Sunday, July 31, 2011
None of us have any right to criticize
“There is so much of good in the worst in us and so much of bad in the best of us ...That none of us have any right to criticize any of us"
IN THE UNIVERSE CAN WITHHOLD FROM ANYONE ANYTHING HE REALLY DESERVES
" Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves "
- Swami Vivekananda
[The Bengalee, May 18, 1895]
India's greatness will exceed all limits IF she follows his words
" Who can understand the greatness of Swamiji [ SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ] ? India's greatness will exceed all limits IF she follows his words "
- Bagha Jatindranath
INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER
YOU KNOW HOW MANY SCIENCES HAD THEIR ORIGIN IN INDIA ?
“ This is the peculiarity of the Indian mind, that when anything interests it, it gets absorbed in it and other things are neglected. YOU KNOW HOW MANY SCIENCES HAD THEIR ORIGIN IN INDIA. Mathematics began there. You are even today counting 1, 2, 3, etc. to zero, after Sanskrit f......igures, and you all know that algebra also originated in India, and that gravitation was known to the Indians thousands of years before Newton was born ” - Swami Vivekananda
ACHARYA KAPIL (3000 BCE) - FATHER OF COSMOLOGY
Celebrated as the founder of Sankhya philosophy, Acharya Kapil is believed to have been born in 3000 BCE to the illustrious sage Kardam and Devhuti. He gifted the world with the Sankhya School of Thought. His pioneering work threw light on the nature and principles of the ultimate Soul (Pu...rusha), primal matter (Prakruti) and creation. His concept of transformation of energy and profound commentaries on atma, non-atma and the subtle elements of the cosmos places him in an elite class of master achievers - incomparable to the discoveries of other cosmologists. On his assertion that Prakruti, with the inspiration of Purusha, is the mother of cosmic creation and all energies, he contributed a new chapter in the science of cosmology. Because of his extrasensory observations and revelations on the secrets of creation, he is recognized and saluted as the Father of Cosmology.
FYI.........
What is COSMOLOGY ? ALL THESE IS BECAUSE OF AN INDIAN
Cosmology is the branch of astronomy that deals with the origin, structure, and space-time relationships of the universe.
[1] Modern cosmology is dominated by the Big Bang theory, which brings together observational astronomy and particle physics.
[2] The term is often used synonymously with cosmogony in casual conversations.
ACHARYA KAPIL (3000 BCE) - FATHER OF COSMOLOGY
Celebrated as the founder of Sankhya philosophy, Acharya Kapil is believed to have been born in 3000 BCE to the illustrious sage Kardam and Devhuti. He gifted the world with the Sankhya School of Thought. His pioneering work threw light on the nature and principles of the ultimate Soul (Pu...rusha), primal matter (Prakruti) and creation. His concept of transformation of energy and profound commentaries on atma, non-atma and the subtle elements of the cosmos places him in an elite class of master achievers - incomparable to the discoveries of other cosmologists. On his assertion that Prakruti, with the inspiration of Purusha, is the mother of cosmic creation and all energies, he contributed a new chapter in the science of cosmology. Because of his extrasensory observations and revelations on the secrets of creation, he is recognized and saluted as the Father of Cosmology.
FYI.........
What is COSMOLOGY ? ALL THESE IS BECAUSE OF AN INDIAN
Cosmology is the branch of astronomy that deals with the origin, structure, and space-time relationships of the universe.
[1] Modern cosmology is dominated by the Big Bang theory, which brings together observational astronomy and particle physics.
[2] The term is often used synonymously with cosmogony in casual conversations.
WE MUST ELECTRIFY SOCIETY, ELECRIFY THE WORLD.....
Go on bravely — never mind about designs and other details at present — "With the horse will come the reins". Work unto death — I am with you, and when I am gone, MY SPIRIT WILL WORK WITH YOU. This life comes and goes — wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far... better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to DIE LIKE A WORLDY WORM. ADVANCE!
- Swami Vivekananda
[ Page 234 - Swami Vivekananda On HIMSELF ]
WHY DID NOT YOUR RISHIS COME TO ENGLAND TO TEACH US ?
About fourteen hundred years before Christ, there flourished in India a great philosopher, Patanjali by name. He collected all the facts, evidences, and researches in psychology and took advantage of all the experiences accumulated in the past. It is taught here in the West that society began eighteen hundred years ago, with the New Testament. Before that there was no society. That may be true with regard to the West, but it is not true as regards the whole world.
Often, while I was lecturing in London, a very intellectual and intelligent friend of mine would argue with me, and one day after using all his weapons against me, he suddenly exclaimed, "But why did not your Rishis come to England to teach us?" I replied, " Because there was no England to come to. WOULD THEY PREACH TO THE FORESTS? "
- Swami Vivekananda
[The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 2/Hints on Practical Spirituality]
Swami Vivekananda's definition of Psychology
Swami Vivekananda's definition of Psychology {as only he could do!} : -
“It is the science of psychology that teaches us to hold in check the wild gyrations of the mind, place it under the control of the will, and thus free ourselves from its tyrannous mandates. PSYCHOLOGY is the science of sciences, without which all sciences and all other knowledge ARE WORTHLESS "
“It is the science of psychology that teaches us to hold in check the wild gyrations of the mind, place it under the control of the will, and thus free ourselves from its tyrannous mandates. PSYCHOLOGY is the science of sciences, without which all sciences and all other knowledge ARE WORTHLESS "
WORLD STANDS AGAINST YOU SWORD IN HAND
" Have you got the will to surmount mountain-high obstructions? If the whole world stands against YOU SWORD IN HAND, would you still dare to do what you think is right? "
- Swami Vivekananda
HISTORY OF MAN IS TREASURED UP IN INDIA AND INDIA ONLY
" Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be law or customs primitive art or primitive science, everywhere you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuaable and instructive materials of the history of MAN are treasured up in INDIA and India only. "
- Friedrich Maximiliam Mueller
{ German philologist }
NO BOOKS, NO SCRIPTURES, NO SCIENCE CAN EVERY IMAGINE THE GLORY OF MAN
NO BOOKS, NO SCRIPTURES, NO SCIENCE CAN EVERY IMAGINE THE GLORY OF MAN
" No books, no scriptures, no science can ever imagine the glory of the Self that appears as man, the most glorious God that ever was, the only God that ever existed, exists, or ever will exist. I am to worship, therefore, none but myself. "I worship my Self "
- Swami Vivekananda
BE LIGHT ON TO YOURSELF
" No books, no scriptures, no science can ever imagine the glory of the Self that appears as man, the most glorious God that ever was, the only God that ever existed, exists, or ever will exist. I am to worship, therefore, none but myself. "I worship my Self "
- Swami Vivekananda
BE LIGHT ON TO YOURSELF
INDIA - Possessing everything but POSSESSED by nothing
In India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to then, possessing everything but POSSESSED by nothing.
