Work Without Getting Caught One of the greatest lessons I have learnt in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. He was a great man from whom I learnt it, and his own life was a practical demonstration of this great principle. I have […]
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Category: Swami Vivekananda Teachings
Buddhism, The Fulfillment of Hinduism –
Buddhism, The Fulfillment of Hinduism – Vivekananda 26th September, 1893 I am not a Buddhist, as you have heard, and yet I am. If China, or Japan, or Ceylon follow the teachings of the Great Master, India worships him as God incarnate on earth. You have just now heard that I am going to criticise […]
Sisters and Brothers of America – Viveka
Sisters and Brothers of America Response to Welcome By Swami Vivekananda At the World’s Parliament of Religions, Chicago 11th September, 1893 Sisters and Brothers of America, It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have given us. I thank you in the name of […]
Steps for Self-Realization – Vivekananda
Steps to Realization First among the qualifications required of the aspirant for Jnâna, or wisdom, come Shama and Dama, which may be taken together. They mean the keeping of the organs in their own centres without allowing them to stray out. …. Thus the mind acts through two agencies — one external, and the other […]
Work for Work’s Sake – Vivekananda
Work for Work’s Sake Man works with various motives. There cannot be work without motive. Some people want to get fame, and they work for fame. Others want money, and they work for money. Others want to have power, and they work for power. Others want to get to heaven, and they work for the […]
Get Hold of Yourself – Vivekananada
Get Hold of Yourself Work and its secret We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, “Oh, the world is a devil’s world.” We curse others and […]
What is Karma ? – Vivekananda
What is Karma ? Actually, the meaning of the word Karma as the universal law of Cause and Effect, is often used in a simple way by most of us in daily life. When we say, “As he sows so does he reap”, or “What goes around comes around”, it broadly defines the Law of […]
Work Without Attachment – Vivekananada
Work without attachment The Secret of Work This is the central idea in the Gita: work incessantly, but be not attached to it. Samskâra can be translated very nearly to “inherent tendency”. Using the simile of a lake for the mind, every ripple, every wave that rises in the mind, when it subsides, does not die […]