It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the Vedanta declares that one and the same conscious Self is present in all beings. You always criticize the women, but say what have you done for their uplift? Writing down Smritis etc., and binding them by hard rules, the men have turned the women into manufacturing machines! If you do not raise the women, who are living embodiment of the Divine Mother, donโt think that you have any other way to rise.
Swami VivekanandaDon't look backโforward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patienceโthen alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Swami VivekanandaWhatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.
Swami VivekanandaEverything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.
Swami VivekanandaLet me draw your attention to one thing which unfortunately we always forget: that is - "O man, have faith in yourself."
Swami VivekanandaRenunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.
Swami Vivekananda