- Apollonius Tyanaeus
( Greek Thinker and Traveler )
FIGHT EVEN IF THERE IS ONLY DEFEAT
FIGHT EVEN IF THERE IS ONLY DEFEAT - That is Vivekananda's message to the humanity.
" I love terror for it's own sake, dispair for its own sake, misery for its own sake. Fight always. Fight and fight on, though always in defeat. That's the ideal. That's the ideal. "
- Swami Vivekananda
[From the book : - The Master as I saw him - Sister Nivedita. Page 151]
" I love terror for it's own sake, dispair for its own sake, misery for its own sake. Fight always. Fight and fight on, though always in defeat. That's the ideal. That's the ideal. "
- Swami Vivekananda
[From the book : - The Master as I saw him - Sister Nivedita. Page 151]
WORKSHIP THE TERRIBLE! WORSHIP DEATH!
Transcipt from the book " The Master As I saw Him " By Sister Nivedita
He was trying here to explain the idea of tapasya, in answer to my questions, and he spoke of the old way of lighting four fires, and sitting in the midst, hour after hour with the sun overhead, reining in the mind.
" WORKSHIP THE TERRIBLE! " he ended, " WORSHIP DEATH! All else is vain. All struggle is vain. That is the last lesson. Yet this is not the coward's love of death, not the love of the weak, or the suicide. It is the welcome of the strong man, who has sounded everything to its depths, and KNOWS that there is no alternative "
- Swami Vivekananda
IISc - DYNAMIC VISION OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Day before yesterday - 29th July, is the birth anniversary of Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata - JRD Tata. My single pointed urge was to know what was it that laid the foundation of such a great empire and establishement of INDIAN institute of Science [ IISc ] at Bangalore. Swami Vivekananda puts it { as only he could do, You become hyptonic to his words } " Throughout the history of Mankind, if any motive power has been MORE potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves born with the consciousness that they were to be great, they become great. "
This is undoubtedly one of the primary reasons for any person to become great and to rise to infinite heights of greatness, which Tata Empire has reached. My further research took me way back in time to the year 1893, when Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata { The Great grandfather of JRD Tata } and Swami Vivekananda meet on a ship from Japan to Chicago. At first, both of them introduced each other, after which Swamiji asked Nausserwanji Tata where he was going and what was the mission?
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata said, “ Swamiji, I am going with a mission to bring steel industry to country.” For which Swamiji said, “It is indeed a beautiful mission. My best wishes. However, I would like to give you a small caution. Whatever amount you spend to get the process of making steel simultaneously you should learn the metallurgical science of making steel also. I would prefer you to start an Institute, a laboratory to do advanced research on the Subject “
Subsequent to this discussion, Swamiji requested Maharaj of Mysore in a letter to donate the land for the research laboratory. Due to the immense respect the Mysore Maharaj had for Swamiji, he gladly agreed for donation of land. Five years later, recalling the incident Nausserwanji Tata wrote a letter to Swami Vivekananda stating,
“I trust, you remember me as a fellow – traveler on your voyage from Japan to Chicago. I very much recall at the moment your views on the growth of the ascetic spirit in India…I recall these ideas in connection with my scheme of Research Institute of Science for India, of which you have doubtless hear or read “. As his grand speech’s at America, the vision of Swami Vivekananda intermingled with greatness of JN Tata is what we see at Bangalore’s - INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE { IISc} which has translated into an epoch light for the world; be it in mathematical, physical or space sciences.
I have always been questioned as to what is the reverence of Swami Vivekananda in today’s date? Let me state with no scope for argumentation nor contradiction that if not now, then when will reverence of Swami Vivekananda's dynamic vision be required? As Bagha Jatindranath puts it so eloquently,
“Who can understand the Greatness of Swamiji Vivekananda? India’s Greatness will exceed all limits IF she follows his words!?“
Is it not!?
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Rajhashekher BC - Raj
SATuRDAY, jULY 31, 2011
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Saturday, July 30, 2011
FATHER OF PLASTIC SURGERY - ACHARYA SUSHRUT (600 BCE) AN INDIAN
A genius who has been glowingly recognized in the annals of medical science. Born to sage Vishwamitra, Acharya Sudhrut details the first ever... surgery procedures in "Sushrut Samhita," a unique encyclopedia of surgery. He is venerated as the father of plastic surgery and... the science of anesthesia. When surgery was in its infancy in Europe, Sushrut was performing Rhinoplasty (restoration of a damaged nose) and other challenging operations.
In the "Sushrut Samhita," he prescribes treatment for twelve types of fractures and six types of dislocations. His details on human embryology are simply amazing. Sushrut used 125 types of surgical instruments including scalpels, lancets, needles, catheter and rectal speculums; mostly designed from the jaws of animals and birds. He has also described a number of stitching methods; the use of horse's hair as thread and fibers of bark. In the "Sushrut Samhita," and fibers of bark. In the "Sushrut Samhita," he details 300 types of operations.
The ANCIENT INDIANS were the pioneers in amputation, caesarian and cranial surgeries. Acharya Sushrut was a giant in the arena of medical science.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA'S DEFINITION OF PSYCHOLOGY
Swami Vivekananda's definition of Psychology {as only he could do!} : -
“It is the science of psychology that teaches us to hold in check the wild gyrations of the mind, place it under the control of the will, and thus free ourselves from its tyrannous mandates. PSYCHOLOGY is the science of sciences, without which all sciences and all other knowledge ARE WORTHLESS "
CRYING TO SIXTY MILLION GODS DOES NOT HELP !?
" Death means only a change of garment. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards. Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune. You have cried to all the GODS IN THE WORLD. Has misery ceased? The masses in India cry to SIXTY MILLION GODS, and still DIE LIKE DOGS.
Where are these gods?
The gods come to help you when you have succeeded. So what is the use? DIE GAME.This bending the knee to superstitions, this selling yourself to your own mind does not befit you, my soul. You are infinite, deathless, birthless. Because you are infinite spirit, it does not befit you to be a slave. Arise! Awake! Stand up and fight! DIE IF YOU MUST. There is none to help you. You are all the world. WHO CAN HELP YOU ? "
- Swami Vivekananda
Delivered In San Francisco, on May 28, 1900
[Page 38 from the book " Bhagavad Gita as Viewed by Swami Vivekananda ]
BECOME A DYNAMO OF SPIRITUALITY
" Do not spend your energy in talking but meditate in silence. Accmulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality " - Swami Vivekananda
WILL YOU STAND TO YOUR IDEALS EVEN IF THE WHOLD WORLD WANTS TO CRUSH YOU DOWN ?
" What is your motive? Are you sure that you are not actuated by greed of gold, by thirst for fame or power? Are you really sure that you can stand to your ideals and work on, even if the whole world wants to crush you down? Are you sure you know what you ...want and will perform your duty, and that alone, even if your life is at stake? Are you sure that you will persevere so long as life endures, so long as there is one pulsation left in the heart? Then you are a real reformer, you are a teacher, a Master, A BLESSING TO MANKIND "
- Swami Vivekananda
From the Book : - Bhagavad Gita as viewed by Swami Vivekananda - PAGE 50
STAND FIRM LIKE A ROCK - TRUTH ALWAYS TRIUMPHS
STAND FIRM LIKE A ROCK - TRUTH ALWAYS TRIUMPHS
" Stand firm like a rock. Truth always triumphs. What india wants is a NEW ELECTRIC FIRE to stir up a fresh vigour in the national veins. This was ever, and always will be, slow work. Be content to work, and, above all, be true to yourself. Be pure, staunch, and sincere to the very backbone
,and everything will be all right.
My task will be done, and I shall be quite content to die, if I can bring up and launch one hundred such men over India "
- Swami Vivekananda
541 Dearborn Avenue, Chicago, 1894.
" Stand firm like a rock. Truth always triumphs. What india wants is a NEW ELECTRIC FIRE to stir up a fresh vigour in the national veins. This was ever, and always will be, slow work. Be content to work, and, above all, be true to yourself. Be pure, staunch, and sincere to the very backbone
,and everything will be all right.
My task will be done, and I shall be quite content to die, if I can bring up and launch one hundred such men over India "
- Swami Vivekananda
541 Dearborn Avenue, Chicago, 1894.
DO YOU LOVE YOUR COUNTRY ?
Do you love your country? Then come, let us struggle for HIGHER and BETTER things....
- Swami Vivekananda
ORIENTAL HOTEL YOKOHAMA. 10th July, 1893.
INDIA TO BRING LIFE AND VIGOR INTO THE DECAYING RACES OF MANKIND
" This is the land from whence, like the tidal waves, spirituality and philosophy have again and again rushed out and deluged the world, and this is the land from whence once more such tides must proceed in order to bring life and vigor into the decaying races of mankind.
It is the same India that has withstood the shocks of centur...ies, of hundreds of foreign invasions, of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land that stands firmer than any rock the world, with its undying vigor, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, IMMORTAL, and we are the children of such a country. "
- Swami Vivekananda
BEHOLD! INDIA'S IDEAL IS SPIRIT - THAT ALONE EXISTS
During his second visit to the west when some persons challenged him that Hindu Philosophy had failed to lift up their own society, Vivekananda's voice literally thundered on them like Moses throwing the Ten Commandments on the Israelites :
" YES, we have buried all the old nations of earth and stand here to bury all the new races als...o, because our ideal is not this world, but the other. Just as your ideal is, so shall you be. If your ideal is mortal, if your ideal is of this earth, so shalt thou be. If your ideal is matter, matter thou shalt be. BEHOLD! Our ideal is SPIRIT. That alone exists. Nothing else exists and like Him we live for EVER!"
IT IS NO USE INDULGING IN CHILD'S PLAY - NEITHER IS THERE TIME FOR IT.
IT IS NO USE INDULGING IN CHILD'S PLAY - NEITHER IS THERE TIME FOR IT.
" We want thousands of men and thousands of women who will spread like wild fire from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, from the North Pole to the South Pole — all over the world. It is no use indulging in child's play — neither is there time for it. Let those who hav...e come for child's play be off now, while there is time, or they will surely come to grief. We want an organisation. Off with laziness. Spread! Spread! RUN LIKE FIRE TO ALL PLACES. Do not depend upon me. Whether I live or die, go on spreading, yourselves "
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XLV Brothers
THE DEDT WHICH WORLD OWES TO INDIA
" The debt which the world owes to our Motherland is immense. Taking country with country, there is not one race on this earth to which the world owes so much as to the patient Hindu, the mild Hindu. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist, when Rome was not thought of, when the very fathers of the modern Europeans lived in the forests and painted themselves blue.
- Swami Vivekananda
FIRST PUBLIC LECTURE IN THE EAST January 15, 1897
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
What is worry? And how can worry be conquered?
Dale Carnegie {whose books were sold next to any of the religious books} wrote a book “Stop Worrying and Start living“; But irony of human mind is that it has stopped living but has started worrying. So two imparative questions stand; What is worry? And how can worry be conquered?
