Author: Siri Sampada

“Infinite strength is religion and God. Avoid weakness and slavery. –         Swami Vivekananda

Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God, Meditate upon that in the heart. –         Swami Vivekananda

“Take some holy person, some great person whom you revere, some saint whom you know to be perfectly non-attached, and think of his heart; that heart has become non-attached, and meditate on that heart, it will calm the mind. –         Swami Vivekananda

“The easiest way to get hold of the mind is to sit quiet and let it drift where it will for a while. Hold fast to the idea, ‘I am the witness watching my mind drifting. The mind is not I. Then see it think as if it were a thing entirely apart from yourself. […]

“We have to seize this unstable mind and it from its wanderings and fix it on one idea. Over and over again this must be done. –         Swami Vivekananda

Regular breathing puts the body in a harmonious condition; and it is then easier to reach the mind… simple breathing is all that is necessary in that line. In this way we get control of the body, and then we begin to feel the finer working of the body, the finer and more interior, and […]

“The danger of concentrating the mind upon an object and then being unable to detach at will. This state causes great suffering. Almost all our suffering is caused by our not having the power of detachment. –         Swami Vivekananda

In making money, or in worshipping God, or in doing anything, the stronger the power of concentration, the better will that thing be done. –         Swami Vivekananda

We who cannot for a moment govern our own minds, nay, cannot hold our minds on a subject, focus it on a point to the exclusion of everything else for a moment! Yet we call ourselves free. Think of it! –         Swami Vivekananda.