Legacy of swami Vivekananda

Vedanta formulates, not universal brotherhood, but universal oneness. (VIII. 129)

Vedanta teaches the God that is in everyone, has become everyone and everything. (VIII. 125)

The one central ideal of Vedanta is this oneness. (II. 297)

The Vedanta says, there is nothing that is not God. (II. 321)

The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in everyone of us. (VIII. 126)

Not only is Vedanta the highest philosophy in the world, but it is the greatest poem. (I. 499)

The Vedanta does not in reality denounce the world. (II. 146)

This Vedanta philosophy is not the outcome of meditation in the forest only. (II. 292)

The Vedanta was (and is) the boldest system of religion. (II. 113-14)

The Vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. (II. 295)

The ideal of Vedanta is to know man as he really is. (II. 325)

Weakness has got to go before a man dares to become a Vedantist. (III. 386)

The first step for the pure Vedantist is to be Abhih, fearless. (III. 386)

Whether we are conscious of it or not, we think the Vedanta, we live in the Vedanta, we breathe the Vedanta, and we die in the Vedanta, and every Hindu does that. (III. 323)

The principles of religion that are in the Vedanta are unchangeable. (III. 121)

The Vedanta only can be the universal religion. (III. 250)

This Vedanta, the philosophy of the Upanishads, I would make bold to state, has been the first as well as the final thought on the spiritual plane that has ever been vouchsafed to man. (III. 322)

Vedanta in its highest form can alone spiritualize their social aspirations. (IV. 316)

The Vedanta philosophy is the foundation of Buddhism and everything else in India. (V. 279)

Our Vedanta is the assertion of freedom always. (V. 288)

The idea of the Vedanta is to harmonize all. (V. 279)

The Vedanta has no quarrel with Buddhism. (V. 279)

That plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah. (V. 217)

The Vedanta is the rationale of all religions. (V. 212)

Without the Vedanta every religion is superstition; with it everything becomes religion. (V. 212)

Vedanta declares that religion is here and now. (VI. 13)

I am a Vedantist; Sachchidananda—Existence- Knowledge-Bliss Absolute—is my God. (VI. 311)

Vedantism teaches that there is but one existence and one thing real, and that is God. (III. 536)

A real Vedantist must sympathize with all. (VII. 28)

Vedas

There is no new religious idea preached anywhere which is not found in the Vedas. (VI. 105)

The Vedas are the only exponent of the universal religion. (VI. 181)

Veda means the sum total of eternal truths. (VI. 496)

Veda is of the nature of Shabda or of idea. (VI. 496)

All that is called knowledge is in the Vedas. (II. 169)

We are all brothers in the Vedas. (III. 373)

The Vedas are, in fact, the oldest sacred books in the world. (VI. 47)

Vice

Whatever retards the onward progress or helps the downward fall is vice; whichever helps in coming up and becoming harmonized is virtue. (IV. 357)

Vivekananda

I base my teaching on the great Vedantic truth of the sameness and omnipresence of the Soul of the Universe. (III. 194)

My religion means expansion, and expansion means realization and perception in the highest sense—no mumbling words or genuflections. (I. 332)

My stay—my guide in life—my refuge—my friend— my teacher—my God—my real Self, Thou wilt never leave me, never. (VI. 303)

My motto is to learn whatever good things I may come across anywhere. (VI. 234)

Only one kind of work I understand, and that is doing good to others; all else is doing evil. (VI. 310-11)

I like boldness and adventure and my race stands in need of that spirit very much. (VIII. 531)

I am the Advaitist; our goal is knowledge—no feelings, no love, as all that belongs to matter and superstition and bondage. (VIII. 525)

For all time my head shall bend low in reverence wherever I see greatness, broadness of heart, and holiness. (VI. 210)

I see clear as daylight that there is the one Brahman in all, in them and me—one Shakti dwells in all. The only difference is of manifestation. (VII. 246)

Individuality is my motto. (VII. 487)