Best remedy to conquer worry IS " To substitue work with worry "
Sunday, July 24, 2011
THREE STAGES WHICH EACH WORK HAS TO PASS THROUGH
" Each work has to pass through these stages - RIDICULE, OPPOSITION, AND THEN ACCEPTANCE. Each who thinks ahead of his time is sure to be misunderstood. So opposition and persecution are welcome, only I have to be steady and pure and must have immense faith in God, and ALL THESE WILL VANISH "
- Swami Vivekananda
Thousand Island Park, 9 July 1895
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“Swamiji was full-blooded masculine personality and a fighter to the core of his being. He was consequently a worshipper of Shakti and gave a practical interpretation to the Vedanta for the upliftment of his countrymen”
- Subhash Chandra Bose
THE STUDY OF MAN FOR FIFTY CENTURIES
“The best and most brilliant brains of India retained to forest and put themselves to the study of man from all possible angles; to the extrusion of their capacities; to the exclusion of all other pursuits and this was carried out for fifty long centuries. The result was Vedanta. ”
– Swami Vivekananda
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Vivekananda was a soul of puissance if ever there was one, a very lion among men, but the definitive work he has left behind is quite incommensurate with our impression of his creative might and energy. We perceive his influence still working gigantically, we know not well how, we know not well where, in something that is not yet formed, something leonine, grand, intutive, upheaving that has entered the soul of India and we say, "Behold, Vivekananda still lives in the soul of his Mother and in the souls of her children "
Saturday, July 23, 2011
CHANDRASHEKAR TIWARI TO CHANDRASHEKAR AZAD - 23 July 1906
We did not get independence all of a sudden. Behind independent India, there is infinite history of freedom struggle and life sacrifice of Indian’s. Unfortunately even the most educated in the society does not even know the minuscule detail of freedom struggle which was carried out for India independence. If someone is asked [ starting from a kid to an eldest person ] as to...How India got independence? The preprogrammed answer would be; India got independence because of Mahatma Gandhi’s non violent movement. With complete and perfect respects of those movements of Mahatma Gandhi let us plunge and reveal for ourselves the history’s truth of Indian freedom struggle.
Mahatma Gandhi’s contribution for liberation of India is too huge to confine in the words. In history of his time and tenure, if there was any person more famous then GOD, it was our Mahatma Gandhi. He was like a resurgent saint who had resurged with single motive of seeing an Independent India. He used pinch of salt, a thread of cotton and a single grass as nuclear weapons against the British Empire. And, even if the Indian Ocean were an inkstand, the highest mountain of the Himalaya the pen, the earth the scroll and time itself the writer still it will not express our gratitude to him. But to believe that because of only non violent movements India got independence is not the truth and is also off tangent to Mahatma Gandhi’s believed Truth.
In addition to these movements of his, there was a prevalent violent freedom struggle of 130 years. During these 130 years, India lost six and half lack freedom fighters who were in between the tender age group of 23 –28 years. Today is the birth anniversary of one such youth – CHANDRASEKAR TIWARI [ 23 July 1906 ]
In Dec 1921, when Mahatma Gandhi Launched the Non – Cooperation Movement, so many students came out their schools and colleges to join the movement. Chandrasekher Tiwari was also one of them, who not only actively participated in the protest movement, but also faced the brutal conflict with the police. As a result he was arrested and received his first punishment at the teen age of fifteen and a half years {15 and ½ years}.
For this act of civil disobedience, when the magistrate asked his name, he immediately replied- "Azad" meaning bondless. When he was asked to tell his father's name, he told- My Father’s name! Who can keep 100 judges like you under his feat is my father. His name is “SWATANTRA “meaning self-esteemed. [An answer given by a 15 and ½ years old kid]. The magistrate became annoyed and asked in a rough tone- "Where is thy abode?" Without any hesitation he answered- "Jailkhana" meaning prison.
Then the magistrate tried to teach him a lesson for his nonsense replies. He immediately ordered him for a fifteen days' imprisonment. Over the punishment he again commented- "Sir! I had correctly mentioned my abode because I knew you will certainly keep me there." The people present in the court laughed very loudly over the reply of Chandra Shekhar. The magistrate, who had totally lost his temper, asked the policemen to punish him with the strong strokes of fifteen lashes. For which Chandrasekhar Azad says: - “Honorable Judge do you think that I have stolen chicken. Instead I have hit a police man of British Empire. At least I should get 30 strikes”
With each stroke of the whip he shouted boldly- "Bharat Mata Ki Jai !" (en.hail my motherland). From that point onwards, Chandra Shekhar assumed the title of 'Azad' and came to be known as Chandra Shekhar 'Azad'.
At the end of 15 strikes the blood was pouring from his body muscles but there were no tears in his eyes. After which he was given milk to drink; Azad said that he would not drink milk till India gets freedom. Prison jailer as per rules paid him ONE AND HALF QUARTER rupees for his first aide. Chandrasekhar Azad taking one and half quarter rupees; He [Azad] says “To wipe the boots of the British Queen is your duty not mine. Give this one and half quarter rupees to your Queen. And tell her, that it is gift from a fifteen year old INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER“. This is Indian spirit.
He further says you have caught me while I was sitting in a class room. I will challenge you that I will fight against you till the last breathe of my life and till I see Independent India and will never be caught alive.
In the last week of Feb, 1931 Azad went to Allahabad and meet Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru to convince him to persuade Gandhiji to talk to the Viceroy Lord Irwin in reaching an agreement with the British Government in the forthcoming Gandhi-Irwin Pact. Azad met Pandit Nehru in the early morning of 27 Feb, 1931 at his residence Anand Bhawan in Allahabad. He tried to convince Nehru but the result was not fruitful. Instead of getting convinced by arguments Nehru asked Azad to leave his place go away from there. Azad could not tolerate it at all and moved away murmuring something in his mouth.
From Anand Bhawan he reached straightforward to the Alfred Park on his bicycle. He sat under a tree of Jamun (in. Hindi) after standing his bicycle behind the tree. He was discussing some confidential matter with Sukhdev Raj who was a man of his party. In the meantime a police jeep arrived there. Deputy Superintendent of Police Bisheshwar Singh alongwith S.S.P.(C.I.D.) John Nott-Bower got down from the jeep. Within a few minutes a huge number of policemen surrounded the whole ground of Alfred Park. During the initial encounter, Azad suffered a severe bullet wound in his right thigh, making it difficult for him to escape. But even than he made it possible for Sukhdev Raj to escape away by providing him a cover fire. After Sukhdev Raj escaped, Azad managed to keep the police at bay for a long time. Finally, with only one bullet left in his pistol after being completely surrounded and outnumbered, Chandra Shekhar Azad SHOT HIMSELF, KEEPING HIS PLEDGE TO NEVER BE CAPTURED ALIVE....
