Swami Vivekananda

No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.

Swami Vivekananda

Nothing else is necessary but these – love, sincerity, and patience.

Swami Vivekananda

Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

Swami Vivekananda

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

Swami Vivekananda

Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice.

Swami Vivekananda

Realisation is real religion, all the rest is only preparation – hearing lectures, or reading books, or reasoning is merely preparing the ground; it is not religion.

Swami Vivekananda

Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the real.

Swami Vivekananda

Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera’s wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.

Swami Vivekananda

Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God’s air.

Swami Vivekananda

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.

Swami Vivekananda