FILL YOURSELVES WITH THE IDEAL

Do you know how many energy, how many powers, how many forces are still lurking behind that frame of yours ? What scientist has known all that is in man ? Millions of years have passed since man first came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface ? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.......

Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightness, your majesty, and your glory

- Swami Vivekananda
Page 493 { VIVEKANANDA AS THE TURNING POINT ]

NEVER FORGET THE GLORY OF HUMAN NATURE!

" Never forget the glory of human nature! We are the Greatest God...Christs and Buddhas are but waves on the boundless Ocean which I AM."

- Swami Vivekananda in America, 1895

THIS IS THE ESSENCE OF THE RELIGION OF THE VEDANTA !

First of all try to ameliorate the terrible distress that is prevailing everywhere, to still the heart-rending cry of your hungry countrymen for a morsel of food; after that come to me to have a debate on the Vedanta. To stake one's whole life and soul to save thousands who are dying of starvation -- this is the essence of the religion of the Vedanta!

So long as even a dog of my country remains without food, to feed and take care of him is my religion, and any thing else is either non - religion or false religion!

- Swami Vivekananda

CONSTANT PRAYER OF VIVEKANANDA

There is too much talk, talk, talk! We are great, we are great! Nonsense! We are imbeciles - that is what we are. This hankering after name and fame and all other humbugs - what are they to me? What do I care about them?......That you may catch my fire, that you may be intensely sincere, that you may die the heroes' death on the battlefield - is the constant prayer of Vivekananda.

- Swami Vivekananda
[From Swami Vivekananda - Leader of Sacred Nationhood - Flashes of Omniscience]
 

THE WHOLE OF NATURE CANNOT CRUSH ME; IT IS MY SERVANT.

Many times I have been in the jaws of death, starving, footsore, and weary; for days and days I had no food, and often could walk no farther; I would sink down under a tree, and life ...would seem ebbing away. I could not speak, I could scarcely think, but at last the mind reverted to one idea: "I have no fear nor death: I never hunger nor thirst. I am It ! I am It ! The whole of nature cannot crush me; it is my servant. Assert thy strength, thou Lord of Lords and God of gods ! Regain thy lost empire! Arise and walk and stop not!" And I would rise up, reinvigorated, and here am I, living today.

- Swami Vivekananda

MEDITATION

" There is the infinite joy, unchanging. Meditation is the gate that opens that to us. Prayers, ceremonials, and all the other forms of worship are simply kindergartens of meditation "

- Swami Vivekananda

NO COWARDICE

....If these scoldings don't make you brave, I shall have no more hopes of you. I want to see you die even, but you must make a fight. Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

- Swami Vivekananda
21 West 34 St..., New York, 21st November, 1899

I WANT BOLD, DARING, ADVENTUROUS SPIRITS TO HELP ME

The upshot of the whole thing is - I want bold, daring, adventurous spirits to help me. Else I will work alone. I have a mission to fulfil. I will work it out alone. I do not care who comes or who goes.

- Swami Vivekananda

BRAVO, MY COUNTRYMEN!

“.....a year has rolled by, and our countrymen could not even do so much for me as to say to the American people that I was a real Sannyasin and no cheat, and that I represented the Hindu religion. Even this much, the expenditure of a few words, they could not do! Bravo, my countrymen! I love them, Diwanji Saheb. Human help I spurn with my foot. He who has been with me through hills and dales, through deserts or forests, will be with me, I hope; if not, some heroic soul would arise some time or other in India, far abler than myself, and carry it out. So I have told you all about it. Diwanji, excuse my long letter, my noble friend, one of the few who really feel for me, have real kindness for me. You are at liberty, my friend, to think that I am a dreamer, a visionary; but believe at least that I am sincere to the backbone, and my greatest fault is that I love my country only too, too well “
*
- Swami Vivekananda
CHICAGO, 20th June, 1894


 

BOOKS AND LEARNING, YOGA AND MEDIATION

" Books and learning, Yoga and mediation and illumination - all are but dust compared with love. It is love that gives you the supernatural powers, love that gives you bhakti, love that gives illumination, and love, again, that leads to emanicpation "

- Swami Vivekananda
Page 342. Letters of Swami Vivekananda

HUMAN HELP I SPURN WITH MY FOOT.