Just came back after seeing news that 100 acres out of 2, 500 acres of Military Land [ which is of critical importance in Srinagar ] has been sold to a private owner. Our youths give their lives and nerveless, nerve dead people sell our land for greed of money ?
Does it not make your blood boil!?
- Thanks
Rajhashekher BC - Raj
SATuRDAY, jULY 23, 2011
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Mahatma Gandhi’s contribution for liberation of India is too huge to confine in the words. In history of his time and tenure, if there was any person more famous then GOD, it was our Mahatma Gandhi. He was like a resurgent saint who had resurged with single motive of seeing an Independent India. He used pinch of salt, a thread of cotton and a single grass as nuclear weapons against the British Empire. And, even if the Indian Ocean were an inkstand, the highest mountain of the Himalaya the pen, the earth the scroll and time itself the writer still it will not express our gratitude to him. But to believe that because of only non violent movements India got independence is not the truth and is also off tangent to Mahatma Gandhi’s believed Truth.
In addition to these movements of his, there was a prevalent violent freedom struggle of 130 years. During these 130 years, India lost six and half lack freedom fighters who were in between the tender age group of 23 –28 years. Today is the birth anniversary of one such youth – CHANDRASEKAR TIWARI [ 23 July 1906 ]
In Dec 1921, when Mahatma Gandhi Launched the Non – Cooperation Movement, so many students came out their schools and colleges to join the movement. Chandrasekher Tiwari was also one of them, who not only actively participated in the protest movement, but also faced the brutal conflict with the police. As a result he was arrested and received his first punishment at the teen age of fifteen and a half years {15 and ½ years}.
For this act of civil disobedience, when the magistrate asked his name, he immediately replied- "Azad" meaning bondless. When he was asked to tell his father's name, he told- My Father’s name! Who can keep 100 judges like you under his feat is my father. His name is “SWATANTRA “meaning self-esteemed. [An answer given by a 15 and ½ years old kid]. The magistrate became annoyed and asked in a rough tone- "Where is thy abode?" Without any hesitation he answered- "Jailkhana" meaning prison.
Then the magistrate tried to teach him a lesson for his nonsense replies. He immediately ordered him for a fifteen days' imprisonment. Over the punishment he again commented- "Sir! I had correctly mentioned my abode because I knew you will certainly keep me there." The people present in the court laughed very loudly over the reply of Chandra Shekhar. The magistrate, who had totally lost his temper, asked the policemen to punish him with the strong strokes of fifteen lashes. For which Chandrasekhar Azad says: - “Honorable Judge do you think that I have stolen chicken. Instead I have hit a police man of British Empire. At least I should get 30 strikes”
With each stroke of the whip he shouted boldly- "Bharat Mata Ki Jai !" (en.hail my motherland). From that point onwards, Chandra Shekhar assumed the title of 'Azad' and came to be known as Chandra Shekhar 'Azad'.
At the end of 15 strikes the blood was pouring from his body muscles but there were no tears in his eyes. After which he was given milk to drink; Azad said that he would not drink milk till India gets freedom. Prison jailer as per rules paid him ONE AND HALF QUARTER rupees for his first aide. Chandrasekhar Azad taking one and half quarter rupees; He [Azad] says “To wipe the boots of the British Queen is your duty not mine. Give this one and half quarter rupees to your Queen. And tell her, that it is gift from a fifteen year old INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER“. This is Indian spirit.
He further says you have caught me while I was sitting in a class room. I will challenge you that I will fight against you till the last breathe of my life and till I see Independent India and will never be caught alive.
In the last week of Feb, 1931 Azad went to Allahabad and meet Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru to convince him to persuade Gandhiji to talk to the Viceroy Lord Irwin in reaching an agreement with the British Government in the forthcoming Gandhi-Irwin Pact. Azad met Pandit Nehru in the early morning of 27 Feb, 1931 at his residence Anand Bhawan in Allahabad. He tried to convince Nehru but the result was not fruitful. Instead of getting convinced by arguments Nehru asked Azad to leave his place go away from there. Azad could not tolerate it at all and moved away murmuring something in his mouth.
From Anand Bhawan he reached straightforward to the Alfred Park on his bicycle. He sat under a tree of Jamun (in. Hindi) after standing his bicycle behind the tree. He was discussing some confidential matter with Sukhdev Raj who was a man of his party. In the meantime a police jeep arrived there. Deputy Superintendent of Police Bisheshwar Singh alongwith S.S.P.(C.I.D.) John Nott-Bower got down from the jeep. Within a few minutes a huge number of policemen surrounded the whole ground of Alfred Park. During the initial encounter, Azad suffered a severe bullet wound in his right thigh, making it difficult for him to escape. But even than he made it possible for Sukhdev Raj to escape away by providing him a cover fire. After Sukhdev Raj escaped, Azad managed to keep the police at bay for a long time. Finally, with only one bullet left in his pistol after being completely surrounded and outnumbered, Chandra Shekhar Azad SHOT HIMSELF, KEEPING HIS PLEDGE TO NEVER BE CAPTURED ALIVE....
Just came back after seeing news that 100 acres out of 2, 500 acres of Military Land [ which is of critical importance in Srinagar ] has been sold to a private owner. Our youths give their lives and nerveless, nerve dead people sell our land for greed of money ?
Does it not make your blood boil!?
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SATuRDAY, jULY 23, 2011
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
IS INDIA LAGGING BY CENTURIES ? or IS IT THAT WORLD IS LAGGING BY INCREMENTAL CENTURIES ?
Sciences Had Their Origin In India:
“There is no end to the power a man can obtain. This is the peculiarity of the Indian mind, that when anything interests it, it gets absorbed in it and other things are neglected. You know how many sciences had their origin in India. Mathematics began there. You are even today counting 1, 2, 3, etc. to zero, after Sanskrit figures, and you all know that algebra also originated in India, and that gravitation was known to the Indians thousands of years before Newton was born”
After reading these lines of Swami Vivekananda, it is of laughable fact to listen to intellectuals of the world saying - "But for coercion of Western Scientific inventions to India, it (India) would have remained lagging by centuries ".
