Swami Vivekananda India Quotations

Let new India arise out of peasants cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

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.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.

Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.

Religion in India culminates in freedom.

Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.

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

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built. Politics, power, and even intellect form a secondary consideration here. Religion, therefore, is the one consideration in India.

Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion.

Above all, India is the land of religion.

Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.

The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

I must remark that what I mean by our religion working upon the nations outside of India comprises only the principles, the background, the foundation upon which that religion is built.