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 highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.
Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it.
It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.
Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time.
The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation.
It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.
It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.
PRAYER is divine love alone. When this highest ideal of love is reached, philosophy is thrown away. Who will then care of it ? Freedom, salvation, nirvana- all are thrown away. Who cares to become free while in the enjoyment of divine love?
Purity,patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all: love.
Let new India arise out of peasants cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
WHY should a man be miserable even here in the reign of a just and merciful God?
Those whose only aim is to barter the energies of life for gold, or name, or any other enjoyment; those to whom the tramp of embattled cohorts is the only manifestation of power; those to whom the enjoyment of the senses is the only bliss that life c