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
Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.
Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.
We must get out of materialism.
To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.
The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.
No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.
Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.
Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.
The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man
IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for loves sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward - love unselfishly for loves sake.
When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankind, and not before.
Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man