SWAMI VIVEKANANDA QUOTES ON "BONDAGE & BOOKS"
BONDAGE:
- A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one.
- The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron.
- Free will is a misnomer.
- The ghosts of past thoughts, past lives hold us down.
- We think in time; our thoughts are bound by time; all that exists, exists in time and space.
- We must learn not only to attach the mind to one thing exclusively, but also to detach it at a moment's notice and place it upon something else.
- Bondage brings only misery.
- Desire, ignorance and inequality - this is the trinity of bondage.
- Our bondage is a delusion.
- If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.
- He who says he is boun, bound he shall remain.
- As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.
- He whose senses rule him is worldly - is a slave.
- We are all slaves to our senses, slaves to our own minds, conscious and subconscious.
- We are all slaves to our own and to everybody else's mind.
- We are led here and there because we cannot help ourselves.
- We think because we have to think.
- To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.
BOOK:
- No book ever created a soul.
- Clinging to books only degenerates the human and mind.
- No amount of books can help us to become purer.
- 'Books are good but they are only maps.'
- No one becomes learned by reading books.
- By reading books we become parrots.
- A book is the most tangible form of God.
- The living power you cannot find in the books.
- Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance;their action is negative.
- Mere book-learning won't do;
- Mere book-learned Pandits are of no avail.
- Book-worship is the worst form of idolatry.
BRAHMACHARYA:
- Is there a greater strength than that of Brahmacharya - purity, my boy?
BRAHMIN:
- The Buddhists cannot stand without the brain and philosophy of the Brahmins, nor the Brahmin, without the heart of the Buddist.
- The birth of the Brahmin is 'for the protection of the treasury of religion.
- The plan in India is to make everybody a Brahmin, the Brahmin being the ideal of humanity.
BRAVE:
- The brave are always moral.
- The brave alone can afford to be sincere.
- None but the bravest deserves salvation.
- The brave alone do great things, not the cowards.
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- No book ever created a soul.
- Clinging to books only degenerates the human and mind.
- No amount of books can help us to become purer.
- 'Books are good but they are only maps.'
- No one becomes learned by reading books.
- By reading books we become parrots.
- A book is the most tangible form of God.
- The living power you cannot find in the books.
- Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance;their action is negative.
- Mere book-learning won't do;
- Mere book-learned Pandits are of no avail.
- Book-worship is the worst form of idolatry.
BRAHMACHARYA:
- Is there a greater strength than that of Brahmacharya - purity, my boy?
BRAHMIN:
- The Buddhists cannot stand without the brain and philosophy of the Brahmins, nor the Brahmin, without the heart of the Buddist.
- The birth of the Brahmin is 'for the protection of the treasury of religion.
- The plan in India is to make everybody a Brahmin, the Brahmin being the ideal of humanity.
BRAVE:
- The brave are always moral.
- The brave alone can afford to be sincere.
- None but the bravest deserves salvation.
- The brave alone do great things, not the cowards.
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