Teachings

Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Dutta, was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.  You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.  The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.  Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.  Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.  Arise,awake and donot stop until the goal is reached.  The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.  If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.  The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free.

“Swami Vivekananda”