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It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves. Swami Vivekananda. Grows. 38 Copy quote. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone.
Swami Vivekananda. God, Spiritual, Soul. Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ.
The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search. Swami Vivekananda. Philosophy, Knowing, Unity.
And he who cannot cook well cannot be a perfect sannyasin. Unless cooking is performed with a pure mind and concentration, the food is not palatable. Swami Vivekananda. Perfect, Cooking, Mind. High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration. Swami Vivekananda. Art, Achievement, Etc.
“Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.165, Vivekananda Kendra There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick - thou art All - in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee."
Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”. Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice. Swami Vivekananda. Essence, Practice, Gita. The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings. Swami Vivekananda.
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries.
None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. Swami Vivekananda. Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual. Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers. Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing ...
Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all pure, omnipotent and omnipresent Atman! Swami Vivekananda. God, Spiritual, Soul. In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul.
That is the one search. Swami Vivekananda. Philosophy, Knowing, Unity. Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes. Swami Vivekananda. Beautiful, Believe, Soul.
