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Vivekananda left a body of philosophical works (see Vivekananda's complete works) which Vedic scholar Frank Parlato has called, "the greatest comprehensive work in philosophy ever published."
One of the very greatest historical figures that India has ever produced.
--- Christopher Isherwood
'Narendra(Vivekananda) belongs to a very high plane — the realm of the Absolute. He has a manly nature. So many devotees come here, but there is no one like him.
--Sri Ramakrishna
He ( Vivekananda) has eighteen extraordinary powers, one or two of which is sufficient to make a man famous in the world.
--Sri Ramakrishna.
"Behold! Here is Naren (Vivekananda). See! See! Oh what power of insight he has! It is like the shoreless sea of radiant knowledge ! The Mother , Mahamaya Herself ,cannot approach within ten feet of him ! She is barred by the very glory which She has imparted to him !"
--Sri Ramakrishna
“Narendra (Swami Vivekananda) will teach others ….. Very soon he will shake the world by his intellectual and spiritual powers.”
---Sri Ramakrishna
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You yourself are your only friend. You yourself are your only enemy.
---Krishna ( Bhagavad Gita )
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
---Buddha
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
---Thomas Paine |