Swami Vivekananda 150th Birth Anniversary

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Swami Vivekananda 150th Birth Anniversary

• Dr.T.V.Rao MD
• Email doctortvrao_at_gmail.com

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Swami Vivekananda

• Born in Calcutta on January 12, 1863, Swami
  Vivekananda was the chief disciple of Sri
  Ramakrishna. He was a marvellous blend of all
  excellences. Eager to know if God is true and
  perceptible, he was guided to Sri Ramakrishna who
  assured him from his personal realization that
  God is the only Reality and can be communed with.
  Questioning the Master at every step and
  accepting nothing without rigorous proof, he was
  able to be in tune with the Infinite.

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Knowing more of Swami Vivekananda

• Swami Vivekananda needs no introduction, for his
  is a household name in India. Swami was one of
  the greatest spiritual leaders of the modern
  world, a great lover of humanity whose
  unconditional love extended to all people without
  any distinctions of caste, class, creed, race,
  region or religion. Swami Vivekananda is also
  remembered as a great patriot, the first cultural
  ambassador of India to the West, who raised the
  prestige of India in the eyes of Western people
  and changed their views about India with the
  compelling force to truth.

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Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna

• Swami Vivekananda ( 1863 - 1902) was a preacher
  of 'Divinity in Man'. Born Narendranath Dutta on
  12 January, 1863 in Calcutta , he gave clear
  indications of self-realisation in his early
  days. A youth of guts and gumption -- with an
  iron determination and a fiery zeal to seek  the
  highest knowledge of the self, he met Sri
  Ramakrishna at the Dakshineswar Kali temple in
  1881 the incident that channelised himself later
  on towards the greatest cause of humanity. The
  Great Master inculcated in his foremost disciple
  the presence of an all-pervading stream of
  consciousness in every being, the immanence... 

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Put India on religious map of universe

• After the Master's passing away he took upon
  himself the great mission of propagating the
  truth of oneness, the universality of being, the
  harmony of religions, and the glory of the Atman.
  He put India on the spiritual map of the world by
  his famous addresses at the Parliament of
  Religions held in Chicago in 1893.

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WELCOME ADDRESS Sept 11, 1893Sisters and
Brothers of America,changes the image of India

• It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in
  response to the warm and cordial welcome which
  you have given us. I thank you in the name of the
  most ancient order of monks in the world I thank
  you in the name of the mother of religions, and I
  thank you in the name of millions and millions of
  Hindu people of all classes and sects.

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Are we still neglecting the masses is our
growth is artificial ???

• Swami Vivekananda had identified the neglect of
  the masses as the major problem. He had said the
  masses had forgotten their individuality and lost
  faith in themselves. The one-sided growth story
  in India today has neglected the masses.
  Vivekananda's solution was to restore people's
  confidence in themselves.

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Ramakrishna math propagates higher values of life

• He made Vedanta popular in the West, and in India
  he established the twin organizations, the
  Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission, in
  1897, to train those who had renounced the world
  in search of God and to integrate the activities
  of individuals who chose to serve fellow men
  and women unselfishly. His brilliant speeches and
  writings constitute a rich legacy for all
  who care for the higher values of life.

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Swami Vivekananda on greatness of India

• As I look back upon the history of my country, I
  do not find in the whole world another country
  which has done quite so much for the improvement
  of the human mind.

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Swami Vivekanandas religion is upliftment of
co-humans

• On Monday, September 11, 1893, Swami Vivekananda
  addressed an audience of seven thousand at the
  Worlds Parliament of Religions in Chicago. He
  was a delegate of no particular faith, dogma, or
  sect, but one who represented the Universal
  Religion of the Vedas and spoke for the spiritual
  upliftment of all humanity. The swami did not
  condemn or criticize any faith, believing that
  all religions were equally valid paths to reach
  the one goal. But he warned of the dangers that
  would come if the message of harmony of religions
  continued to be ignored or neglected

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Swami emphasizes India is punya bhumi

• Is there is any land on this earth that can lay
  claim to be the blessed Punya Bhumi, to be the
  land to which all souls on this earth must come
  to account for Karma, the land to which all the
  souls in the world must come for its last home,
  the land where humanity has attained its highest
  towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards
  purity, towards calmness, above all, the land of
  introspection and of Spirituality - it is India.
  Here is life giving water with which must be
  quenched the fire of materialism burning millions
  of hearts in other lands.

