Quotes About Enlightenment

We can read all the Vedas, and yet will not realize anything, but when we practice their teachings, then we attain to that state which realizes what the scriptures say, which penetrates where neither reason nor perception nor inference can go, and where the testimony of others cannot avail.

To the Hindu, says Vivekananda, "Man is not travelling from error to truth, but climbing up from truth to truth, from truth that is lower to truth that is higher.

you are all bound by the law of Karma, the Upanishads admit, but they declare the way out.

Realisation is real religion, all the rest is only preparation — hearing lectures, or reading books, or reasoning is merely preparing the ground; it is not religion.

When this Sushumna current opens, and begins to rise, we get beyond the senses, our minds become supersensuous, superconscious -- we get beyond even the intellect

Let us not be caught this time. So many times Maya has caught us, so many times have we exchanged our freedom for sugar dolls which melted when the water touched them. Don't be deceived. Maya is a great cheat. Get out. Do not let her catch you this time. Do not sell your priceless heritage for such delusions. Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.

Thus he goes beyond the pain of birth and death. Thus he becomes free

All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga — Samadhi.

Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.

A man is said to be [illumined] if his will has become firm, if his mind is not disturbed by misery, if he does not desire any happiness, if he is free of all [attachment], of all fear, of all anger

Where it is dark night for the [sense-bound] world, the self controlled [man] is awake.

It is daylight for him. ...

Swami Vivekananda LECTURES ON THE BHAGAVAD GITA

He has seen the glory of the Self

Then the gods become no gods; death becomes no death; life becomes no life.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Every day you learn something new.

Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.

Every time you do a project, you learn something new.

Learning is constant. I learn something new every day.

Every project I do, I learn something new.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.