Saturday, August 24, 2024
NATURE'S JUSTICE IS UNIFORMLY STERN AND UNRELENTING
Saturday, August 17, 2024
MYSTERY - MONGERING WEAKENS THE HUMAN BRAIN
Sunday, March 17, 2024
FAITH, I WAIT UPON FAITH, COME WHAT MAY
Sunday, December 31, 2023
IT LAYS NO RESPONSIBILITY ON LITTLE GODS
Sunday, January 8, 2023
Saturday, October 1, 2022
WORLD STANDS AGAINST YOU SWORD IN HAND
Thursday, May 5, 2022
COMMON RUN OF MEN
Won’t you do something to show that you are in any way removed from the common run of men?”
- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XLV Brothers
Monday, February 22, 2021
WHO HAS EVER BECOME GREAT
Brought up in the lap of luxury, lying on a bed of roses, and never shedding a tear, who has ever become great, who has ever unfolded the Brahman within ?
- Swami Vivekananda
[ Letters of Swami Vivekananda - Page 445 ]
Saturday, November 28, 2020
AVOID ALL MYSTERY
" What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. Mystery mongering and superstition are always signs of weakness "
- Swami Vivekananda
Saturday, November 14, 2020
MOUNTAINS CAN BE CRUSHED TO ATOMS
" Through concentration of mind everything can be accomplished - even mountains can be crushed to atoms. Concentration is the means through which we can gain anything and everything, mental, moral, or spiritual. "
- Swami Vivekananda
( Vol.7. Page 138 & Vol 1 page 291 )
Thursday, November 5, 2020
I WANT SAPPERS AND MINERS IN THE ARMY OF RELIGION
I WANT SAPPERS AND MINERS IN THE ARMY OF RELIGION
I want sappers and miners in the army of religion. So, boys, set yourselves to the task of training your muscles. For ascetics, mortification is all right, for workers, well - developed bodies, muscles of iron and nerves of steel
- Swami Vivekananda
Monday, November 2, 2020
FIRE OF SPIRITUALITY
" It is in the nature of things that many should fall, that troubles should arise, that tremendous difficulties should arise, that selfishness and all the other devils in the human heart should struggle hard, when they are about to be driven out by the fire of spirituality. The road to the good is the roughest and steepest in the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed,; no wonder that so many succeed; no wonder that so many fall. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles"
- Swami Vivekananda
( Vol 8 383 )
Sunday, November 1, 2020
THE WORD OF POWER
" Out of purity and silence comes the word of power "
- Swami Vivekananda
Vol 8. Page 32
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
DARE TO GO AS FAR AS YOUR THOUGHT LEADS
" If we have known the Âtman as It is, if we have known that there is nothing else but this Atman, that everything else is but a dream, with no existence in reality, then this world with its poverties, its miseries, its wickedness, and its goodness will cease to disturb us. If they do not exist, for whom and for what shall we take trouble? This is what the Jnana-Yogis teach. Therefore, dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. It is very hard to come to Jnâna. It is for the bravest and most daring, who dare to smash all idols, not only intellectual, but in the senses "
Swami Vivekananda
Saturday, October 17, 2020
DID HE NOT DEFINE LIFE
Did he ( Swami Vivekananda ) not define life as " the tendency of the unfolding and development of a being under circumstances tending to press it down " ? - Swami Vivekananda ( April 1891: Interview with the Maharaja of Khetri. )
Sunday, June 7, 2020
One cannot divide the rights of universe. To talk of " right " implies limitation. It is not " right " but " responsibility ". Each is responsible for the evil anywhere in the world. No one can separate himself from his brother. All that unites with the universal is virtue; all that separates I'd sin. You are a part of the Infinite. This is your nature. Hence you are your brother's keeper.
- Swami Vivekananda
Page 83, Vol 6, CW of Swami Vivekananda
Sunday, May 17, 2020
There is no allegiance possible where there is no character in the leader, and perfect purity ensures the most lasting allegiance and confidence.
Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and sun will rise for you "
Swami Vivekananda
Page 135, Vol 6 Complete works of Swami Vivekananda
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Saturday, August 26, 2017
BUT YOU MUST NOT SACRIFICE YOUR OWN FAITH
Give up jealousy and conceit. Learn to work unitedly for others. This is the great need of our country.
Yours with blessings,
Vivekananda.
Swami Vivekananda
Page 224
Book: - Letters of Swami Vivekananda
Sunday, August 20, 2017
FIFTY CENTURIES ARE LOOKING ON YOU, THE FUTURE OF INDIA DEPENDS ON YOU
Take Care! Beware of everything that is untrue, stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly but surely. Work on as if I never existed. Work as if one each of you depended the whole work.
