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
We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.
We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.
This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.
Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.
There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.
There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols.
The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.
The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.
The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.
The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.
The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.
The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.
The body cannot be the soul.