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
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals
The ignorant man never enjoys.
The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.
The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior.
The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.
The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.
Only man makes Karma.
Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!
Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.
Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end.
Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.
Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.