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
Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.
Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.
To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.
Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.
The Yogi must always practice.
Practice makes us what we shall be.
One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.
One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.
My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
Move onward and carry into practice.
It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.
If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.
Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of virtue." He sees God. He becomes God and helps others to become the same. This is all I have to preach. Doctrines have been expounded enough. There are books by the million. Oh, for an ounce of practice!
External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.