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
When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.
The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.
As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.
Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.
The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.
Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.
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.
Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.
We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.