Swami Vivekananda was a chief disciple of the mystic Ramakrishna. Ramakrishna was the spiritually awakened being who had realized the god within. He has selected Swami Vivekananda as his disciple seeing his phenomenal qualities that were not ordinary.
Vivekananda became a great spiritual leader & has gone deeper into meditation. His intellectual skills were also extraordinary and helped to spread spiritual knowledge to the world.
Swami Vivekananda’s quotes are precious & they have the live experience of the master himself.
Quote 1
“Everything is easy when you are busy.
But nothing is easy when you are lazy.”
Laziness simply means doing nothing or thinking that we will do it later.
Laziness postpones the things to be done in the future. And when that future moment comes, laziness continues the same loop. The thing never gets done & there are piles of things that get queued.
Procrastination increases depression because postponing things does not mean they will disappear. If we don’t fix them, they will appear again & will continue to chase till they are looked into.
The problem remains a problem till it gets solved, the lazy attitude of mind is not willing to face the problems & solve them. It is trying to ignore the problems assuming that they will magically disappear.
When we face the problems then the problems become the project. The project is designed & planned, it has steps to be followed & actions to be taken.
The problem is targeted from all possible ways to get it solved & with this approach of mind everything is easy. The person becomes busy & involved in achieving the targets and on the other side of reaching the goals is the freedom.
A busy person is a person who has taken his life in his hands. He is designing his own life & he rejects living the default life.
In default life, a person is a slave to the circumstances of life & he just lives because he has to live. In a life of design, a person discovers his true passion & designs his life as per his will. He is busy taking action towards his passion & lives a life of satisfaction.
Quote 2
“Arise, awake, and do not stop until the goal is reached.”
The majority of the people have given up on their goals. And there are unlimited reasons to not achieve the goals.
Every reason that we put breaks the confidence & takes away the power to take action towards the goals. Every reason is programming the mind & demolishing the trust in oneself. The reasons that pop up in the mind are planted in the childhood days & they come from surroundings. They come from our near & dear ones.
By erasing all the reasons, we need to arise & awaken again to bring life to our goals.
We have to trust in our own abilities that anything practical is possible. With this new mindset, we must chase our goals till they are reached & not stop anywhere in the middle. We need to keep walking & there has to be consistency on a daily basis.
“Champion’s mindset is very much dominating towards the goal.”
The people who become champions & win awards have a particular mindset than the rest of the competitors which makes them come first.
All this starts with a strong belief & willpower to become the champion. They take massive action & they almost seem unstoppable. They only stop when the goal is reached. They have their mind set completely on their goal. Their focus is unshakable.
Ordinary people have a shattered mindset towards their goals. They do not stick to one goal & usually jump from one goal to another. They make little effort & seeing no results they quit doing it.
After some days of watching some motivational videos they again decide to take on & this too lasts for a few days & this creates a circle. This circle breaks the confidence in a very silent manner.
Quote 3
“Never say NO, Never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you.
You can do anything.”
There are so many books available that talk about the powers of the mind & subconscious mind. Using the powers of the mind, average people have found doing miracles & changing their life situations.
“The infinite powers are present & available to everyone, it is just a matter of being willing to use them.”
We use these powers automatically in emergency & critical situations. There are so many people that have reached the top from zero. They do not have the necessary education, they do not have money, they do not have the resources but the thirst for reaching the goal is very strong so they reach it.
If they were given everything they did not have at the initial stage, then their life would have been the same as an average person.
Saying NO simply means that we are not ready enough, it’s not like that we don’t have the power but the strong will is absent.
This can be changed & the mind can be reprogrammed to say YES to everything. The complete trust in the inner powers can strengthen the YES to do anything.
From the spiritual perspective, we are infinite beings entered into this finite body. Our nature is infinite & has no end. The source in itself is vast & unlimited, we are always connected to the source & there cannot be disconnection at any time.
Realizing the greatness within us, we can change our lives to a higher dimension.
Quote 4
“Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.
Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.
Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”
There are 2 aspects that are connected to everyone, one is life & another is death.
Life means light, growth, expansion, creation, strength, flowering, love, and happiness. Death means darkness, destruction, weakness, sadness, grief, tears, hatred, jealousy, anger, battles.
We are constantly switching between life & death. One moment we are happy and excited & there is joy. In another moment we are angry and disappointed & there is great sadness. Life & death are pulling you from both ends.
