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
And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.
As the cause is, so the effect will be.
When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.
We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.
The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form
The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects.
The law of Karma is the law of causation.
The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.
The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.
The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.
The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result.
Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing.