7 Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Nature

Swami Vivekananda quotes on nature

18. External nature is only internal nature writ large.

21. The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

32. The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!

87. God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.

96. If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man's head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.

99. If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

208. If you ask me, 'Is there a God?' and I say 'Yes,' you immediately ask my grounds for saying so, and poor me has to exercise all his powers to provide you with some reason. If you had come to Christ and said 'Is there any God?' he would have said, 'Yes,' and if you had asked, 'Is there any proof?' he would have replied, 'Behold the Lord!'