Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
Swami VivekanandaRead
Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes that progress can only be achieved through action and dynamism.
Swami Vivekananda suggests that Rajas, which represents activity and passion, is essential for achieving progress. He implies that without the drive and energy that comes from Rajas, individuals and societies would stagnate, highlighting the necessity of an active pursuit of goals to foster growth and development.
Themes
ProgressRajasActionDynamismGrowth
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about driving change in a community.
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According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already.
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I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as Krishna, Rama, and Buddha, and that He will come again. It can almost be demonstrated that after each 500 years the world sinks, and a tremendous spiritual wave comes, and on the top of the wave is a Christ.
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Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by work. It is a question of knowledge! You must know what you are, and it is done. The dream vanishes. This you [and others] are dreaming here. When they die, they go to [the] heaven [of their dream]. They live in that dream, and [when it ends], they take a nice body [here], and they are good people.
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