First Nuclear Weapons Test Of Atomic Bomb:
Instead of getting into the reason why these perceptions of intellectuals are wrong, NOW!!! Let us continue towards the central theme of today’s greatness in history. Today of July 16th of 1945 is when first nuclear weapons test of Atomic Bomb was conducted by United States Army - " Code Named : Trinity “. Two days before the Trinity Test, Oppenheimer “Father of the atomic bomb” expressed his hopes and fears by quoting a quotation from Bhagavad Gita:
“In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,
In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
The good deeds a man has done before defend him”
After witnessing the mushroom cloud resulting from the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb in New Mexico, U.S.A; J. Robert Oppenheimer again quotes from Bhagavad – Gita saying: - If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. . . . Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds“
Permutational Questions To Reflect On This Momentous Day Are:
Was this first test ever done on Nuclear Energy and Atomic Science? And is J. Robert Oppenheimer the first to be called “The Fatherof the Atomic Bomb" and should John Dalton be considered the pioneer of Atomic Theory?
Research of history literature does fall shot to shed light on the direction to proceed in answering these questions...Web site's, test books of world does state these facts, but is there truth in it? And for certain even J. Robert Oppenheimer who, having bathed in India literature of Knowledge would accept that he should be the first to be called the “Father of Atomic Bomb" Nor Will John Dalton (English chemist, meteorologist and physicist best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory sometimes referred to as Daltonism) would accept these facts.
For the reason, 2500 years before John Dalton (Born 6 September 1766) there was an Indian known as ACHARYA KANAD (600 BC). He is believed to have been born in Prabhas Kshetra near Dwarika in Gujarat and was the pioneer expounder of realism, law of causation and the atomic theory. He has classified all the objects of creation into nine elements, namely: earth, water, light, wind, ether, time, space, mind and soul. He says, "Every object of creation is made of atoms which in turn connect with each other to form molecules." His statement ushered in the Atomic Theory for the first time ever in the world (Nearly 25 centuries before John Dalton). Acharya Kanad had also described the dimension and motion of atoms and their chemical reactions with each other.
The eminent historian, T.N. Colebrook, has said, "Compared to the scientists of Europe, Kanad and other Indian scientists were the global masters of this field."
Is India lagging by centuries Or Is it that World is lagging by incremental centuries when compared to Indian Scientists and Indian mind !?
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“There is no end to the power a man can obtain. This is the peculiarity of the Indian mind, that when anything interests it, it gets absorbed in it and other things are neglected. You know how many sciences had their origin in India. Mathematics began there. You are even today counting 1, 2, 3, etc. to zero, after Sanskrit figures, and you all know that algebra also originated in India, and that gravitation was known to the Indians thousands of years before Newton was born”
After reading these lines of Swami Vivekananda, it is of laughable fact to listen to intellectuals of the world saying - "But for coercion of Western Scientific inventions to India, it (India) would have remained lagging by centuries ".
First Nuclear Weapons Test Of Atomic Bomb:
Instead of getting into the reason why these perceptions of intellectuals are wrong, NOW!!! Let us continue towards the central theme of today’s greatness in history. Today of July 16th of 1945 is when first nuclear weapons test of Atomic Bomb was conducted by United States Army - " Code Named : Trinity “. Two days before the Trinity Test, Oppenheimer “Father of the atomic bomb” expressed his hopes and fears by quoting a quotation from Bhagavad Gita:
“In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,
In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
The good deeds a man has done before defend him”
After witnessing the mushroom cloud resulting from the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb in New Mexico, U.S.A; J. Robert Oppenheimer again quotes from Bhagavad – Gita saying: - If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. . . . Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds“
Permutational Questions To Reflect On This Momentous Day Are:
Was this first test ever done on Nuclear Energy and Atomic Science? And is J. Robert Oppenheimer the first to be called “The Fatherof the Atomic Bomb" and should John Dalton be considered the pioneer of Atomic Theory?
Research of history literature does fall shot to shed light on the direction to proceed in answering these questions...Web site's, test books of world does state these facts, but is there truth in it? And for certain even J. Robert Oppenheimer who, having bathed in India literature of Knowledge would accept that he should be the first to be called the “Father of Atomic Bomb" Nor Will John Dalton (English chemist, meteorologist and physicist best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory sometimes referred to as Daltonism) would accept these facts.
For the reason, 2500 years before John Dalton (Born 6 September 1766) there was an Indian known as ACHARYA KANAD (600 BC). He is believed to have been born in Prabhas Kshetra near Dwarika in Gujarat and was the pioneer expounder of realism, law of causation and the atomic theory. He has classified all the objects of creation into nine elements, namely: earth, water, light, wind, ether, time, space, mind and soul. He says, "Every object of creation is made of atoms which in turn connect with each other to form molecules." His statement ushered in the Atomic Theory for the first time ever in the world (Nearly 25 centuries before John Dalton). Acharya Kanad had also described the dimension and motion of atoms and their chemical reactions with each other.
The eminent historian, T.N. Colebrook, has said, "Compared to the scientists of Europe, Kanad and other Indian scientists were the global masters of this field."
Is India lagging by centuries Or Is it that World is lagging by incremental centuries when compared to Indian Scientists and Indian mind !?
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I AM THE FEAR OF FEAR, THE TERROR OF TERROR
To Sister Nivedita SAN FRANCISCO, 26th May, 1900.
DEAR NIVEDITA,
All blessings on you. Don't despond in the least. Shri wah Guru! Shri wah Guru! You come of the blood of a Kshatriya. Our yellow garb is the robe of death on the field of battle. DEATH FOR THE CAUSE IS OUR GOAL, NOT SUCCESS. Shri wah Guru! . . .
...
Black and thick are the folds of sinister fate. But I am the master. I raise my hand, and lo, they vanish! All this is nonsense. And fear? I am the FEAR OF FEAR, the TERROR OF TERROR, I AM THE FEARLESS secondless One, I am the Rule of destiny, the Wiper-out of fact. Shri wah Guru! Steady, child, don't be bought by gold or anything else, and we win!
