Author: Siri Sampada

Side by side, in the child, should be developed the power of concentration and detachment. –         Swami Vivekananda.

The purer the mind, the easier it is to control. Purity of the mind must be insisted upon if you would control it. –         Swami Vivekananda.

Raja- to gain Yoga is the science which teaches us how the power of concentration. –         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). –         Swami Vivekananda.

“It is only when the mind is very calm and collected that the whole of its energy is spent in doing good work. And if you read the lives of the great workers which the world has produced, you will find that they were wonderfully calm men.” –         Swami Vivekananda. 

“How are we to know that the mind has become concentrated? Because the idea of time will vanish. The more time passes unnoticed the more concentrated we are. In common life we see that when we are interested in a book we do not the time at all; and when we leave the book, we […]

“Concentration is the essence of all knowledge; nothing can be done without it. Ninety per cent of thought force is wasted by the ordinary human being, and therefore he is constantly committing blunders; the trained man or mind never makes a mistake.” –         Swami Vivekananda.

“Is prayer a magic formula, by repeating which, even if you do not work hard, you gain miraculous results? No, all have to work hard; all have to reach the depths of that infinite Energy. Behind the poor, behind the rich, there is the same infinite Energy. It is not that one man works hard, […]

“Mother is the first manifestation of power… She is the sum total of the energy in the universe… Established in the idea of Mother, we can do anything. She quickly answers prayer” –         Swami Vivekananda.

“Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God, nearer than any prayer”. –    Swami Vivekananda.