Human help I spurn with my foot. He who has been with me through hills and dales, through deserts or forests, will be with me, I hope; if not some heroic soul would arise some time or other in India, far abler than myself and carry it out.

- Swami Vivekananda
Page 116. Letters of Swami Vivekananda

Stop Worshiping Actors and Start Worshiping Hero’s

IN OUR COUNTRY, IT IS A CASE OF ROUSING MEN THAT ARE, AS IT WERE, DEAD:

The subject line of this article does seem to be a contradiction. But factually it is not. Since it is mis – communicated, it is misunderstood to fullest possible extent. The fact is “An actor is one, who dies in a movie and comes back alive in next movie. But a hero is one, who dies only once and does not get a second chance to die again“. The fact is “An actor is one, who acts as if he is died to achieve the selfish motives {Lust, money and fame} in each movie of which comes his way. But a hero is one, who die’s for once own country only once and does not get a chance for retakes”. The fact is “An actor lives to see his movie released, even if he is assumed to be dead in the movie. But a hero does not live to see Indian freedom for which he willingly sacrificed his life“

Swami Vivekananda in connection to this state of human mind wrote these prophetic lines of 21st February 1900 from California, which has to be hung to every main door of India, if not every house of world. “It is only a few that understand the language of the brain, but everyone from the creator down to a clump of grass, understands the language that comes from the heart. But then, in our country, it is a case of rousing men that are, as it were, dead. It will take time, but if you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that “
Make no mistake; this statement of his is still alive, for human minds are still used to worship actors and not heroes. This state of human mind is to be considered as the highest order of intellectual irony which has to be realized and corrected if men have to be roused from there dead living state.
Six day’s from today – The 23rd March is the death anniversary of one such Indian HERO “ Bhagat Singh “. He gave his life for India ’s freedom at a tender age of 23 years, 5 months and 25 days. If Last day {s} of this immortal man is looked at keenly on this mortal earth of ours, it is both mesmerizing and sends raptures even to this day.

LAST DAYS OF BHAGAT SINGH, RAJGURU AND SUKHDEV:
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were sentenced to death in the Lahore Conspiracy Case and were ordered to be hanged on March 24, 1931.

Bhagat Singh a day before he was pronounced to be hanged had a very sound sleep. In today's date and time our youth do not get sleep if there examinations are scheduled to be held the next day or a day after. Forget our youth’s; Even so called elders, do not get sleep if an interview or a presentation is scheduled to be given the subsequent day. But here was Bhagat Singh at an tender age of 23 years, 5 months and 25 days, who even after knowing that he will be hanged next day had the tenacity and courage to have a sound deep sleep without a iota of worry. This is Indian Man’s Heart. It can be further acknowledged by the fact of reality by the actions of British Government, they did not have the courage nor the manhood to wait till scheduled date of pronounced death sentence for Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev; and had preponed the death sentence by eight hours.

At the time preponed time when Bhagat Singh was called by Jailer for hanging; Bhagat said “Wait for two minutes! I am reading last two pages of a book on Lenin. He was also a freedom fighter like me”. After completion of book he happily accompanied the Jailer towards the place where he was supposed to be hanged along with Rajguru and Sukhdev. There were only five people who were allowed to witness the execution; The Inspector General of Police, The Inspector General of Prison, and Lahore ’s Deputy Commissioner, Medical Officer and Superintendent of the Jail. One among the five asked:

“What was the reason for them to be so happy? “. For which Bhagat Singh said: “We three are going to be hanged in next few minutes. We are happy because each of you are very fortunate to witness us being hanged till death”.
Another asked Bhagat Singh: “You will be dead in next couple of minutes, then why do you consider us to be fortunate? “

For which Bhagat Singh replied: - “Out of thirty crore Indian’s, you are the fortunate five who are fortunate enough to see how three Indian’s are going to sacrifice there lives happly in service of there country! – Enjoy! “ [An answer given by a 23 years, 5 months 25 days boy]

More words seem irrelevant and unwarranted for…….Before, I let the silence take the centre stage to contemplate on such Indian sacrifice’s; Let this be a remainder that Bhagat Singh is death and we are alive but there is no difference between him and us. For, we are dead or will be considered to be dead if we don’t realize the need to know Indian History, It ’s struggles and it’s subtle sacrifices which it holds in it’s womb to be bestowed upon us – The Indian’s.

THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING HISTORY:

The importance of knowing Indian History is as important for as to the further of India. Again, Swami Vivekananda's words torrentially surfaces from highest possible echelons in the form of one of his replies written to Maharaja of Khetri { On March 4th, 1895 } where in he stress on the importance of knowing Indian History to its very subtleties:

“Nowadays everybody blames those who constantly look back to their past. It is said that so much looking back to the past is the cause of all India’s woes. To me, on the contrary, it seems that the opposite is true. So long as they forgot the past, the Hindu nation remained in a state of stupor; and as soon as they have begun to look into their past, there is on every side a fresh manifestation of life. It is out of this past that the future has to be moulded; this past will become the future “
Is it not!?

- Thanks
Rajhashekher BC - Raj
SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013




 

WORLD'S FIRST RELIGIOUS PARLIAMENT

EVERY MOMENT IS A NEW CHANCE

Every moment is a new chance
 


 - Swami Vivekananda
Reincarnation
(Delivered in Memphis on January 19, 1894: Reported in Appeal-Avalanche)

YOU HAVE IN YOU A THOUSAND TIME MORE THAN IS IN ALL THE BOOKS.

You have in you a thousand times more than is in all the books. Never lose faith in yourself, you can do anything in this universe. Never weaken, all power is yours.

- Swami Vivekanananda

INDIA WILL BE RAISED

OUR COUNTER - QUESTION HAS BEEN!!??

Are we then to go back to the days of the primitive caveman, the stone age! Our counter-question has been: Is the 24-hour cyber society created in the sci-tech era more natural, organic and humane than the bygone ages? Let us listen attentively to these philosophical truths of Swami Vivekananda uttered in London during the fall of 1896:

 

" As we increase our power to be happy, we also increase our power to suffer; and sometimes I am inclined to think that if we increase our power to become happy in arithmetical progression, we shall increase, on the other hand, our power to become miserable in geometrical progression. We who are progressing know that the more we progress, the more avenues are opened to pain as well as pleasure. And this is Maya.

- Swami Vivekananda
[ Swami Vivekananda - Leader of Sacred Nationhood ]

I SHALL MEDIATE ON THE HEART OF A LION. THAT GIVES STRENGTH.

Swamiji's first night at Camp Taylor [ Northern California ], May 2, 1900. I close my eyes and see him standing there in the soft blackness with sparks from the blazing log fire... flying through it and a day-old moon above. He was weary after a long lecture season, but relaxed and happy to be there. " We end life in the forest, " he said, " as we begin it, but with a world of experience between the two states." Later after a short talk, when we were about to have the usual mediation, he said: "You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall mediate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength." The bliss and power and peace of the meditation that followed could never be described.

- Swami Vivekananda
[ Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda: Ida Ansell ]See More

AN INDIAN LULLABY - THE SOUL NEVER KILLS OR IS KILLED

There was once a Hindu queen, who so much desired that all her children should attain freedom in this life that she herself took all the care of them; and as she rocked them to sleep, she sang always the one song to them - "Tat tvam asi, Tat tvam asi" ("That thou art, that thou art")

Three of them become Sannyasins [ monks ], but the fourth was taken away to be brought up elsewhere to become a king. As he was leaving ho...me, the mother gave him a piece of paper which he was to read when he grew to manhood. On that piece of paper was written, " God alone is true. All else is false. The soul never kills or is killed. Live alone or in the company of holy ones." When the young prince read this, he too at once renounced the world
and became a Sannyasin.

- Swami Vivekananda
VII. 89-90
[LULLABY - A soothing song with which to lull a child to sleep]

WORK INCESSANTLY

You should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do slave's work.

- Swami Vivekananda

HAVE FAITH IN MAN, WHETHER HE APPEARS TO BE AN ANGEL OR THE VERY DEVIL HIMSELF.

Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very devil himself. Have faith in man first, and then having faith in him, belive that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if the embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that the...y come, but from the want of higher ideals. You give him the truth, and there your work is done. Let him compare it in his own mind with what he has already in him; and, mark my words, if you have really given him the truth, the false must vanish, light must dispel darkness, and truth will bring the good out. Put the good before them, see how eargerly they take it, see how the divine that never dies, that is always living in the human, comes up awakened and stretches out its hand for all that is good, and all that is glorious.

- Swami Vivekananda

PURITY IS OUR REAL NATURE

To the believers of original sin, Vivekananda said in America:

" Be not deluded by your religion teaching original sin, for the same religion preaches original purity. When adam fell, he fell from purity, { Applause }. Purity is our real nature, and to regain that is the subject of all religion. "

- Swami Vivekananda 

THE VERY INCARNATION OF LORD SHIVA

“CHHARAPATI SHIVAJI MAHARAJ – THE VERY INCARNATION OF LORD SHIVA”

Two days from today, is the day when an great indian, was born - Whom Swami Vivekananda called as the very incarnation of lord Siva. 19 February, is the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. My words on Shivaji Maharaj is very limited, for how can we understand the grandeur of Shivaji Maharaj, by reading text books which were crafted during British role of India ? If I remember correctly, these test books only carried one page on him, out of which half page was his photo. But it is in these below words of Swami Vivekananda, that we as INDIANS should revisit this great Indian in the true spirit and try to imbibe him in our blood of this Indian body.

“ Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about whom prophecies were given out long before he was born; and his advent was eagerly expected by all the great souls and saints of Maharashtra as the deliverer of the Hindus from the hands of the Mlecchas, and as one who succeeded in the reestablishment of Dharma which had been trampled underfoot by the depredations of the devastating hordes of the Moghals ”

- Swami Vivekananda

“ Shivaji was one of the greatest national saviors who emancipated our society and our Dharma when they were faced with the threat of total destruction. He was a peerless hero, a pious and God-fearing king and verily a manifestation of all the virtues of a born leader of men described in our ancient scriptures. He also embodied the deathless spirit of our land and stood as the light of hope for our future”

- Swami Vivekananda
 

EACH ONE CAN ATTAIN THE HIGEST

 

If jesus could reach Chrsthood, if Siddhartha Gautama could reach Buddhahood, Vivekananda argued, each one can attain the higest if he or she so desires:

" If a thing happens once, it can happen again, we too can do so. If we cannot becom...e perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine. "

" What has it to do with you that Moses saw God in a burning bush ? The fact that Moses saw God in burning bush does not constitute your seeing him, does it ? If it does, then the fact that Moses ate is enough for you, you ought to stop eating. One is just a sensible as the other."

" It is not the study of external nature that makes [ one ] strong - But there is the internal nature of man - a million times more powerful than any volcanic eruption or any law of nature - which conquers nature, triumphs over all its laws, And that alone teaches man what he is."

- Swami Vivekananda
Page 100
[ From the book: Swami Vivekananda - Prophet and Pathfinder ]See More

WE WILL STOP AND COMPARE NOTES LATER ON.

" My children must be ready to jump into fire, if needed, to accomplish their work. Now work, work, work! We will stop and compare notes later on. Have patience, perseverance and purity. "

- Swami Vivekananda

WHAT IS RELIGION ?

What is religion? To pray, "Give me this and that"? Foolish ideas of religion! Those who believe them have no true idea of God and soul. My Master used to say, "The vulture rise higher and higher until he becomes a spec...k, but his eye is always on the piece of rotten carrion on the earth." After all, what is the result of your ideas of religion? To cleanse the streets and have more bread and clothes? Who cares for bread and clothes? Millions come and go every minute. Who cares? Why care for the joys and vicissitudes of this little world?

Go beyond that if you dare; go beyond law, let the whole universe vanish, and stand alone.

"I am Existence-Absolute, Knowledge-Absolute, Bliss-Absolute; I am He, I am He."

- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 3/Lectures and Discourses/The Free Soul

IN YOU IS ALL POWER.

 What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the self alone that predominates and not matter.

