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
Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.
Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.
Differentiation is in name and form only.
Change is inherent in every form.
Anything that is in space has form. Space itself has form. Either you are in space, or space is in you. The soul is beyond all space. Space is in the soul, not the soul in space.
All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".
A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.
A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.
What is this universe but name and form?
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.
We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.
There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
The real man is the one Unit Existence.
The perfect man sees nothing but God.