Meditation by swami vivekananda biography in english

Key Works Of Swami Vivekananda

Key Works On Swami Vivekananda

Quotes From Swami Vivekananda

“Religion is not in books, nor in theories, nor in dogmas, nor in talking, not even in reasoning.

You cannot persuade the old man that life is all smooth. A thief came and what did he see in the stump?

Father Vishwanath was a successful attorney with considerable influence in society. The meditative state of mind is declared by the Yogis to be the highest state in which the mind exists. He went on to describe the principles of Vedanta and their spiritual significance, putting Hinduism on the map of World Religions.

He spent the next two and a half years in America and founded the Vedanta Society of New York in 1894.

He became associated with Brahmo Movement led by Keshab Chandra Sen, for some time. . You do not worship the spirit nor something that you can understand. It is a tremendous play played by the Yogis. If you try to distinguish which is your mind and which is the world — there is no such distinction. [But] none can be as powerful as God.

If one [liberated soul] said, “I will make this planet go this way”, and another said, “I will make it go that way”, [there would be confusion].

Don’t you make this mistake! During this spiritual crisis, Vivekananda first heard about Sri Ramakrishna from William Hastie, the Principal of the Scottish Church College.

Earlier, to satisfy his intellectual quest for God, Narendranath visited prominent spiritual leaders from all religions, asking them a single question, “Have you seen God?” Each time he came away without a satisfying answer.

That is the difficulty. All our fears, all worries, anxieties, troubles, mistakes, weakness, evil, are front that one great blunder — that we are bodies. You are dropping stones upon the smooth surface of a lake. … Work a little harder, more and more, and meditation comes. Vivekananda emphasized the points of drawbacks of western culture and the contribution of India to overcome those.

There is the musk deer with fragrance inside, and he does not know where the fragrance [comes from]. If we cannot reach the Absolute, we will get somewhere, and it will be better than we are now.

Meditation consists in this practice [of dissolving every thing into the ultimate Reality — spirit]. The young monk and his teachings have been an inspiration to many, and his words have become goals of self-improvement especially for the youth of the country.

The man is simply a wonder for oratorical power.