I seek no help. I reject none. (VII. 487)

I only say, awake, awake! (VII. 501)

I will stand by you unto death whether you work for India or not, whether you give up Vedanta or remain in it. (VII. 512)

My hope of the future lies in the youths of character— intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient—who can sacrifice their lives in working out my ideas and thereby do good to themselves and the country at large. (VII. 230)

Mother’s grace, Mother’s blessings are all paramount to me. (VII. 484)

My ideal indeed can be put into a few words and that is : to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life. (VII. 501)

Come what may, I must attain my ideal first. (VII. 126)

Come what may, I shall not forget my duty, whether the world remains or dissolves—these are the words of a great hero. (VII. 226)

I am born to proclaim to them that fearless message— ‘Arise, Awake !’ (VII. 182)

I hate only one thing in the world—hypocrisy. (VII. 465)

I have found the pearl for which I dived into the ocean of life. (VIII. 538)

Alone and drifting about in the will-current of the Mother has been my whole life. (VIII. 517)

I am attaining peace that passeth understanding, which is neither joy nor sorrow, but something above them both. (VIII. 504)

‘I reject the Vedas!’ is the last word of the Vedanta philosophy. (VIII. 255)

I have never retreated in a fight. (VIII. 430)

I want my work to be quick like lightning, and firm as adamant. (VIII. 430)

‘India, with all thy faults I love thee still.’ (VIII. 327)

I am doing the Lord’s work, and wherever He leads I follow. (VIII. 328)

I love my God, my religion, my country. (VIII. 331)

I love the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden, I feel for them—the Lord knows how much. (VIII. 331)

Only let me be perfectly pure, perfectly sincere, and perfectly unselfish. (VIII. 336)

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. (VIII. 366)

I shall have one man only to follow me, but he must be true and faithful unto death. (VIII. 372)

I do not care for success or no success. (VIII. 372)

I must keep my movement pure or I will have none. (VIII. 372)

When I think ‘I am Brahman’, then I alone exist. (VIII. 385)

You need not be afraid, I do not work alone, but He is always with me. (VIII. 397)

In my eyes this world is mere play—and it will always remain as such. (VIII. 431)

I am a man of action. (VIII. 431)

I am the child of the Divine Mother, the source of all power and strength. (VIII. 432)

To me, cringing, fawning, whining, degrading inertia and hell are one and the same thing. (VIII. 432)

I pray that I may not have to die a coward. (VIII. 432)

I am in a tremendous hurry, I want to work at hurricane speed, and I want fearless hearts. (VIII. 432)

Work I want—I don’t want any humbug. (VIII. 439)

I want work, I want vigour—no matter who lives or dies. (VIII. 469)

My mission is to obey and work. He knows the rest. (VIII. 501)

‘The greatest thing I can obtain is my Self.’ (VIII. 504)

‘I am free’, therefore I require none else for my happiness. (VIII. 504)

‘Alone through eternity, because I was free, am free, and will remain free for ever.’ (VIII. 504-05)

‘Alone, alone, I am the one without a second.’ (VIII. 505)

I have no good to attain, no ideal to clench up to, no ambition to fulfil; I, the diamond mine, am playing with pebbles, good and evil. (VIII. 505)

I am Peace that passeth understanding; understanding only gives us good or evil. (VIII. 505)

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual. (VIII. 118)

My first reverence is to the guru. (VIII. 112)

My dearest and nearest relative in life is my guru. (VIII. 112)

Let character be formed and then I shall be in your midst. (VI. 293)

Even if a thousand births have to be taken in order to relieve the sorrows of the world, surely I will take them. (VI. 502)

May the Lord break the bondage of all—may all come out of Maya—is the constant prayer of Vivekananda. (VI. 359)

My idea is to bring to the door of the meanest, the poorest, the noble ideas that the human race has developed both in and out of India, and let them think for themselves. (V. 28-29)

Whatever I do, I try my best to avoid publicity. (V. 25)

