Swami Vivekananda Quotes (Author of Raja-Yoga) Swami Vivekananda. To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion. Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902) was a teacher of Vedanta philosophy, and one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of Hinduism. This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive. The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. Quotes[edit] To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. Call to the Nation[edit] Quotes from Vivekananda : His Call to the Nation, Advaita Ashrama ISBN 81-7505-018-7 He is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Pearls of Wisdom[edit] Pearls of Wisdom edited by the Ramakrishna Mission This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive. Why are people so afraid? Quotes about Evil by Paramahansa Yogananda. Daily Inspiration | Motivational Articles | Being Strong Quotes | Positive Quotes | Links-2 | About Topics: A- B- Being Ca- Co- D- E- F- G- H- I- J-K-L M- N-O Pa- Pr- Q-R Sa- Sk- T- U-V-W-X-Y-Z I hope you find great value in these Quotes about Evil from my large collection of inspirational quotes and motivational sayings.
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys) Related topics: Values Wisdom Cute Whimsey Live-By The only thing necessary for evil to triumphis for enough good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke Far from idleness being the root of all evil,it is rather the only true good.- Soren Kierkegaard Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in itas he who helps to perpetrate it.He who accepts evil without protesting against itis really cooperating with it.- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each email contains an unsubscribe link. Yogananda and Sacred Selfishness. The goal of life is higher selfishness. [Yogananda] First Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) advocated "stepping up selfishness" in a fit way into "Be divinely selfish". Then he swerved from his original teachings and said "Be unselfish" and condemned selfishness (documentation below), but not his earlier sayings in the matter, as far as I can see. Moreover, the guru founded Self-Realization Fellowship, SRF, which propagates the guru's halting teachings. I suggest SRF stops canonising faulty or messy Yogananda teachings in the first place, and goes for good yoga teachings. We are going into statements of someone who at one time says this, then something against it in another setting, and also, "We do not really know what is right or real ... we are often incorrect in our judgements.
" If you follow up the quotations (book references are at bottom of the pages), you can see for yourself they are nothing invented by me, and good luck with that. - TK Considerate Teachings or Plots? Yogananda: Siva. Simplicity Is the Key to Happiness. Simplicity Is the Key to Happiness by Paramhansa Yogananda Simplicity is not grinding poverty: It is not the polar opposite of wealth. To live simply is to pursue a quiet path of moderation. In a life of balance between opposite extremes lies inner happiness. People everywhere, in their quest for happiness outside themselves, discover in the end that they’ve been seeking it in an empty cornucopia, and sucking feverishly at the rim of a crystal glass into which was never poured the wine of joy. There are so many things here in America that I wanted for my own impoverished country.
In time, however, I found that the people here are not so happy, on average, as the peasants in India—many of whom cannot afford more than one meal a day. Most so-called “happiness” is nothing but suffering in disguise. Joy is too delicate a flower to bloom in the sooted atmosphere of worldly minds, which crave happiness from money and possessions. God Talks With Arjuna - Paramahansa Yogananda. Yogananda and the Bhagavad Gita. 1. Swami Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda attributed his phenomenal mental powers to a lifelong observance of brahmacharya.A few days ago, a new set of the Encyclopedia Britannica had been bought for the Math.
Seeing the new shining volumes, the disciple said to Swamiji, “It is almost impossible to read all these books in a single lifetime.” He was unaware that Swamiji had already finished ten volumes and had begun the eleventh.Swamiji: What do you say? Ask me anything you like from these ten volumes, and I will answer you all.The disciple asked in wonder, “Have you read all these books?” Swamiji: Why should I ask you to question me otherwise? Being examined, Swamiji not only reproduced the sense, but at places the very language of the difficult topics selected from each volume. Swamiji: Do you see, simply by the observance of strict Brahmacharya (continence) all learning can be mastered in a very short time — one has an unfailing memory of what one hears or knows but once. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (On Practice) 1. Mortification, study, and surrendering fruits of work to God are called Kriya-yoga.
Those Samadhis with which we ended our last chapter are very difficult to attain; so we must take them up slowly. The first step, the preliminary step, is called Kriya-yoga. Literally this means work, working towards Yoga. 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. 2. Most of us make our minds like spoilt children, allowing them to do whatever they want. 3. These are the five pains, the fivefold tie that binds us down, of which ignorance is the cause and the other four its effects. 4. Ignorance is the cause of egoism, attachment, aversion, and clinging to life. 5. All the different sorts of impressions have one source, ignorance. 6. The seer is really the Self, the pure one, the ever holy, the infinite, the immortal. 7. 8. That which gives us pain we immediately seek to get away from. 9. 10. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
Swami Vivekananda early life Best Success Books, Books on Success. A critical discussion on brahmacharya (celibacy) « The making of a Sarvodaya Sannyasin. I had a critical discussion on brahmacharya (known as celibacy in English) with some of my friends. They raised many critical questions which I am trying my best to answer in this post. Feel free to give your feedback in comments section as it will help in learning and development of myself and other readers of this blog. Thanks, Gopal Discussion: Dear XYZ Bhai, Regarding the stress on celibacy in my post ( How to groom next generation spiritually as well as intellectually?
Question.1. Yes, but nature replenishes things at a particular rate, which cannot be accelerated to an infinite degree. Situation 1. Clearly, person A has been losing much more vital elements than person B. Question 2. Question 3. DNA is not unaltered by stress and other physical and mental conditions. There is a whole new branch called Epigenetics which is studying how DNA expressions can change. DNA can be damaged by many sorts of mutagens, which change the DNA sequence. Question 5. With this I close my arguments. Greatly inspiring brahmacharya (celibacy) quotes « The making of a Sarvodaya Sannyasin. Last update on 14 Feb, 2014.Yahoo-groups for brahmacharya aspiransts: for males only and for females only.Facebook group for brahmacharya aspirants: other brahmacharya articles here, here, here and here.Year 2012: My views on marriage have completely changed in last 2 years.
My latest view is that every spiritual aspirant should get married to an intellectually and spiritually compatible spouse after crossing the age of 25 provided one can find such a spouse and is emotionally and financially strong and then after having 1-2 kids before 29-30 or 32-33, both spouses should practise lifelong celibacy. (Under the age of 30 is Ramakrishna Mission’s upper age limit for monk aspirants, set by Swami Vivekananda himself and also the age when Buddha started his quest for spiritual realization and 32-33 is the upper age limit in the writings of Swami Sivananda for starting lifelong celibacy. I. Introduction II. III. IV. Hi friends, II.