The thing that we support more, will win on us. If we support sadness, complaining, anger & hatred then the Death aspect will win & there will be darkness surrounding us. If we sync with love, forgiveness, compassion, happiness, and peace then the Life aspect will win & there will be a bright light within us.
The choice remains with us always to embrace all that is good or we can hug the badness so tightly that it won’t leave us. Every moment there is an opportunity to connect with the light & start with a new beginning as it is never too late.
Badness may have been our history but that doesn’t mean that goodness is not possible. The manipulation can begin right from this moment.
And when we are connected with the life aspect then our life flowers like a garden. There is the blue sky & sun shining with a glow. There are colorful birds & butterflies. There is greenery & fragrance of the flowers.
Quote 5
“Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities.
Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.”
Everyone has a big dream hidden in their mind. This dream flashes in the mind right from the childhood days. When we were children our minds were empty & everything looked possible.
At that time, we do not have that much consciousness to chase the dream. As we grow bigger the consciousness also grows but the mind is no longer empty it is programmed by the people & surroundings. They have done their best to disable & lessen the true potential that we possess.
Compromising the heart’s goal is not at all a good compromise. The soul has written that goal in our hearts before we were born & we were supposed to complete & reach the goal because it has a divine reason hidden in it.
“Everyone has the ability & potential hidden within him but it is in a sleeping state.”
When we target the highest goals with a true determination then the sleeping giant begins to awaken. The negative thoughts start vanishing & a positive flow of energy begins.
A person becomes disciplined & all his actions are directed toward the goal he wants to reach. His strong mental strength is a signature that guarantees success.
Lowering the goals means lowering the potential & losing an opportunity to raise the greatness within you. Lowering the goals means that we do not have the courage to take the steps & walk to the mountain peak.
This will result in nothing but dissatisfaction, broken confidence, a life of slavery & working on someone else’s goal.
Quote 6
“Talk to yourself at least once in a Day. Otherwise, you may miss a meeting with an excellent person in this World.”
We like talking with others & we talk unlimited in our lifetime with others. We talked about many different things & most of the talk was not necessary but it was an addiction.
We cannot survive without talking, when our mouth is shut & we are silent for a few moments then great fear is experienced within, we immediately find someone to talk with or we switch to watching mobile or television. The discovery of mobile phones has increased the talking proportion as we can call anyone who is far away & talk with them for longer times.
There is one person who is skipped in this talking & we stay away from that person. We do not need any equipment like mobiles to talk with him.
That person is the one sitting with us. He has all the mysteries of existence hidden in his hands. He is the ancient one who has all the knowledge & all the solutions for any problem. The great solutions that are being discovered are a result of talking with that inner person.
The more calmly we are talking with him the more powerfully he responds. In the relaxed state of mind when we ask questions within then we get the answer to the questions.
The answer may not be immediate but there are many experiments done & the answer is received. It may be received in the form of imagination or verbal sound from within the head or through various signals.
The answer is always accurate & it may not be logical for the conscious mind to comprehend because it comes from a higher intelligence that is beyond any logic.
And this inner realm is open & available to everyone. He or she may be of any religion, caste, country, or any life situation, he has the ability to talk with the higher intelligence within.
It is available any time & all the time, it cannot be unavailable. We only disconnect the connection to it from our end because our talking is directed towards the physical & not to the nonphysical.
Quote 7
“You are strong, omnipotent and omniscient.
No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you.”
The true nature of our being is almighty & omnipotent. We possess unlimited power & no one is an exception to this. It will be difficult to comprehend with the small conscious mind the power of the abundance superconscious mind.
All existence is a result of its creation. The sun, moon, stars, sky, mountains, and oceans are its creation & the creation hasn’t stopped. New babies are born every single day, and new life in every dimension is in the creation process. Its creativity isn’t duplicated, everything created is new & fresh.
The omnipresent isn’t affected by our disconnection to it but we are completely affected by the disconnection.
We are busy with our routine schedule & the life of hurry. Everything is in chaos & there looks to be no way out of it. Life seems to be just lived like a punishment & there are no special things happening that we are expecting to happen.
The flowering is not yet & the season of the sun is not yet. It is darkness & all the negative energies are troubling from all the edges.
This great secret is so close that we miss seeing it. Our eyes are focused on the outer world objects & we are involved completely in the outer world.
We are trapped in the prison of illusion & the prison is such that it isn’t there but it seems to be there. This is the most dangerous prison & can only be broken by oneself.