- Swami Vivekananda
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BLESSINGS TO NIVEDITA
The mother's heart, the hero's will,
The sweetness of the southern breeze,
The sacred charm and strength that dwell
On Aryan altars, flaming, free;
All these be yours, and many more
No ancient soul could dream before --
Be thou to India's future son
The mistress, servant, friend in one.
With the blessings of Vivekananda
Written to Sister Nivedita
DEAR NIVEDITA,
All blessings on you. Don't despond in the least. Shri wah Guru! Shri wah Guru! You come of the blood of a Kshatriya. Our yellow garb is the robe of death on the field of battle. DEATH FOR THE CAUSE IS OUR GOAL, NOT SUCCESS. Shri wah Guru! . . .
...
Black and thick are the folds of sinister fate. But I am the master. I raise my hand, and lo, they vanish! All this is nonsense. And fear? I am the FEAR OF FEAR, the TERROR OF TERROR, I AM THE FEARLESS secondless One, I am the Rule of destiny, the Wiper-out of fact. Shri wah Guru! Steady, child, don't be bought by gold or anything else, and we win!
- Swami Vivekananda
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BLESSINGS TO NIVEDITA
The mother's heart, the hero's will,
The sweetness of the southern breeze,
The sacred charm and strength that dwell
On Aryan altars, flaming, free;
All these be yours, and many more
No ancient soul could dream before --
Be thou to India's future son
The mistress, servant, friend in one.
With the blessings of Vivekananda
Written to Sister Nivedita
The Hindu ( Indian's ) systems of astronomy are by far the OLDEST
Jean-Sylvain Bailly, French Astronomer ,(1736-1793):
“The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus ( Indian's ) BEFORE some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19th century).
…The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the OLDEST and THAT from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge ”
“The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus ( Indian's ) BEFORE some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19th century).
…The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the OLDEST and THAT from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge ”
THE WICKED CRITICISE THE CONDUCT OF THE MAGNANIMOUS
My Dear (Swami Ramakrishnananda), CHICAGO, 1894 - IN PART
Never mind, Great men like you should pay no heed to what Mazoomdar says. Shall we, children of Shri Ramakrishna, nourished with his heart's blood, be afraid of WORM - BITES ?
"The wicked criticise the conduct of the magnanimous, which is extraordinary and whose motives are difficult to fathom" (Kalidasa's Kumârasambhavam)
Remember all this and forgive this fool. It is the will of the Lord that people of this land have their power of introspection roused, and does it lie in anybody to check His progress? I want no name — I want to be a voice without a form. I do not require anybody to defend me — Who am I to check or to help the course of His march? And who are others also? Still, my heartfelt gratitude to them.
" Established in which state a man is not moved even by great misfortune" (Gita) — that state he has not reached; think of this and look upon him with pity. Through the Lord's will, the desire for name and fame has not yet crept into my heart, and I dare say never will. I AM AN INSTRUMENT, AND HE IS THE OPERATOR. Through this instrument He is rousing the religious instinct in thousands of hearts in this far-off country. Thousands of men and women here love and revere me. . . . "
" He ( Sri Ramakrishna ) MAKES THE DUMB ELOQUENT AND MAKES THE LAME CROSS MOUNTAINS". I am amazed at His grace. Whichever town I visit, it is in an uproar. They have named me "the cyclonic Hindu". Remember, it is His will — I am a voice without a form.
A movement which half a dozen penniless boys set on foot and which now bids fair to progress in such an accelerated motion — is it a humbug or the Lord's will? If it is, then let all give up party-spirit and jealousy, and UNITE IN ACTION.
My heart's love to all.
Ever yours in love,
- VIVEKANANDA
Never mind, Great men like you should pay no heed to what Mazoomdar says. Shall we, children of Shri Ramakrishna, nourished with his heart's blood, be afraid of WORM - BITES ?
"The wicked criticise the conduct of the magnanimous, which is extraordinary and whose motives are difficult to fathom" (Kalidasa's Kumârasambhavam)
Remember all this and forgive this fool. It is the will of the Lord that people of this land have their power of introspection roused, and does it lie in anybody to check His progress? I want no name — I want to be a voice without a form. I do not require anybody to defend me — Who am I to check or to help the course of His march? And who are others also? Still, my heartfelt gratitude to them.
" Established in which state a man is not moved even by great misfortune" (Gita) — that state he has not reached; think of this and look upon him with pity. Through the Lord's will, the desire for name and fame has not yet crept into my heart, and I dare say never will. I AM AN INSTRUMENT, AND HE IS THE OPERATOR. Through this instrument He is rousing the religious instinct in thousands of hearts in this far-off country. Thousands of men and women here love and revere me. . . . "
" He ( Sri Ramakrishna ) MAKES THE DUMB ELOQUENT AND MAKES THE LAME CROSS MOUNTAINS". I am amazed at His grace. Whichever town I visit, it is in an uproar. They have named me "the cyclonic Hindu". Remember, it is His will — I am a voice without a form.
A movement which half a dozen penniless boys set on foot and which now bids fair to progress in such an accelerated motion — is it a humbug or the Lord's will? If it is, then let all give up party-spirit and jealousy, and UNITE IN ACTION.
My heart's love to all.
Ever yours in love,
- VIVEKANANDA
THIS IS INDIA!
Mark Twain ON INDIA - American Author (1835-1920):
“THIS IS INDIA!
The land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendour and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of a hundred nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of tradition, whose yesterdays bear date with the mouldering antiquities of the rest of the nations – the one sole country under the sun that is endowed with an imperishable interest for alien persons, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a GLIMPSE, WOULD NOT GIVE THAT GLIMPSE FOR ALL THE SHOWS OF ALL THE REST OF THE GROBLE COMBINED. Even now, after a lapse of a year, the delirium of those days in Bombay has not left me and I hope it never will”
“THIS IS INDIA!
