San Diego Vedanta Monastery

19 hours ago

Summon all your energies and set yourselves to work heart and soul; that will really be heroic.
- Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 6, Epistles - Second Series ... See MoreSee Less

San Diego Vedanta Monastery

2 days ago

Sometimes I become weak, being alone and struggling against odds, my God; and I think of human help. Save Thou me for ever from these weaknesses, and may I never, never seek for help from any being but Thee.
- Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 6, Epistles - Second Series ... See MoreSee Less

San Diego Vedanta Monastery

3 days ago

"But however small or large, however rational or irrational, however weak or strong, those who order and give meaning to their lives based upon supremacy are dangerous – dangerous to those who, in their eyes, are inferior or different, dangerous to the wider company in which they live, dangerous to their own religious, national, ethnic, and cultural entities, dangerous it turns out to themselves." ... See MoreSee Less

San Diego Vedanta Monastery

4 days ago

One must work as the dictate comes from within, and then if it is light and good, society is bound to veer round, perhaps centuries after one is dead and gone. We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we be ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the light. ... See MoreSee Less

San Diego Vedanta Monastery

5 days ago

"In wealth is the fear of poverty, in knowledge the fear of ignorance, in beauty the fear of age, in fame the fear of backbiters, in success the fear of jealousy, even in body is the fear of death. Everything in this earth is fraught with fear. He alone is fearless who has given up everything" (Vairâgya-Shatakam, 31).
- Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 6, Epistles - Second Series ... See MoreSee Less