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Love to co-humans is real strength in you

• All love is expansion, all selfishness is
  contraction. Love is therefore the only law of
  life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is
  dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it
  is law of life, just as you breathe to live. 

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You are the creator of your destiny

• Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole
  responsibility on your own shoulders, and know
  that you are the creator of your own destiny. All
  the strength and succor you want is within
  yourself. Therefore make your own future.

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Weak minds do sins

• Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and
  those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The
  brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to
  be brave, try to be sympathizing.

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Take up idea try to achieve best in .Too many
ideas do not land you anywhere

• Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life -
  think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the
  brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body,
  be full of that idea, and just leave every other
  idea alone. This is the way to success. 

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We can achieve success with practice of

• Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three
  essentials to success and, above all, love.

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Work on few essentials do not work in many ideas

• Books are infinite in number and time is short.
  The secret of knowledge is to take what is
  essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

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Experience is your real Teacher follow it

• Experience is the only teacher we have. We may
  talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not
  understand a word of truth until we experience it
  ourselves.

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Realize you are everything there
is a divinity in you

• All power is within you. You can do anything and
  everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that
  you are weak do not believe that you are
  half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays.
  Stand up and express the divinity within you.

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Wiping the tears is my religion

• I do not believe in a God or religion which
  cannot wipe the widow's tears or bring a piece of
  bread to the orphan's mouth. However sublime be
  the theories, however well - spun may be the
  philosophy -- I do not call it religion so long
  as it is confined to books and dogmas. The eye is
  in the forehead and not in the back. Move onward
  and carry into practice that which you are very
  proud to call your religion and God bless you!

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Wish to be a free man

• If you think that you are bound, you remain
  bound you make your own bondage. If you know
  that you are free, you are free this moment. This
  is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is
  the goal of all nature.  

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Wish to experience the truth in your work

• Let us work without desire for name or fame or
  rule over others. Let us be free from the triple
  bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this
  truth is with us!

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Practice of religion should be a joy

• We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not
  make religion. Religion should be the most joyful
  thing in the world, because it is the best.

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He thanks the humanity for propagation of
universal brother hood

• My thanks to those noble souls whose large hearts
  and love of truth first dreamed this wonderful
  dream and then realized it. My thanks to the
  shower of liberal sentiments that has overflowed
  this platform. My thanks to this enlightened
  audience for their uniform kindness to me and for
  their appreciation of every thought that tends to
  smooth the friction of religions. A few jarring
  notes were heard from time to time in this
  harmony. My special thanks to them, for they
  have, by their striking contrast, made general
  harmony the sweeter.

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Wish to attain grace of god

• God is very merciful to those whom He sees
  struggling heart and soul for spiritual
  realization. But remain idle, without any
  struggle, and you will see that His grace will
  never come.

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Celebrating 150th birth anniversary of Swami
Vivekananda-many striving for hunger free world

• International Youth Conference on Integral
  Humanism is the first conference of its kind, to
  be organized at global level to commemorate the
  150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. The
  venue of this conference is the pious land of
  Pantnagar University, the Harbinger of Green
  Revolution in India. World aspires for a
  hunger-free and prosperous humanity and Pantnagar
  University has been whole-heartedly striving for
  it for last five decades

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Look forward for success

• Don't look back - forward, infinite energy,
  infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and
  infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be
  accomplished.

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Wish to attain GOD

• God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be
  weak. You have infinite strength within you. How
  else will you conquer anything? How else will you
  come to God?

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Swami vivekanda realises the power of his actions
are attained from
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Swami passes away while praying for masses

• 4th July 1902 was a memorable day. Swami
  Vivekananda, a great prophet of modern India,
  passed away at about 900 pm while he was in
  meditation. The flame of his life-lamp, which
  brightened the spiritual world, suddenly blew out
  in the deep darkness of night

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The Malaysian postal stamp released on August 2,
2011 by Revered General Secretary Maharaj Swami
Prabhanandaji to commemorate the 150th Birth
Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.
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150th birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda is
celebrated with a mission

• The 150th birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda
  is celebrated from 2010 to 2014. To commemorate
  it Ramakrishna Mission is organizing various
  projects for integrated child development, for
  the improvement of childrens health by
  eliminating malnutrition, for empowerment of
  women, and for alleviating poverty.

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The programme created on 15oth anniversary
celebrations of Swami Vivekananda whose
philosophy guides me in all turbulent
timesDr.T.V.Rao MD