Swami Vivekananda

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Swami Vivekanandas Message
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You are Divine. Manifest it.
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Who am I?

• Am I the body?
• Am I the physiological system?
• Am I the mind?
• Am I the intellect?
• Who am I?
• I am the master of all these.

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Man vs. Matter

• Man makes money. Money does not make man.
• I am higher than any object or situation.
• If I really want to be happy and peaceful under
  any situation, nothing can stop me.

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Free !!!

• I am inherently free.
• Unless I decide to get bound, nothing can bind
  me.
• Unless I let the situation overwhelm me, I am
  bigger than any situation.
• I always have the freedom and the right to be
  happy in any situation.
• As long as I keep trying, I have not failed.

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You are Divine

• Let eyes grow dim and heart grow faint, And
  friendship fail and love betray, Let Fate its
  hundred horrors send, And clotted darkness block
  the way. All nature wear one angry frown, To
  crush you out still know, my soul, You are
  Divine. March on and on, Nor right nor left but
  to the goal. 

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What is the Goal?

• Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to
  manifest this divinity within, by controlling
  nature, external and internal. Do this either by
  work, or worship, or psychic control, or
  philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these -
  and be free. This is the whole of religion.
  Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or
  temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

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Be Good, Do Good.

• Motto of Ramakrishna Math and Mission
• aatmano mokshaartam jagat hitaaya ca
• For self-liberation and welfare of the world
• Be Good. Do Good.

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Be Good

• Believe in being good.
• Strength is life. Weakness is death.
• Peace of mind is more important than being
  wealthy and famous.
• Be a master of your senses and mind.
• Identify your self with the spirit.

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Struggle

• Struggle is the sign of life.
• Everything is conscious which rebels against
  nature there, consciousness is manifested. Just
  try to kill a little ant, even it will once
  resist to save its life. Where there is struggle,
  where there is rebellion, there is the sign of
  life, there consciousness is manifested.

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Do Good

• Serve without any selfish motive.
• Never expect any material return.
• Your own inner development is the benefit.
• Work is worship.
• Serving the underprivileged is the way to please
  God.
• Not out of pity, but out of gratitude.

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Real Worship

• This is the gist of all worship to be pure and
  to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the
  poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really
  worships Shiva and if he sees Shiva only in the
  image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has
  served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in
  him, without thinking of his caste, or creed, or
  race, or anything, with him Shiva is more pleased
  than with the man who sees Him only in temples.

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Be a King

• Give, give, give.
• Dont be a beggar. Be a king.
• Expectation is slavery.
• Selfishness is sin.
• Expansion is life. Contraction is death.Love is
  life, and hatred is death.
• Have no place for jealousy. Celebrate and
  appreciate success of others.

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You are Divine. Manifest it.
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Arise !! Awake !!!

• Let every man and woman and child, without
  respect of caste or birth, weakness or strength,
  hear and learn that behind the strong and the
  weak, behind the high and the low, behind every
  one, there is that Infinite Soul, assuring the
  infinite possibility and the infinite capacity of
  all to become great and good.

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Arise !! Awake !!!

• Let us proclaim to every souluttishthata
  jagrata prapyavaran nibodhataArise, awake, and
  stop not till the goal is reached. Arise, awake!
  Awake from this hypnotism of weakness. None is
  really weak the soul is infinite, omnipotent,
  and omniscient. Stand up, assert yourself,
  proclaim the God within you, do not deny Him!

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Arise !! Awake !!!

• Teach yourselves, teach every one his real
  nature, call upon the sleeping soul and see how
  it awakes. Power will come, glory will come,
  goodness will come, purity will come, and
  everything that is excellent will come when this
  sleeping soul is roused to self-conscious
  activity.

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You are Divine. Manifest it.