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

IDLE GOSSIP

 " Idle gossip and barren ceremonials won't do " 

- Swami Vivekananda

Vol 6, Page 293

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 )

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

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 )

THE WORD OF POWER

" Out of purity and silence comes the word of power "

- Swami Vivekananda

Vol 8. Page 32

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

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. ) 

RELIGION IS SELF - ABNEGATION

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

ALLEGIANCE AND CONFIDENCE

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