Teachings of Swami Vivekananda...

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    No man is born to any religion; he has a religion in his own soul.

    --Swami Vivekananda
     
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    All the actions that we see in the world, all
    the movement in human society, all the works
    that we have around us, are simply the
    display of thought, the manifestation of the
    human will... And this will is caused by
    character, and character is manufactured by
    karma. As is karma, so is the manifestation
    of the will.

    Swami Vivekanandaji

    Karma Yoga. New York, 1895. Complete Works, 1: 30.
     
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    "Children of immortal bliss" -- what a sweet, what a hopeful name! Allow me to call you, brethren, by that sweet name -- heirs of immortal bliss -- yea, the Hindu refuses to call you sinners. Ye are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye divinities on earth -- sinners! It is a sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel on human nature. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter."

    - Swami Vivekanandaji
     
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    Have faith in yourselves, great convictions
    are the mothers of great deeds. Onward for
    ever! Sympathy for the poor, the downtrodden,
    even unto death--this is our motto. Onward,
    brave lads!

    Swami Vivekanandaji
    From Chicago. Letter to his disciples in Chennai. January 24, 1894. CW, 5: 30.
     
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    Sometimes I gets tired of japa. Should I
    continue it or read some good book instead?

    Vivekananda: One gets tired of japa
    for two reasons. Sometimes one's brain is
    fatigued, sometimes it is the result of
    idleness. If the former, then one should give
    up japa for the time being, for persistence
    in it at the time results in seeing
    hallucinations, or in lunacy etc. But if the
    latter, the mind should be forced to continue
    japa.

    Selections from the Belur Math Diary. Complete Works, 5: 324
     
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    If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organised religion. They do a hundred times more evil than good, because they stop the growth of each one's individual development.... Religion is only between you and your God, and no third person must come between you. Think what these organised religions have done! What Napoleon was more terrible than those religious persecutions? If you and I organise, we begin to hate every person . It is better not to love, if loving only means hating others. That is no love. That is hell! If loving your own people means hating everybody else, it is the quintessence of selfishness and brutality, and the effect is that it will make you brutes.

    ---Swami Vivekananda
     
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    My brother, no good thing can be done without
    obstruction. It is only those who persevere
    to the end that succeed.

    -Swami Vivekanandaji

    Letter to Alasinga. New York: April 9, 1894. Complete Works, 5:31
     
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    Sorry to break up the quotes, but I must say I love this one alot :)
     
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    ::nods:: I like that one too. :)
     
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    The wisest has talk. Nothing more can be added nor rethrieved.
     
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    Great things can be done only through great
    sacrifices. No selfishness, no name, no fame,
    yours or mine, nor my Master's even! Work,
    work the idea, the plan, my boys, my brave,
    noble, good souls--to the wheel, to the wheel
    put your shoulders! Stop not to look back for
    name, or fame, or any such nonsense. Throw
    self overboard and work. Remember: "The grass
    when made into a rope by being joined
    together can even chain a mad elephant." The
    Lord's blessings on you all! His power be in
    you all--as I believe it is already.

    Swami Vivekanandaji

    Letter to Alasinga. Chicago: May 28, 1894. CW, 5: 34-35
     
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    If we work without any selfish motive in
    view, do we not gain anything? Yes, we do, we
    gain the highest. Unselfishness is more
    paying, only people have not the patience to
    practice it. It is more paying from the point
    of view of health also.

    Swami Vivekanandaji

    Karma Yoga. New York, 1895. Complete Works, 1: 32
     

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