- Swami Vivekananda
(VI.274)

THE SIGN IS THAT GOOD OR ILL FORTUNE CAUSES NO CHANGE IN HIS MIND

It is very hard thing to understand, but you will come to learn in time that nothing in the universe has power over you until you allow it to exercise such a power. Nothing has power over the self of man, until the self becomes a fool and loses independence. So, by non - attachment, you overcome and deny the power of anything to act upon you. It is very easy to say that nothing has the right to act upon you until you allow it to do so; but what is the true sign of the man who really does not allow anything to work upon him, who is neither happy nor unhappy when acted upon by the external world? The sign is that good or ill fortune causes no change in his mind; in all conditions he continues to remain the same.

- Swami Vivekananda

IT IS IN THE NATURE OF THINGS THAT MANY HSOULD FALL, THAT TROUBLES SHOULD COME

It is in the natrue of things that many should fall, that troubles should come, that tremendous difficulties should arise, that selfishness and all the other devils in the human heart should struggle hard, when they are about to be driven out by the fire of spirituality. The road to the good is the roughest and steepest in the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed; no wonder that so many fall. Character has to be established through a thousand strumbles.

-Swami Vivekananda
{ VIII.383 }

INDIA WILL BE RAISED, NOT WITH THE POWER OF THE FLESH, BUT WITH THE POWER OF SPIRIT.

 

India will be raised, not with the power of the flesh, but with this power of the spirit; not with the flag of destruction but with the flag of peace and love, the garb of the Sannyasin; not by the power of wealth, but by the power of the begging bowl. Say not that you are weak. The spirit is omnipotent.

- Swami Vivekananda

THERE SHOULD NOT BE BREATH OF IMMORALITY, NOR A STAIN OF POLICY WHICH IS BAD.

I want that there should be no hypocrisy, no Jesuitism, no roguery. I have depended always on the Lord, always on Truth broad as the light of day. Let me not di...e with stains on my conscience for having played Jesuitism to get up name or fame, or even to do good. There should not be a breath of immorality, nor a stain of policy which is bad.

- Swami Vivekananda
TO MY BRAVE BOYS
(Written to Alasinga Perumal from New York on 19th November, 1894.)See More

...AND NOTHING CAN PREVENT OUR DEATH UNLESS WE COME BACK TO EXPANSION, WHICH IS LIFE

 

“Whatever cloak ancient or modern sophistry may try to throw over it, the inevitable result — the vindication of the moral law, that none can hate others... without degenerating himself — is that the race that was foremost amongst the ancient races is now a byword, and a scorn among nations. We are object-lessons of the violation of that law which our ancestors were the first to discover and disseminate.

Give and take is the law; and if India wants to raise herself once more, it is absolutely necessary that she brings out her treasures and throws them broadcast among the nations of the earth, and in return be ready to receive what others have to give her. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, and hatred is death. We commenced to die the day we began to hate other races; and nothing can prevent our death unless we come back to expansion, which is life”

- Swami Vivekananda
REPLY TO THE CALCUTTA ADDRESS
(Written from New York on Nov. 18, 1894, to Raja Pyari Mohan Mukherji, President of the public meeting held on Sept. 5, 1894 at the Calcutta Town Hall in appreciation of Swami Vivekananda's work in the West.)See More

...AND MORE LIGHT TO THE EDUCATED, FOR THE VANITIES OF THE EDUCATION OF OUR TIME ARE TREMENDOUS!

 Bring all light into the world. Light, bring light! Let light come unto every one; the task will not be finished till every one has reached t...he Lord. Bring light to the poor and bring more light to the rich, for they require it more than the poor. Bring light to the ignorant, and more light to the educated, for the vanities of the education of our time are tremendous! Thus bring light to all and leave the rest unto the Lord, for in the words of the same Lord "To work you have the right and not to the fruits thereof." "Let not your work produce results for you, and at the same time may you never be without work."

May He who taught such grand ideas to our forefathers ages ago help us to get strength to carry into practice His commands!

- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 3/Lectures from Colombo to Almora/Vedanta in its Application to Indian Life

IF YOU DARE OPPOSE THEM, TAKE IT UP; PUT THEIR TEACHINGS TO THE TEST.

