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QUOTATIONS ON RELIGION,  FEBRUARY 2020 CALENDAR

29 Quotations from Swami Vivekananda’s Speeches are given in this month’s calendar.

Festival Days in February 2020- 1 Ratha Saptami, 2 Bhishma Ashtami,  8 Thai Pusam, 21 Maha Shivratri, 25 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Jayanthi.

Purnima/Full Moon Day – 8/ 9, Amavasyai/New Moon Day-22/23

Ekadasi/Hindu Fasting Day – 5,19

Muhurta / auspicious days – 5, 7, 12, 14, 20, 21, 26

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FEBRUARY 1 SATURDAY

Talking is not Religion ; parrots may talk, machines may talk nowadays 3-134

FEBRUARY 2 SUNDAY

Religion is to be realized, not only heard; is is not in learning some doctrine like a parrot 3-378

FEBRUARY 3 MONDAY

Our religion is not based upon persons but on principles 3-249

FEBRUARY 4 TUESDAY

All religion is to be based upon morality, and personal purity is to be counted superior to dharma 3-360

FEBRUARY 5 WEDNESDAY

Religion is not going to church, or putting marks n the forehead; or dressing in a particular fashion 3-283

FEBRUARY 6 THURSDAY

Religion is primary. Religion is infinite, none can go beyond it 3-245, 289

FEBRUARY 7 FRIDAY

Religion is not in books, nor in theories, nor in dogmas, nor in talking, not even in reasoning. It is being and becoming 3-253

FEBRUARY 8 SATURDAY

Religions do not  come from without but from within.3-1

FEBRUARY 9 SUNDAY

Religion, which is the highest knowledge and the highest wisdom, cannot be bought, nor can it be acquired from books 3-52

FEBRUARY 10 MONDAY

It is an insult to starving people offer them religion; it is an insult to a starving man to teach him metaphysics.1-20

FEBRUARY 11 TUESDAY

Temples or churches, books or forms, are simply the kindergarten of religion 2-243

FEBRUARY 12 WEDNESDAY

Science and religion will meet and shake hands 2-140

FEBRUARY 13 THURSDAY

Religion is ever a practical science , and there never was nor will be any theological religion 2-317

FEBRUARY 14 FRIDAY

If a religion cannot help man wherever he may be , wherever he stands, is not of much use 2-300

FEBRUARY 15 SATURDAY

The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful 1-264

FEBRUARY 16 SUNDAY

The proof of religion depends  on the truth of the constitution of man, and not on any books 1-369

FEBRUARY 17 MONDAY

The end of religions is the realizing of god in the soul 1-324

FEBRUARY 18 TUESDAY

There is one religion and there are many sects 1-438

FEBRUARY 19 WEDNESDAY

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature

FEBRUARY 20 THURSDAY

Books never make religions but religions make books 1-324

FEBRUARY 21 FRIDAY

Every religion only evolving a god out of the material man , and the same god is the inspirer of all  of them 1-18

FEBRUARY 22 SATURDAY

No two persons have the same religion 1-474

FEBRUARY 23 SUNDAY

Religion cannot be swallowed in the form of a pill 1-407

FEBRUARY 24 MONDAY

Real religion begins where this little universe ends 1-97

FEBRUARY 25 TUESDAY

Religion comes when that actual realization in our own souls begins 2-164

FEBRUARY 26 WEDNESDAY

I shall call you religious from the day you begin to see god in men and women.

FEBRUARY 27 THURSDAY

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have 2-66

FEBRUARY 28 FRIDAY

Religion is the greatest motive  power for realizing that infinite energy which is the birth right  and nature of every man 2-67

FEBRUARY 29 SATURDAY

Religion begins with this question (is this Real ?) and ends with its answer 2-70

Source book – Pearls of Wisdom, Swami Vivekananda, The Ramakrishna Mission, Gol Park, Kolkata 700 029, Year 2009

–subham–