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By Swami Vivekananda:-
God has created me and I have created God. We create God in our image. It is we who create him to be our master, it is not God who makes us his servants. When we know that we are one with God, that we and he are friends, then come equality and freedom. So long as you hold yourself separated by a hairs breadth from this Eternal one, fear cannot go. — Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA, July 3 1895. Last sentence is a paraphrase of Taittriya Upanisad, 2.7.1
We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but our misery will still continue to exist until our character changes — Class on Karma Yoga. New York, December 20, 1895. Complete Works, 1. 53.
Swami, what you claim is that all is good? Vivekananda: By no means. My claim is that all is not– Only God is! That makes all the difference;—. >Q&A session, Northern California, USA, complete works, 9.329.
I am doing here exactly what I used to do in India; always depending on the Lord and making no plans ahead. >from USA, Oct 27 1894; Letter to Alasinga. Complete works 5.50.
God has hidden himself best, and his work is best. So those who hide themselves best, accomplish most. Conquer yourself, and the whole universe is yours.
Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 26, 1895. Complete Works, 7.15.
Vivekananda: I am the disciple of a man who could not write his own name, and I am not worthy to undo his shoes. How often have I wished I could take my intellect and throw it into the Ganges!
Student: But, Swami, that is the part of you I like best.
Vivekananda: That is because you are a fool, Madam–like I am.
Mrs. Edith Allan’s description of a teacher-student exchange in a San Francisco class. Complete Works, 9. 330
– It is sheer nonsense for any person to think that he or she is born to help the world. It is simply pride. It is selfishness insinuating itself as virtue. Class on Karma Yoga. New York,January 3, 1896.Complete Works, 1.89-90
– This very year some of your friends may have died. Is the world waiting without going on? Is its current stopped? No, it goes on. So drive out of your mind the idea that you have to do something for the world. The world does not require any help from you. – Class of Karma Yoga, New York Jan 3 1896. Complete works, 1.89.
My life is more precious than spending it in getting the admiration of the world. I have no time for such foolery. – Letter to Alasinga. From Chicago: January 12, 1895. Complete Works, 5. 67.
We do not or cannot see the painful parts in objects, we are charmed with only the pleasurable portion; and, thus grasping the pleasurable, we unwittingly draw in the painful. –From notes discovered among Swami Vivekananda’s papers. Complete Works, 5. 428.
Spiritual attainment does not depend on any dogma, or doctrine, or belief. Whether one is Christian or Jewish or Gentile, it does not matter. Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book or without going into a single church or temple.-Class on Karma Yoga. New York, January 3, 1896. Complete Works, 1. 93.
There is no possibility of ever having pleasure without pain, or good without evil. For living itself is just the lost equilibrium. What we want is freedom, not life, nor pleasure, nor good. – Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 25, 1895
