Swami Vivekananda

By Srinivas Vikram

Quotes of Swami Vivekananda
Every Indian's chest rises triumphantly with proud by hearing this name.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jun 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781621428497

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DIVINITY OF MAN

My ideal, indeed can be put into a few wordsand that is : To preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every moment of their life.

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifestthis divinity within by controlling nature, external andinternal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychiccontrol, or philosophy – by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines ordogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, arebut secondary details.

Everything that is strong and good and powerfulin human nature is the outcome of that divinity,and though potential in many, there is no difference between man and man essentially, all being alike divine.

All power is within you… Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak… Stand up and express the divinity within you.

We are the children of the Almighty, we aresparks of the infinite divine fire. How can we be nothings? We are everything, ready to do everything; we can do everything, and man must do everything.

Our power, and blessedness, and wisdom, cannotbut grow into the Infinite. Infinite power andexistence and blessedness are ours, and we havenot to acquire them; they are our own, and we have only to manifest them.

Manifest the divinity within you, andeverything will be harmoniouslyarranged around it.

Infinite perfection is in every man, thoughunmanifested. Every man has in him the potentialityof attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, ….. or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realize it…. It can be done; but he does not believe it.

To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

Infinite knowledge abides within everyone in the fullest measure. You are not really ignorant, though you may appear to be so… You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must.

This Atman is the same in all, there is only a difference of manifestation in different individuals. Try to manifest this Atman, and you will see your intellect penetrating into all subjects… With the manifestation of the Atman you will find that science, philosophy, and everything will be easily mastered.

Arise, awake, sleep no more; within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.

Man stands on the glory of his own soul, the infinite, the eternal, the deathless - that soul which no instruments can pierce, which no air can dry, no fire can burn, no water can melt, the infinite, the birthless, the deathless, without beginning and without end, before whose glory space melts away into nothingness and time vanishes into non – existence. This glorious soul we must believe in. Out of that will come power.

The infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a god.

Believe, therefore, in yourselves, and if you want material wealth, work it out; it will come to you. If you want to be intellectual, work it out on the intellectual plane, and intellectual giants you shall be. And if you want to attain to freedom, work it out on the spiritual plane, and free you shall be and shall enter into