Rare people look for a way in an authentic sense to search for a life of heaven. They search for the omnipresent & something that can bring a new life for them. All the old will be erased, it will be totally disappeared with no possibility of coming back again.
They search for a sun that shines light all the time & never sets, there isn’t any darkness, there is only light & it is forever.
Quote 8
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life,
think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.
Let the brain, 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”.
Focus is a key ingredient to achieve success in life.
The more focus one has, the more he will win in life. Focus is a mindset & is related to the mind. It is related to the thoughts going on in the mind. It means directing the mind in one direction.
“When the mind is one focused then the body also becomes one focused.”
Remaining focused on one idea for a longer period of time increases the sharpness of mind. A single thought creates mind power & multiple thoughts drain the mind power.
If we observe our mind, it is naturally not one-focused. It is used to change from one branch to another. It isn’t ready to stick to one thought. Sometimes we are determined to do one thing & a few moments after that determination is lost & this breaks the confidence at higher levels.
The unstable mind is the root cause of all the failures in life & instability is due to the lack of focus. Mind like a horse without a rider runs in every direction with no clear destination.
We need to focus on one goal at a time. And this has to be the best goal that you always wanted. The achievement of the goal should give you contentment & satisfaction.
Once the goal is decided then there should be nothing else that should come to mind. Everywhere, every moment there should be only one focus, there should be only one thing going in the mind. All the activities of mind & body should run in one direction like a river water running in a firm direction.
The focus should be un-shivering & one has to bring back the focus when it gets distracted. 24 hours only one idea should run in mind, all the thinking, feeling, imagination, contemplation, and visualization should flow in the direction of the goal.
Life should fill up completely with the one goal that was selected. One who does this achieves success, there cannot be another way around. This is the master key to success.
Quote 9
“Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”
We do things in a sleeping state of mind.
Our body is doing one thing & the mind is somewhere else busy dreaming something different. The thing that we are doing is done with no energy because the mind is engaged in something else at the same time.
When there is no energy then boredom strikes and the result fails & there is no enjoyment whatsoever we are doing.
In the sleepy state of mind, it jumps from one thing to another very quickly. It wants to finish things up in a hurry. It starts doing one thing & in a short period of time shifts to another thing.
This denotes a very unstable state of mind where there is no rhythm but a misalignment. This instability of the mind becomes the cause of all the negative emotions of the mind.
One thing at a time is a new pattern of mind that we can inculcate in our daily routine. The one thing should not only be restricted to the body but to the mind also the same pattern applies.
When doing any small thing, we need to accumulate all our focus on this thing. The body & mind should be in perfect alignment towards this one thing. Then this small thing takes a different dimension & it becomes bigger in a different sense. Big things are not always required to become bigger. Doing small things in a big way makes it bigger than the bigger.
When the mind is stable with one focus, it responds differently. The state of mind is the primary factor that determines success.
To become successful one has to respond accurately to all the hindrances & plans. The response depends on the stability of the mind. The unstable mind fails to respond accurately & brings failure as its counter-response.
The stable mind in the present moment responds with perfection & brings success.
Quote 10
When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others.
When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
We see the world based on our perception. Perception is a colorful glass that displays the world as per the color of glass. The color of the glass gives the same color to all the objects that are seen.
And there is no possibility that some other color can be seen. If perception is anger then we can see anger everywhere. It is not that everyone is angry but we have worn the glass of red color & everyone looks red now.
It becomes very much necessary to change the perception & replace the old negative patterns of mind that are forcing us to see the negative in all situations.
We are programmed to see the negative & find out all that is negative in the situation that we are facing. This negative programming is deeply rooted within us & people around us have contributed to developing it within us.
When we are projecting imperfection, the first person that is affected is none other than you. The bad projections are creating harmful cells within the body & the physical body is misaligned due to the bad vibrations in the mind.
“Negative thoughts are the ultimate root cause of all the diseases.”
They are like criminals who are never exposed, they remain hidden and no one points the finger at them. They do their job & then they vanish with no signs.
A perfect man sees perfection in everything. His perception is of high quality & he can see things that a naysayer cannot see. He sees the brighter side & sees the positive aspects in any situation, he sees the opportunities & the unlimited possibilities with hopes & faith.
Every day he gets up with a new energy, full of excitement & doing the things that he loves to do. He sees perfection all around.