The land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendour and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of a hundred nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of tradition, whose yesterdays bear date with the mouldering antiquities of the rest of the nations – the one sole country under the sun that is endowed with an imperishable interest for alien persons, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a GLIMPSE, WOULD NOT GIVE THAT GLIMPSE FOR ALL THE SHOWS OF ALL THE REST OF THE GROBLE COMBINED. Even now, after a lapse of a year, the delirium of those days in Bombay has not left me and I hope it never will”
TO MY BRAVE BOYS
TO MY BRAVE BOYS
( Swami Vivekananda, New York, 19 Nov.1894 )
Ninety per cent of human brutes you see are dead, are ghosts — for none lives, my boys, but he who loves. Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad — then pour the so...ul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help, and indomitable energy. STRUGGLE, STRUGGLE, was my motto for the last ten years. STRUGGLE, still say I. When it was all dark, I used to say, STRUGGLE; when light is breaking in, I still say, STRUGGLE. Be not afraid, my children. Look not up in that attitude of fear towards that infinite starry vault as if it would crush you.
WAIT! In a few hours more, the whole of it will be under your feet. Wait, money does not pay, nor name; fame does not pay, nor learning. It is love that pays; it is character that cleaves its way through adamantine walls of difficulties.
Onward, my brave boys — money or no money — men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.
Take care! Beware of everything that is untrue; stick to truth and we shall succeed, maybe slowly, but surely. Work on as if I never existed. Work as if on each of you depended the whole work. FIFTY CENTURIES ARE LOOKING ON YOU, the future of INDIA depends on you. Work on. I do not know when I shall be able to come. This is a great field for work. They can at best praise in India, but they will not give a cent for anything; and where shall they get it, beggars themselves? Then, they have lost the faculty of doing public good for the last two thousand years or more. They are just learning the ideas of nation, public, etc. So I need not blame them.
Blessings to you all!
- Swami Vivekananda
All the convergent influences of the world run through this SOCIETY
" All the convergent influences of the world run through this society: Hindu, Moslem, Christian, Secular; Stalinist, liberal, Maoist, democratic socialist, Gandhian. There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or East that is not active in some Indian Mind”
- E.P. Thompson
NOT WAITING TO HEAR ANY FOOL'S JUDGMENT OF ME
Letter to Alasinga, ( IN PART )
1st July, 1895.
I know, my son, I shall have to come and manufacture men out of you. I know that India is only inhabited by women and eunuchs. So do not fret. I will have to get means to work there. I do not put myself in the hands of imbeciles. You need not worry, do what little you can. I have to work ...alone from top to bottom….” This Atman(self) is not be reached by cowards.” You need not be afraid for me. The Lord is with me, you defend yourselves only and show me you can do that: and I will be satisfied. Don’t bother me any more with what anyone says about me. I am not waiting to hear any fool’s judgment of me. You babies, great results are attained only by great patience, great courage, and great attempts….Kid’s mind is taking periodic somersaults, I am afraid…
The brave alone do great things, not the cowards. Know once for all, you faithless one, that I am in the hands of the LORD. So long as I am pure and His servants, not a hair of my head will be touched….Do something for the nation, then they will help you, then the nation will be with you. Be brave, be brave! Man dies but once. MY DISCIPLES MUST NOT BE COWARDS.
Ever yours with love, VIVEKANANDA.
1st July, 1895.
I know, my son, I shall have to come and manufacture men out of you. I know that India is only inhabited by women and eunuchs. So do not fret. I will have to get means to work there. I do not put myself in the hands of imbeciles. You need not worry, do what little you can. I have to work ...alone from top to bottom….” This Atman(self) is not be reached by cowards.” You need not be afraid for me. The Lord is with me, you defend yourselves only and show me you can do that: and I will be satisfied. Don’t bother me any more with what anyone says about me. I am not waiting to hear any fool’s judgment of me. You babies, great results are attained only by great patience, great courage, and great attempts….Kid’s mind is taking periodic somersaults, I am afraid…
The brave alone do great things, not the cowards. Know once for all, you faithless one, that I am in the hands of the LORD. So long as I am pure and His servants, not a hair of my head will be touched….Do something for the nation, then they will help you, then the nation will be with you. Be brave, be brave! Man dies but once. MY DISCIPLES MUST NOT BE COWARDS.
Ever yours with love, VIVEKANANDA.
ASSIMILATED FIVE IDEAS AND MAKE THEM YOUR LIFE
To the Americans a century ago he said that the only value of Knowledge is in strengthening and disciplining of the mind. By education, he meant not just a mass of information that " runs riot undisgested' all through our life. Information running riot is a common phenomenon today in universtities and colleges. It is " assimilation of... ideas," Vivekananda pointed out, that creates great personalities:
" If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library. If education were identical with information, the libratires would be the greatest sages in the world and encyclopaedias the Rishis "
- Swami Vivekananda
Sunday, July 10, 2011
MAN MAKER OF HIS DESTINY
In London, a young man used to come to me and ask me, "What will become of me next year?" I asked him why he asked me so." I have lost all my money and have become very, very poor". Money is the only God of many beings. Weak men, when they lose everything and feel themselves weak, try all sorts of uncanny methods of making money, and come to astrology and all these things. “It is the coward and the fool who says, "This is fate'" - so says the Sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says, "I will make my fate." It is people who are getting old who talk of fate. Young men generally do not come to astrology. We may be under planetary influence, but it should not matter much to us. Buddha says, "Those that get a living by calculations of the stars by such art and other lying tricks are to be avoid"; and he ought to know, because he was the greatest Hindu ever born. Let stars come, what harm is there? If a star disturbs my life, it would not be WORTH A CENT. You will find that astrology and all these mystical things are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food and rest.
If you can get an explanation of phenomena from within its nature, it is nonsense to look for an explanation from outside. If the world explains itself, it is nonsense to go outside for an explanation. Have you found any phenomenon in the life of a man that you have ever seen which cannot be explained by the power of the man himself? So what is the use of going to the stars or anything else in the world? My own Karma is sufficient explanation of my present state. So in the case of Jesus himself. We know that his father was only a carpenter. We need not go to anybody else to find an explanation of his own power. He was the outcome of his own past, all of which was a preparation for that Jesus. Buddha goes back and back to animal bodies and tells us how he ultimately became Buddha. So what is the use of going to stars for explanation? They may have a little influence; but it is our duty to ignore them rather than hearken to them and make ourselves nervous. This I lay down as the first essential in all I teach: ANYTHING THAT BRINGS SPIRITUAL, MENTAL, OR PHYSICAL WEAKNESS, TOUCH IT NOT WITH THE TOES OF YOUR FEET.
- Swami Vivekananda
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