“If I may be allowed to use a simile, creation and creator are two lines, without beginning and without end, running parallel to each other. God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed. This is what the Brâhmin boy repeats every day: “The sun and the moon, the Lord created like the suns and moons of previous cycles.” And this agrees with modern science.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Here it may be said that these laws as laws may be without end, but they must have had a beginning. The Vedas teach us that creation is without beginning or end.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The soul was not created, for creation means a combination which means a certain future dissolution.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“If [you think] thought cannot be manufactured, stop eating for twenty days and see how you feel. Begin today and count. ... Even thought is manufactured by food. There is no doubt about it.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]. If I want to concentrate my mind upon a point, it goes there, and the moment I call, it is free [again]....”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
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