Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda Quotes

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Vedanta Philosophy: Lectures by the Swami Vivekananda on Raja Yoga Also Pantanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, with Commentaries, and Glossary of Sanskrit Terms

“The human mind is like that monkey, incessantly active by its own nature; then it becomes drunk with the wine of desire, thus increasing its turbulence. After desire takes possession comes the sting of the scorpion of jealousy at the success of others, and last of all the demon of pride enters the mind, making it think itself of all importance.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“When the body is sufficiently controlled, we can attempt the manipulation of the mind.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“When you step beyond thought and intellect and all reasoning, then you have made the first step towards God; and that is the beginning of life.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these -- and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“Who is the seer? The Self of man, the Purusha. What is the scene? The whole of nature beginning with the mind, down to gross matter.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“We can read all the Vedas, and yet will not realize anything, but when we practice their teachings, then we attain to that state which realizes what the scriptures say, which penetrates where neither reason nor perception nor inference can go, and where the testimony of others cannot avail.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“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, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“When by analyzing his own mind, man comes face to face, as it were, with something which is never destroyed, something which is, by its own nature, eternally pure and perfect, he will no more be miserable, no more unhappy.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“The man who thinks that he is receiving response to his prayers does not know that the fulfillment comes from his own nature, that he has succeeded by the mental attitude of prayer in waking up a bit of this infinite power which is coiled up within himself. What, thus, men ignorantly worship under various names, through fear and tribulation, the Yogi declares to the world to be the real power coiled up in every being, the mother of eternal happiness, if we but know how to approach her. And Raja-Yoga is the science of religion, the rationale of all worship, all prayers, forms, ceremonies, and miracles.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“When this Sushumna current opens, and begins to rise, we get beyond the senses, our minds become supersensuous, superconscious -- we get beyond even the intellect,”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot. The master of the household, the King, the Self of man, is sitting in this chariot.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“If the subject is a good one, we shall feel friendly towards it; if the subject of thought is one that is miserable, we must be merciful towards it. If it is good, we must be glad; if it is evil, we must be indifferent.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“There is nothing holier in the world than to keep good company, because the good impressions will then tend to come to the surface.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“Raja-Yoga is the science of religion, the rationale of all worship, all prayers, forms, ceremonies, and miracles.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“metaphysics,”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda

“He who can become mad with an idea, he alone sees light.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga & Patanjali Yoga-Sutra by Swami Vivekananda