Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Swami Vivekananda was a key figure in introducing Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, known for his impactful speeches and writings.

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Born
January 12, 1863
Died
January 19, 1902
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"We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes."

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"We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?"

Uplifting Country Believe
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"What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the Self alone that predominates, and not matter."

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"Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go."

Motivational New Life Vigor
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"Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction."

Motivational Running Mind
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"Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman."

Motivational People West
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"We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men."

Motivational Men Feet
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"We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so - and - so and Mr. so - and - so. But all nature is giving this delusion the lie every moment. I am not that little man or little woman cut off from all else; I am the one universal existence. The soul in its own majesty is rising up every moment and declaring its own intrinsic Divinity."

Motivational Lying Ignorance
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"The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes."

Pariahs Educated Castes
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""Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times."

Kings Order India
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"All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative."

Growth Progress Degradation
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"Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault."

Faults Right Now
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"The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the minds of every nation, not through writings, but through persons."

Writing Mind Principles
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"The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause."

World Causes Internals
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"The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result."

Causes Infinite Good Work
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"Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing."

Causes Made Effects
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"All is bound by the law of causation"

Law Causes Causation
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"What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state."

Causes States Fine
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"This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your mind, is within Maya; for everything that is bound by the laws of time, space, and causation is within Maya."

Law Names Ideas
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"There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve."

Matter Form Results
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