When a Westernized Hindu spoke in a belittling manner of the " meaningless teachings " of the Vedic seers, the Swami { Swami Vivekananda } fell upon him with thunderbolt vehemence, crying out,

" How dare you criticize your venerable forefathers in such a fashion! A little learning has muddled your brain. Have you tested the science of the Rishis ? Have you even as much as read the Vedas ? There is the challenge thrown by the Rishis! If you DARE oppose them, take it up: put their teachings to the test. "

- Swami Vivekananda
[ Source: Alasinga Perumal - An illustrious disciple of Swami Vivekananda ]See More

IN EVERY ATTEMPT

" In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes "

- Swami Vivekananda 
25th September, 1894 NEW YORK
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XLVII Brother disciples

OUR MISERY COMES, NOT FROM WORK

" Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something "

- Swami Vivekananda

MOTION IS THE SIGN OF LIFE

I am thoroughtly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others, and whenever such an attempt has been made under false ideas of greatness, policy, or holiness, the result has always been disastrous to the secluding one. The fact of our isolation from all the other nations of the world is the cause of our degeneration, and its only remedy is getting back into the current of the world. Motion is the sign of life.


- Swami Vivekananda
( Quoted in The discovery of India, p, 402 )

ADVANCE LIKE A HERO

Advance like a hero. Don't be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happingess and misery ? When you have got the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say - I have reached the state of fearlessness!......

- Swami Vivekananda

MAKE YOUR LIFE A MANIFESTATION OF WILL

“Make your life a manifestation of will strengthened by Renunciation". 

“Put yourself to work and you will find such tremendous power coming to you that you will feel it hard to bear. Even the least work done for others awakens the power within" 

- Swami Vivekananda
[ From Book : PROPHET AND PATHFINDER - PAGE: 292 ]

BUT IT IS A TREMENDOUS TRUTH THAT IF THERE BE REAL WORTH IN YOU

 " But it is a tremendous truth that if there be real worth in you, the more circumstances against you, the more will that inner power manifest itself "

- Swami Vivekananda

AN EFFORT TO FIND THE PLACE:

Yesterday, returned from Madurai . Swami Vivekananda visited this city on 2nd February 1897. Was keen to visit the place where Swamiji made the speech [ Reply to the address of Welcome] during his visit. Vague idea, that this place is located near Madurai Railway station, started inquiring people…...The old, the young, the middle aged, government employees, railway police, people in reservation counters…etc. Inquiry went on for an hour, but no one had the clue about the place; forget the place, every one started starring at me with astonishment [nothing new]. From these reactions of people, I decided that these people, not only do not know the place, but they also have no clue of who Swami Vivekananda was..

Intent of me asking people was to find two things; to find the location of the place, and another was to find if people know about Swami Vivekananda. But neither, they knew the place nor did they know about Swami Vivekananda [Some of them had, the slightest remember of the Name “Swami Vivekananda”]. 

After this experience of mine, I am certain of one thing, “The people, who do NOT know Swami Vivekananda, let them remain as they are [silent and muted]. BUT people who know Swami Vivekananda, if they remain muted and silent without reading him, then we are to see disastrous catastrophe happening!!! Is it not!?

Thanks
Rajhashekher BC

WE MUST SEE RLIGION FACE TO FACE

Dear respected friends,

Just returned from Madurai, the city where Swamiji traveled. Saw the place [ MC school ] where Swamiji, gave a speech - Reply to the address of Welcome. Below transcript [in part] of the same address, gives the intensity with which he wanted India to raise.

