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Title: Great Indians on


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  • Great Indians on
  • Swami Vivekananda

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  • Just as only an athlete understands another
    athlete, so also, only great men truly understand
    other great men.  
  • Let us have a look at what some of the great men
    of India have had to say of Swami Vivekananda

3
Rabindranath Tagore
  • v If you want to know India, study Vivekananda.
    In him everything is positive and nothing
    negative.

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Sri Aurobindo
  • v We perceive Vivekanandas influence still
    working gigantically, we know not well how, we
    know not well where, in something that is not yet
    formed, something leonine, grand, intuitive,
    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.

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Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • v Twelve centuries ago Sankaracharya was the
    only great personality, who not only spoke of the
    purity of our religion, not only uttered in words
    that this religion was our strength and wealth,
    not only said that it was our sacred duty to
    preach this religion in the length and breadth of
    the worldbut also brought all this into action.
    Swami Vivekananda is a person of that staturewho
    appeared towards the last half of the 19th
    century.

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Mahatma Gandhi
  • v I have gone through Vivekanandas works very
    thoroughly, and after having gone through them,
    the love that I had for my country became a
    thousand-fold.

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Jawaharlal Nehru
  • v Rooted in the past and full of pride in
    Indias prestige, Viveka-nanda was yet modern in
    his approach to lifes problems and was a kind of
    bridge between the past of India and her present.
    . . He was a fine figure of a man, imposing, full
    of poise and dignity, sure of himself and his
    mission, and at the same time full of a dynamic
    and fiery energy and a passion to push India
    forward

8
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
  • v Swamiji was a full-blooded masculine
    personality and a fighter to the core of his
    being. I can go on for hours and yet fail to do
    the slightest justice to that great man. He was
    so great, so profound, so complex. If he had
    been alive, I would have been at his feet.

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Vinoba Bhave
  • v Vivekananda not only made us conscious of our
    strength, he also pointed out our defects and
    drawbacks. . He taught us The same Soul resides
    in each and all. If you are convinced of this, it
    is your duty to treat all as brothers and serve
    mankind. . . . The word Daridra-narayana (God
    manifested in the hungry, destitute millions) was
    coined by Vivekananda and popularized by Gandhiji.

10
C. Rajagopalachari
  • v Swami Vivekananda saved Hinduism and saved
    India. But for him we would have lost our
    religion and would not have gained our freedom.
    We therefore owe everything to Swami Vivekananda.
    May his faith, his courage and his wisdom ever
    inspire us so that we may keep safe the treasure
    we have received from him.

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R.C. Majumdar
  • v Though an ascetic, Vivekananda was a patriot of
    patriots. The thought of restoring the pristine
    glory of India by resuscitating among her people
    the spiritual vitality which was dormant, but not
    dead, was always the uppermost thought in his
    mind. . .

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Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
  • v If there is any call which Vivekananda made to
    us, it is to rely on our own spiritual resources.
    . . Man has inexhaustible spiritual resources.
    His spirit is supreme, man is unique. . . . He
    told us Do not be led away by the appearances.
    Deep down there is a providential will, there is
    a purpose in this universe. You must try to
    co-operate with that purpose and try to achieve
    it.

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  • Before closing this presentation, let us recall
    that every year 12th January, Swami Vivekanandas
    birthday (according to English calendar), is
    celebrated as the National Youth Day all over the
    country. In 1985, while declaring this, the
    Government of India affirmed the philosophy of
    Swamiji and the ideal for which he lived could be
    a great source of inspiration for the Indian
    youth.

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Are the youth listening? Listening to Swamijis
eternal call reverberating through more than
hundred years? He said
  • My faith is in younger generation, the modern
    generation. They will work out the whole problem
    like lions. . .

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  • Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is
    reached!

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