SWAMI VIVEKANANDA'S QUOTES ON "MAN"

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• Man is divine.
• Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.
• Man is the greatest of all beings.
• Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.
• Man is the greatest being that ever can be.
• Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.
• Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.
• Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.
• Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.
• Man in his true nature is substance, soul, and spirit.
• Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realize it – he can realize himself as the one infinite Self.
• Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.
• Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.
• Man always is perfect or he never could become so.
• Man is a compound of animality, humanity and divinity.
• In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he know, “I am”; but man does not know himself as he is.
• Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.
• The Real Man, therefore, is one and infinite, the omnipresent Spirit.
• Man is a degeneration of what he was.
• Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.
• The perfect man sees nothing but God.
• Man also becomes God.
• Man alone becomes God.
• Man is a creature who thinks.
• Man is the product of tow forces, action and reaction, which make him think.
• Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (Mind).
• Man can think of divine things only in his own human way; to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.
• Man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.
• There are three things in the make-up of man. There is the Body, there is the Mind and there is the Soul.
• Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmani-fested.
• We are all called “Man” because we are the progeny of Manu.
• The glory of man is that he is a thinking being.
• The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.
• The ignorant man never enjoys.
• The selfish man is the most miserable in the world.
• Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.
• As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion.
• Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.
• Man dies but once.
• Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta Philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.
• Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.
• Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.
• Man is not mid, he is Soul.
• Man cannot be satisfied by wealth.
• Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!
• the real man is the one Unit Existence.
• The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.
• The animal man lives in the senses.
• That is why purity and morality have been always the object of religion; a pure, moral man has control of himself.