Fifty centuries are looking on you, the future of India depends on you.
Work On...
Swami Vivekananda
Letters of Swami Vivekananda
Page 175
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Leaf – Counters
Saturday, August 22, 2015
WHENEVER VIRTUE SUBSIDES AND IMMORALITY PREVAILS, THEN I COME AGAIN AND AGAIN TO HELP THE WORLD
Sunday, August 9, 2015
LOOK HERE - WE SHALL ALL DIE!!
We began to think, but could not make out what he wanted us to say. As none put forth any reply, he exclaimed in his inspiriting language:
" Look here - we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then, only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting, from you. "
- Swami Vivekananda
( THINK OF DEATH ALWAYS AND NEW LIFE WILL COME WITHIN - WORK FOR OTHERS - GOD THE LAST REFUGE )
Page: - 497 - Talks with Swami Vivekananda
Sunday, July 12, 2015
HOW THEN CAN WE FIND THE PATH TO LIBERTY ?
- Swami Vivekananda
The life of Vivekananda And The Universal Gospel - Romain Rolland - Page 150
Saturday, June 27, 2015
TO HURL ONESELF UPON THE SWORD'S POINT
" Fools!" he exclaimed once - as he dwelt in quiet talk on " The worship of the Terrible, " on " becoming one with the Terrible " - " Fools! they put a garland of skulls round Thy neck, and then start back in terror, and call Thee " the Merciful"!". And as he spoke, the underlying egoism of worship that is devoted to the kind God, to Providence, the consoling Divinity, without a heart for God in the earthquake, or God in the volcano, overwhelmed the listener. One saw that such worship was at bottom, as the Hindu calls it, merely " Shop- keeping, " and one realised the infinitely greater boldness and truth of the teaching that God manifests through evil as well as through good. One saw that the true attitude for the mind and will that are not to be baffled by the mind and will that are not to be baffled by the personal self, was in fact the determination, in the stern words of the Swami Vivekananda, ' to seek death not life, to hurl oneself upon the sword's point, to be come one with the Terrible for evermore!"
- Swami Vivekananda
Page 136, The Master As I Saw Him - Sister Nivedita
Sunday, May 31, 2015
THE REAL WORKING FORCE OF ALL GREAT WORK IS IN ITS ALMOST UNPERCEIVED BEGINNINGS
- Swami Vivekananda
ON PROFESSOR MAX MÜLLER
(Written for the Brahmâvadin, from London, June 6, 1896.)
Saturday, May 23, 2015
WORK, WORSHIP, AND JNANA - FIRST WORK, AND YOUR MIND WILL BE PURIFIED
- Swami Vivekananda
(March or April?) 1894. The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/LV Akhandananda
Sunday, May 17, 2015
THE WILL OF THE TOTALITY NOTHING CAN RESIST
And then he went off into a musing on Kali.
" I am not one of those, he chanted, " Who put the garland of skulls, round Thy neck, " And then look back in terror" And call Thee " The Merciful"!
" The heart must become a burical ground,
" Pride, selfishess, and desire all broken into dust,
" Then and then alone will the Mother dance there ! "
" I love terror for its own sake, " He went on, " Despair for its own sake, misery for its own sake. Fight always. Fight and fight on, though always in defeat, That's the ideal. That's the ideal. "
" The totality of all souls, not the human alone, " He said once, " Is the Personal God. The will of the Totality nothing can resist. It is what we know as Law. And this is what we mean by Shiva and Kali " and so on.
- Swami Vivekananda
[ The Master As I Saw Him ]
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Saturday, February 14, 2015
I KNOW MY MISSION IN LIFE, AND NO CHAUVINISM ABOUT ME
...I am surprised you take so seriously the missionaries nonsense.....If the people in India want me to keep strictly to my Hindu diet, Please tell them to send me a cook and money enough to keep him. This silly bossism without a mite of real help makes me laugh. On the other hand, if the missionaries tell you that I have even broken the two great vows of the Sannyasin - chastity and poverty - tell them that they are big liars. Please write to the missionary Hume asking him categorically to write you what mis demeanour he saw in me, or give you the names of his informants, and whether the information was first-hand or not; that will settle the question and expose the whole thing.....
As for me, mind you, I stand at nobody's dictation. I know my mission in life, and no chauvinism about me; I belong as much to India as to the world, no humbug about that, I have helped you all I could. You must now help yourselves. What country has any special claim on me ? Am I any nation's slave ? Don't talk any more silly nonsense, you faithless atheists.
- Swami Vivekananda
Page 257 - Letters of Swami Vivekananda
Sunday, January 25, 2015
NATURE IS CONQUERED BY MAN EVERY DAY
- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 2/Practical Vedanta and other lectures/The Goal
Saturday, December 27, 2014
MOTION IS THE SIGN OF LIFE
I am thoroughtly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others, and whenever such an attempt has been made under false ideas of greatness, policy, or holiness, the result has always been disastrous to the secluding one. The fact of our isolation from all the other nations of the world is the cause of our degeneration, and its only remedy is getting back into the current of the world. Motion is the sign of life.
- Swami Vivekananda
( Quoted in The discovery of India, p, 402 )
Saturday, December 6, 2014
IN THE MIDST OF ALL MISERIES AND ALL WEAKNESS
- Swami Vivekananda
To The Brave Youth - Page 151
Saturday, November 1, 2014
ಅಕ್ಕಿಯೊಳಗನ್ನವನು ಮೊದಲಾರು ಕಂಡವನು? । - DVG - Mankutimma 655
ಅಕ್ಕರದ ಬರಹಕ್ಕೆ ಮೊದಲಿಗನದಾರು? ॥
ಲೆಕ್ಕವಿರಿಸಿಲ್ಲ ಜಗ ತನ್ನಾದಿಬಂಧುಗಳ ।
ದಕ್ಕುವುದೆ ನಿನಗೆ ಜಸ? – ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ॥ ೬೫೫ ॥
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Who was the first inventor to discover rise inside paddy?
Who was first to write using alphabets?
World has not keep accounts of its (previous) lineage!
Will you get that fame {which was not bestowed even to these...}? – Mankutimma 655
Sunday, October 19, 2014
ಏನು ಜೀವನದರ್ಥ? ಏನು ಪ್ರಪಂಚಾರ್ಥ? । Mankutimma - 4
What is it ? Is Logic testament?
KEEP ASIDE FOR THE PRESENT THE VRINDAVAN ASPECT OF SHRI KRISHNA
- Swami Vivekananda
Page 250 - To The Brave Youth.
ಭಾವದಾವೇಶದಿಂ ಮನವಶ್ವದಂತಿರಲಿ । Mankutimma DVG - 543
ಧೀವಿವೇಚನೆಯದಕೆ ದಕ್ಷರಾಹುತನು ॥
ತೀವಿದೊಲವಿನ ದಂಪತಿಗಳಾಗಿ ಮನಬುದ್ಧಿ ।
Saturday, September 27, 2014
ಗ್ರಹಗತಿಯ ತಿದ್ದುವನೆ ಜೋಯಿಸನು ಜಾತಕದಿ? । - 366 - Mankutimma - DVG
ವಿಹಿತವಾಗಿಹುದದರ ಗತಿ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿ ವಿಧಿಯಿಂ ॥
ಸಹಿಸಿದಲ್ಲದೆ ಮುಗಿಯದಾವ ದಶೆ ಬಂದೊಡಂ ।
ಸಹನೆ ವಜ್ರದ ಕವಚ - ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ॥ ೩೬೬ ॥
Will an astrologer rearrange placement of planets in a horoscope?
Planet movement is governed by destiny of nature.
Irrespective of change in astrological time cycles, nothing is completed without forbearance….Patience is the only impregnable [diamond] armor - Mankutimma - 366
ಬದುಕು ಕದನವೆಂದಂಜಿ ಬಿಟ್ಟೋಡುವನು । Mankutimma - 598 DVG
ಬಿದಿಯ ಬಾಯಿಗೆ ಕವಳವಾಗದುಳಿಯುವನೆ? ॥
ಎದೆಯನುಕ್ಕಾಗಿಸುತ, ಮತಿಗದೆಯ ಪಿಡಿದು, ನೀ- ।
ನೆದುರು ನಿಲೆ ಬಿದಿಯೊಲಿವ – ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ॥ ೫೯೮ ॥
If retreating from life considering it to be a battle, will he escape from clutches of destiny?
For destinies reverential acceptance, one should face it with club of intellectual wisdom in ones hand and an iron heart - Mankutimma - 598
Sunday, September 14, 2014
FAITH, I WAIT UPON FAITH, COME WHAT MAY
Therefore, go on knowing you are to finish this very moment. Struggle hard, and then, if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let world praise or blame you, let all the wealth of the earth come to your feet, or let you be made the poorest on earth, let death come this moment or hundreds of years hence, swerve not from the path you have taken. All good thoughts are immortal and go to make Buddhas and Christs.
- Swami Vivekananda
Page 30 - Swami Vivekananda and His Work by Swami Abhedananda
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Sunday, August 31, 2014
THIS IS A VERY LARGE ORDER - THE PLAN OF WORK
I must frankly state that in my life - long experience in the work, I have always found " Occultism " injurious and weakening to humanity. What we want is strength. We Indians, more than any other race, want strong and vigorous thought. We have enough of the superfine in all concerns. For centuries we have been stuffed with the mysterious; the result is that our intellectual and spiritual digestion is almost hopelessly impaired, and the race has been dragged down to the depths of hopeless imbecility - never before or since experienced by any other civilised community. There must be freshness and vigour of thougth behind to make a virile race. More than enough to strengthen the whole world exists in the Upanishads. The Adviata is the enternal mine of strength. But it requires to be applied. It must first be cleared of the incrustation of scholasticism, and then in all its simplicity, beauty and sublimity be taught over the length and breadth of the land, as applied even to the minutest detail of daily life.
" This is a very large order" ; but we must work towards it, nevertheless, as if it would be accomplished tomorrow. Of one thing I am sure - that whoever wants to help his fellow beings through genuine love and unselfishness will work wonders. "
- Swami Vivekananda
[ Page 284 - The Plan of Work - Swami Vivekananda ON HIMSELF ]
Saturday, August 16, 2014
MEANS ARE WANTING IN THIS COUNTRY
Sunday, July 27, 2014
MYSTERY - MONGERING WEAKENS THE HUMAN BRAIN
- Swami Vivekananda
Volume 1, Raja-Yoga
Sunday, June 1, 2014
NOT TO SHIRK OUR DUTIES, BUT TO TAKE THEM UP MANFULLY
Therefore Krishna teaches us not to shirk our duties, but to take them up manfully, and not think of the result. The servant has no right to question. The soldier has no right to reason. Go forward, and do not pay too much attention to the nature of the work you have to do. Ask your mind if you are unselfish. If you are, never mind anything, nothing can resist you! Plunge in! Do the duty at hand. And when you have done this, by degrees you will realise the Truth: "Whosoever in the midst of intense activity finds intense peace, whosoever in the midst of the greatest peace finds the greatest activity, he is a Yogi, he is a great soul, he has arrived at perfection."
Now, you see that the result of this teaching is that all the duties of the world are sanctified. There is no duty in this world which we have any right to call menial: and each man's work is quite as good as that of the emperor on his throne.
- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 4/Lectures and Discourses/The Great Teachers of the World
Friday, May 23, 2014
ADJUST THE MICROCOSM - HYDROSTATIC PARADOX
The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe. We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 7/Inspired Talks/Wednesday, July 3
Saturday, May 17, 2014
THE HIGHEST MEN ARE CALM, SILENT AND UNKNOWN
In the life of Gautama Buddha we notice him constantly saying that he is the twenty-fifth Buddha. The twenty-four before him are unknown to history, although the Buddha known to history must have built upon foundations laid by them. The highest men are calm, silent and unknown.
They are the men who really know the power of thought; they are sure that, even if they go into a cave and close the door and simply think five true thoughts and then pass away, these five thoughts of their will live through eternity. Indeed such thoughts will penetrate through the mountains, cross the oceans, and travel through the world. They will enter deep into human hearts and brains and raise up men and women who will give them practical expression in the workings of human life. These Sâttvika men are too near the Lord to be active and to fight, to be working, struggling, preaching and doing good, as they say, here on earth to humanity.
- Swami Vivekananda
Chapter - VII - Freedom
Friday, April 18, 2014
IS MAN A TINY BOAT IN A TEMPEST ?
" Hear, ye childern of immortal bliss! Even ye that reside in higher spheres! I have found the Ancient One who is beyond all darkness, all delusion: knowing Him alone you shall be saved from death over again. "
" Children of immortal bliss" - what a sweet, what a hopeful name! Allow me to call you, brethren, by that sweet name - heirs of immortal bliss - yea, the Hindu refuses to call you sinners. Ye are children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye divinities on earth - sinners! It is a sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel on human nature. Come up, O lions, shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not your servant of matter "
- Swami Vivekananda
Page 339, Universal Message of the Bhagavad Gita - An exposition of the Gita in the light of Modern Thought and Modern Needs, Volume 1 - Swami Ranganathananda
Friday, April 11, 2014
IF YOU ARE STRONG, TAKE UP THE VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY AND BE INDEPENDENT
- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/Krishna