1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda


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    If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

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    Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . .

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    Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

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    It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.

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    Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

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