I am a hater of celebrity. (V. 21)

Day by day I am feeling that the Lord is with me, and I am trying to follow His direction. (V. 23)

I may perish of cold or hunger in this land, but I bequeath to you, young men, this sympathy, this struggle for the poor, the ignorant, the oppressed. (V. 16)

I must stick to my guns, life, or death. (V. 12)

I am determined, and I have a call from Above; I see no way, but His eyes see. (V. 12)

‘I look upon religion as the innermost core of edu-cation.’ (V. 231)

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. (V. 223)

I consider that the great national sin is the neglect of the masses, and that is one of the causes of our downfall. (V. 222)

I believe the Indian nation is by far the most moral and religious nation in the whole world. (V. 220)

My watchword is construction, not destruction. (V. 217)

Since I have nothing whatever to do with ritual or dogma; my mission is to show that religion is everything and in everything. (V. 202)

I call upon men to make themselves conscious of their divinity within. (V. 187-88)

I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine. (V. 187)

My teaching is antagonistic to none. (V. 187)

Know this for certain that my love can never cease. (V. 161)

The power behind me is not Vivekananda but He the Lord, and He knows best. (V. 137)

May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls—and above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship. (V. 137)

My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. (V. 100)

What I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made. (V. 117)

I have a truth to teach, I, the child of God. (V. 93)

Fear not, my soul ! Be alone. (V. 72)

Be still, my soul ! Be alone ! and the Lord is with you. (V. 72)

The present looks very gloomy indeed; but I am a fighter and must die fighting, not give way. (VI. 420)

My resolve is something like either to lay down my life or realize my ideal. (VI. 216)

May I never, never seek for help from any being but Thee. (VI. 303)

My idea and all my life with it—and to God for help; to none else! (VI. 302)

Whether I live or die, whether I go Backto India or not, remember this specially, that universality—perfect acceptance, not tolerance only—we preach and perform. (VI. 285)

I (Vivekananda) am not the standard of the universe. (I. 66)

I may die here unsuccessful; another will take up the task. (V. 17)

Let the world come, the hells come, the gods come, let Mother come, I fight and do not give in. (VI. 421)

My salutation goes to the feet of the good, the saintly, and to the feet of the wicked and the devilish! (II. 34)

I believe in reason and follow reason. (II. 336)

I do not believe in reform; I believe in growth. (III. 213)

Theirs is the method of destruction, mine is that of construction. (III. 213)

My idea is growth, expansion, development on national lines. (III. 195)

I want the intensity of the fanatic plus the extensity of the materialist. (III. 174)

I am the teacher of virtue, not of sin. (III. 240)

I glory in being the preacher of light, and not of darkness. (III. 240)

I do not want a crowd. (IV. 58)

Struggle, struggle, was my motto for the last ten years. Struggle, still say I. (IV. 367)

Sri Ramakrishna used to say, ‘As long as I live, so long do I learn.’ (IV. 477)

Let me die a true Sannyasin as my master did, heedless of money, of women, and of fame. (V. 413)

Know for certain that the work done by me is not the work of Vivekananda, it is His work—the Lord’s own work ! (V. 358)

God of Truth, be Thou alone my guide ! (V. 71)

I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God. (V. 414)

Fear is the greatest sin my religion teaches. (V. 71)

I shall work incessantly until I die, and even after death I shall work for the good of the world. (V. 64)

I am poor, I love the poor. (V. 58)

I believe in helping the miserable. (V. 52)

I believe in going even to hell to save others. (V. 52)

I believe in God and I believe in man. (V. 52)

However sublime be the theories, however well-spun may be the philosophy—I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas. (V. 50)

I do not believe in a God or religion which cannot wipe the widow’s tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan’s mouth. (V. 50)

My whole ambition in life is to set in motion a machinery which will bring noble ideas to the door of everybody, and then let men and women settle their own fate. (V. 29)

Purity, perseverance and energy—these three I want. (VI. 342)

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July 20, 2019

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