Swami Vivekananda Form Quotations

Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.

As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.

Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.

We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.

The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.

Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.

Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end.

Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.

Differentiation is in name and form only.

Change is inherent in every form.

Anything that is in space has form. Space itself has form. Either you are in space, or space is in you. The soul is beyond all space. Space is in the soul, not the soul in space.

All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".

A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.

What is this universe but name and form?

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move.

The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .

The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.

Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.