Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Meditation

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  • All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.34, Manonmani Publishers
  • The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com
  • Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.

  • Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

    Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.53, Advaita Ashrama
  • The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Manonmani Publishers
  • Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2579, Manonmani Publishers
  • Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.36, editionNEXT.com
  • The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

    "Meditation and Its Methods".
  • Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

    Swami Vivekananda, (2013). “Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda”, p.59, Read Books Ltd
  • Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers
  • The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

    Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama
  • Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

    Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications
  • "Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

    "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda".
  • See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the moment you will go to Calcutta, you will be thinking of nasty stuff.

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    Vivekananda (Swami) (1964). “Complete works”
  • Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.

    Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
  • When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

  • Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those few moments in meditation your brain has almost stopped. ... You forget the body. ... You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.

  • The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.15, editionNEXT.com
  • Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.448, Manonmani Publishers
  • To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.

    Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”
  • Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3525, Manonmani Publishers
  • The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

    Source: tamilandvedas.com
  • In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers
  • We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.

    Source: tamilandvedas.com
  • Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2206, Manonmani Publishers
  • Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers
  • First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2579, Manonmani Publishers
  • Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1638, Manonmani Publishers
  • The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

    "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.
  • Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

    Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”
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    Swami Vivekananda

    • Born: January 12, 1863
    • Died: July 4, 1902
    • Occupation: Author