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
Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.
Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.
Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.
Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.
Man is the greatest being that ever can be.
Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.
Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.
Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.
Man is not mind, he is soul.
Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.
Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.
Man is greater than the gods.
Man is a degeneration of what he was.
Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.