Vivekananda's Quote - 27

Even he who has seen only a spook is more spiritual than book learned pundits.

The important thing is how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being. The more you think of yourself as spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free from matter, body and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.

Inspirational!

கிழ்த் தரமான தந்திரங்களால் மகத்தான எதையும் சாதித்து விட முடியாது!

Vivekananda's Quote - 26

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.

Say "So'ham, So'ham" whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly that what we see never existed, that there is only "I". Flash the dream will break! Think day and night, this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

Vivekananda's Quote - 25

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn’t it be better for the pig to lose his pig individuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall I keep?

Vivekananda's Quote - 24

No one should be judged by their defects. The virtues a person has are his especially; his errors are the common weaknesses of humanity and should never be counted in estimating his character.

Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom physical, mental, and spiritual and help others to do so.

Vivekananda's Quote - 23

Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up!

The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent.

As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world, which was the ghastly battlefield of maya, is now changed into something good and beautiful.

Vivekananda's Quote - 22

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and activity, has its seat.

We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.

Vivekananda's Quote - 21

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

Think day and night, "I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and that which is beyond these is myself."

Bhagavad Gita Quote - 05

The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self; there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.

Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Bhagavad Gita Quote - 04

Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.

Action is greater than inaction. Perform therefore thy task in life. Even the life of the body could not be if there were no action.

When the sage climbs the heights of Yoga, he follows the path of work; but when he reaches the heights of Yoga, he is in the land of peace.

Whenever the mind unsteady and restless strays away from the spirit, let him ever and for ever lead it again to the spirit.

No work stains a man who is pure, who is in harmony, who is master of his life, whose soul is one with the soul of all.