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
There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.
The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.
The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.
The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.
Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.
Whatever you think, that you will be.
...never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.
When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.
We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra.
. . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .
The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.