About Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (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. He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India.
Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He is perhaps best known for his speech which began with the words – “Sisters and brothers of America …,”[10] in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1893.
Swami Vivekananda Quotes
Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
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