“WE must see Religion face to face, experience it, and thus solve our doubts about it; and then standing up in the glorious light of Rishihood each one of us will be a giant; and every word falling from our lips will carry behind it that infinite sanction of security; and before us evil will vanish by itself without the necessity of cursing any one, without the necessity of abusing any one, without the necessity of fighting any one in the world. May the Lord help us, each one of us here, to realise the Rishihood for our own salvation and for that of others! "


- Swami Vivekananda
Reply to the Address of Welcome at Madura

WE WANT THAT, WE WANT THAT ENERGY, THAT LOVE OF INDEPENDENCE, THAT SPIRIT OF SELF - RELIANCE, THAT IMMOVABLE FORTITUDE, THAT RELIGION IN ACTION

 " What we should have is, what we have not, prehaps what our forefathers even had not, that which the Yananas (Greeks) had, that dynamism by whose vibration is issuing forth in rapid succession from the power - house of Europe, the electrific flow of tremendous energy vivifying the whole world. We want that, we want that energy, that love of independence, that spirit of self-reliance, that immovable fortitude, that religion in action, that bond of unity in purpose, that thirst for improvement "

- Swami Vivekananda

LIVING IN TRUTH

" If you remember what I say, think of it, and digest it, it will be yours, it will raise you higher, and make you capable of understanding and living in truth "

- Swami Vivekananda

THEN THE SOUL COMES OUT AS A GIANT AND LAUGHS AT THE IDEAL HE HAS BEEN STRUGGLING FOR.....

It is not truth, but development, that is the great aim. The struggle is the great lesson. Mind you, the great benefit in this life is struggle. It is through that we pass. If there is any road to Heaven, it is through Hell. Through Hell to Heaven is always the way. When the soul has wrestled with circumstance and has met death, a thousand times death on the way, but nothing daunted has struggled forward again and again and yet again—then the soul comes out as a giant and laughs at the ideal he has been struggling for, because he finds how much greater is he than the ideal. I am the end, my own Self, and nothing else…

- Swami Vivekananda

GIVE ME GENUINE MAN; I DO NOT WANT MASSES OF CONVERTS. MY SON, HOLD FAST!

Onward! Upon ages of struggle a character is built. Be not discouraged. One word of truth can never be lost; for ages it may be hidden under rubbish, but it will show itself sooner or later. Truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible. Give me a genuine man; I do not want masses of converts. My son, hold fast! Do not care for anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all human help? Be holy—trust in the Lord, depend on Him always, and you are on the right track; nothing can prevail against you.¹⁰

- Swami Vivekananda

NATURE - IF YOU DO NOT CARE FOR HER AT ALL, SHE BECOMES YOUR SLAVE

The more you fly from nature, the more she follows you; and if you do not care for her at all, she becomes your slave.
(Raja Yoga: Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms. Chapter II - Concentration: Its practice)

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.
(Raja Yoga: Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms. Chapter II - Concentration: Its practice)
- Swami Vivekananda

WORK, WORK, WORK - I CARE FOR NOTHING ELSE. WORK, WORK, WORK, EVEN UNTO DEATH!!!

It is that sort of work which can conquer the world. What do differences of sect and opinion matter? Bravo! Accept a hundred thousand embraces and blessings from me. Work, work, work — I care for nothing else. Work, work, work, even unto death! Those that are weak must make themselves great workers, great heroes — never mind money, it will drop from the heavens.

Yours with all love,
VIVEKANANDA.
15th June, 1897.

WE WANT GREAT SPIRIT, TREMENDOUS ENERGY, AND BOUNDLESS ENTHUSIASM, NO WOMANISHNESS WILL DO.

We want great spirit, tremendous energy, and boundless enthusiasm, no womanishness will do. Try to go on exactly as I wrote to you in my last. We want organisation. Organisation is power, and the secret of this is obedience.

Yours affectionately,
VIVEKANANDA.
63 ST. GEORGE'S ROAD, LONDON S.W.,
24th June, 1896.

THESE PEOPLE WILL GO ON THE NEGATIVE, TILL THEY ARE ACTUALLY REDUCTED TO NOTHING

It won't do merely to sit idle. You have done a heroic deed! Bravo! Those who falter and vacillate will lag behind, and you will jump straight on top of all! Those that are working for their own salvation will neither have their own nor that of others. Let the commotion that you make be such as to resound to the world's end. There are people who are ready to pick holes in everything, but when it comes to the question of work, not a scent of them can be had! To work! — as far as in you lies! Then I shall go to India and move the whole country. What fear! "Even a snake loses its venom if it is insisted that it has none." These people will go on the negative track, till they are actually reduced to nothing! . . .

- Swami Vivekananda
Jan., 1896.
 The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XCI Sarada