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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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