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 seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.
Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.
The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.
Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.
As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.
Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.
We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.
The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.
Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.
In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.
Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.
Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.
Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end.
Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.