“The mother and the father are the causes of this body; so a man must undergo a thousand troubles in order to do good to them.”
― The complete works of Swami Vivekananda
― The complete works of Swami Vivekananda
“But where the ignorant are asleep, there the sage keeps awake”
― Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
― Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
“Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if you must.”
― Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
― Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
“But there is yet time to change our ways. Give up all those old discussions, old fights about things which are meaningless, which are nonsensical in their very nature. Think of the last six hundred or seven hundred years of degradation when grown-up men by hundreds have been discussing for years whether we should drink a glass of water with the right hand or the left, whether the hand should be washed three times or four times, whether we should gargle five or six times. What can you expect from men who pass their lives in discussing such momentous questions as these and writing most learned philosophies on them! There is a danger of our religion getting into the kitchen. We are neither Vedantists, most of us now, nor Pauranics, nor Tantrics. We are just "Don't-touchists". Our religion is in the kitchen. Our God is the cooking-pot, and our religion is, "Don't touch me, I am holy". If this goes on for another century, every one of us will be in a lunatic asylum. It is a sure sign of softening of the brain when the mind cannot grasp the higher problems of life; all originality is lost, the mind has lost all its strength, its activity, and its power of thought, and just tries to go round and round the smallest curve it can find.”
― The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3
― The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3
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