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1863–1902
Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902) was a teacher of Vedanta philosophy, and one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of Hinduism.
Also known as: Vivekanand swami, Vivekananda, Vivekananda, Swami
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To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Remember, the centre of our national life is not politics or economy but Dharma.
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms.
Swâmi Vivekânanda on Râja Yoga (1899)
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.
If I do an evil action, I must suffer for it; there is no power in this universe to stop or stay it.
Swâmi Vivekânanda on Râja Yoga (1899)
The bird of the spirit of Humanity cannot fly with only one wing.
This form of practice must never even be mentioned in the Math. Ruin shall seize the wicked man, both here and hereafter, who would introduce vile |w:Vamachara|Vamachan]] into his fold.
Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.”
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
The whole of India is Aryan, nothing else.
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
Of one hundred people who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe, get a glimpse of the real truth. Therefore, beware.
Death is better than a vegetating ignorant life; it is better to die on the battle-field than to live a life of defeat.
Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
The Mohammedans use the graves of their saints and martyrs almost in the place of images.
India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.
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