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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–