SWAMI VIVEKANANDA'S QUOTES ON "MAN"
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- Man is
divine.
- Man is the
highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.
- Man is the
greatest of all beings.
- Man is the
nearest approach to Brahman.
- Man is the
greatest being that ever can be.
- Man is the
highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.
- Man is the
apex of the only world we can ever know.
- Man is the
epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.
- Man is the
best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.
- Man in his
true nature is substance, soul, and spirit.
- Man has
infinite power within himself, and he can realize it – he can realize himself
as the one infinite Self.
- Man as Atman is really free; as man he is
bound, changed by every physical condition.
- Each man is
perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is
potential in us.
- Man always
is perfect or he never could become so.
- Man is a
compound of animality, humanity and divinity.
- In one
sense Brahman is known to every human being; he know, “I am”; but man does not
know himself as he is.
- Man is man
so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both
internal and external.
- The Real Man, therefore, is one and
infinite, the omnipresent Spirit.
- Man is a
degeneration of what he was.
- Man cannot
always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.
- The perfect
man sees nothing but God.
- Man also
becomes God.
- Man alone
becomes God.
- Man is a
creature who thinks.
- Man is the
product of tow forces, action and reaction, which make him think.
- Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (Mind).
- Man can think
of divine things only in his own human way; to us the Absolute can be expressed
only in our relative language.
- Man is the
only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks
down.
- There are
three things in the make-up of man. There is the Body, there is the Mind and
there is the Soul.
- Infinite
perfection is in every man, though unmani-fested.
- We are all
called “Man” because we are the progeny of Manu.
- The glory
of man is that he is a thinking being.
- The happiest
is the man who is not at all selfish.
- The ignorant
man never enjoys.
- The selfish
man is the most miserable in the world.
- Man is really
free, the real man cannot but be free.
- As long as
a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of
religion.
- Man never
dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.
- Man dies
but once.
- Man,
therefore, according to the Vedanta Philosophy, is the greatest being that is
in the universe.
- Each man
has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.
- Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.
- Man is not mid, he is Soul.
- Man cannot be satisfied by wealth.
- Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!
- the real man is the one Unit Existence.
- The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.
- The animal man lives in the senses.
- That is why purity and morality have been always the object of religion; a pure, moral man has control of himself.