SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Born on 12Th January 1863,swami Vivekanand is one of
the most spiritual and most influential sons of Indian soil
In fact 12th January is observed as National Youth Day all over India

Pundit Nehru said about him;" I do not know how many of the
younger generation read the speeches and writing of swami Vivekanand,
but i can tell you that many of my generation were very powerfully influenced
by him.if you read him,the curious thing you find is that they are not old ....
he gave us something which brings us , if I may use the word, a certain
pride in our inheritance.


Presented here are some of the most influential quotes by SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

--- Each soul is potentially divine.The goal is to manifest
this divinity within by controlling nature ,internal and external.
Do this either by work or workship or psychic control or philosophy-
by one or more ,or all of these -and be free
this is the whole of religion
Doctrines or dogmas or rituals or books or temples are
but secondary detail.
---Science has proved to me that physical individuality is a delusion
That really my body is one little continuous changing body
in an unbroken ocean of matter and Advaita [unity ]
is the necessary conclusion
with my other counterpart , SOUL.


--There is no polytheism in India . The rose
called by any other name would smell as sweet
NAMES ARE NOT EXPLANATION


--- Superstition is a great enemy of man , but bigotry is worse

---All the religions from the lowest fetishism , to the highest absolutes
mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realise
the infinite . Each determined by the condition of its birth and
association ,and each of these marks a stage of progress ;
Every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher
and higher , gathering more and more strength till
it reaches the glorious sun.

--The contradictions come from the same truth
adapting itself to the varying circumstances of different
natures


---Whatever may be the position of philosophy ,whatever may be
the position of metaphysics,so long as there is such a thing as Death
in the world, so long as there is such a thing as weakness in the human heart
,so long as there is a cry going out of the heart of a man in his very weakness there shall
be faith in GOD.

---It is only with knowledge of spirit that the faculty of want is annihilated for ever,
so helping man spiritually is the highest help that can be given to him.
---All work is by nature composed of good and evil. We cannot do any work
which will not do some good somewhere; there cannot be any work which will not cause some harm somewhere...

--Arise , awake and stop not till the desired end is reached
Arise awake and stop not till the GOAL is reached .
And above all imagine these words in World Parliament of Religion
Chicago in winter of 1893 at age of 30!!!!! . Oration in a English so fluent and thoughts so clear and powerful that he immediately became one of the well known Indians in the world..


HAIL TO GREAT SWAMI VIVEKANAND

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