Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda
Swami VivekanandaBengali: , Shāmi Bibekānondo; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth12 January 1863
CountryIndia
Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another.
There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.
There is no end to renunciation.
Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.
Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
Renunciation is of the mind.
Renunciation is in our blood.
Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.
Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.
No freedom without renunciation.
In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.
Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.
Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti