NO COWARDICE

....If these scoldings don't make you brave, I shall have no more hopes of you. I want to see you die even, but you must make a fight. Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

- Swami Vivekananda
21 West 34 St..., New York, 21st November, 1899

I WANT BOLD, DARING, ADVENTUROUS SPIRITS TO HELP ME

The upshot of the whole thing is - I want bold, daring, adventurous spirits to help me. Else I will work alone. I have a mission to fulfil. I will work it out alone. I do not care who comes or who goes.

- Swami Vivekananda

BRAVO, MY COUNTRYMEN!

“.....a year has rolled by, and our countrymen could not even do so much for me as to say to the American people that I was a real Sannyasin and no cheat, and that I represented the Hindu religion. Even this much, the expenditure of a few words, they could not do! Bravo, my countrymen! I love them, Diwanji Saheb. Human help I spurn with my foot. He who has been with me through hills and dales, through deserts or forests, will be with me, I hope; if not, some heroic soul would arise some time or other in India, far abler than myself, and carry it out. So I have told you all about it. Diwanji, excuse my long letter, my noble friend, one of the few who really feel for me, have real kindness for me. You are at liberty, my friend, to think that I am a dreamer, a visionary; but believe at least that I am sincere to the backbone, and my greatest fault is that I love my country only too, too well “
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- Swami Vivekananda
CHICAGO, 20th June, 1894


 

BOOKS AND LEARNING, YOGA AND MEDIATION

" Books and learning, Yoga and mediation and illumination - all are but dust compared with love. It is love that gives you the supernatural powers, love that gives you bhakti, love that gives illumination, and love, again, that leads to emanicpation "

- Swami Vivekananda
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HUMAN HELP I SPURN WITH MY FOOT.

Human help I spurn with my foot. He who has been with me through hills and dales, through deserts or forests, will be with me, I hope; if not some heroic soul would arise some time or other in India, far abler than myself and carry it out.

- Swami Vivekananda
Page 116. Letters of Swami Vivekananda