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³I am a voice without a form´

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³My words are spirit and life.They will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them´ Swami Vivekananda

Prophet of Holy-Land: IndiaProphet of Divinity of Man

Prophet of Universal Hinduism Saviour-Prophet of the Masses

Prophet of Mother Power Prophet with a Message to the West



Swami VivekanandaWho is Swami Vivekananda?

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Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863--4 July 1902) the prophet of

the modern world, was born in Calcutta, and educated there. He

was perfectly rational, and would never believe in anything unless

he himself experienced it. His search for God or Truth began even

when he was a child. His search led him to Sri Ramakrishna [1836-

1886], who had practised all the spiritual paths with success, and

had realized that all paths lead to the same goal. Under his teacher,

Sri Ramakrishna, he got training in spirituality. Vivekananda

attained the highest experience in spiritual life very soon. Later, he

had countless spiritual experiences every day. He had Nirvikalpa

Samadhi several times. He then set about to understand the

condition of his country and the world at large. Vivekananda

travelled all over India and he understood that the world needed positive, life-giving ideas and participated in the Parliament of

Religions in Chicago in 1893.

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Vivekananda declared the necessity of the harmony of

religions there. He was the first prophet to declare this.

Apart from this, Vivekananda had the heart of the

universal mother. He wept to see the pitiable condition of

the people²some suffering from want of food and

clothing, some suffering from want of peace, some

suffering from other problems.

Why were people suffering? Ignorance was the answer.

Vivekananda understood that the solution to all problems

was in understanding our true nature. We are not the body,

or the mind. We are the eternal Self, the Atman. Not

knowing our reality, we hold on to false things and go on

suffering in life. Vivekananda therefore called upon

humanity to give up negative notions and know the truth

about ourselves. His words are powerful²coming as they

are from the mouth of the prophet. Let us read them, and

emulate them in our lives.




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SkebÀ meefÜÒee yengOee Jeo




This life is precious.

We are wasting this precious life in ordinary,

meaningless things and enjoyments.

Let us seek something meaningful.

Let us go forward to know greater things.

Let us once and for all give up the idea that

we are sinners, useless people, and so on.

Let us know that we are the Atman.


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My ideal, indeed can be put into a few words, and that is:

to preach unto mankind their Divinity, and how to make it

manifest in every movement of life.

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³Narendra belonged to a very high plane ± the realm of the Absolute.

³I had a vision of the Indivisible Satchidananda inside it was seated

Narendra immersed in Samadhi.

³Narendra is perfect from his very birth.

³He walks with the unsheathed sword of knowledge.

³The burning fire of purity and knowledge in him burns out everythingthat comes into his orbit, just as an all-consuming fire burns out even

the Banana tree. He is a blazing, roaring fire consuming all impurities

to ashes.

³Naren will teach the world, when he will thunder with the voice of

God both at home and abroad.


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³He has eighteen extraordinary powers, one or two of which are sufficient to make a manfamous in the world.´

(Sri Ramakrishna on Narendranath Dutta later Swami Vivekananda)

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Vivekananda was a CONDENSED INDIA ± Sister Nivedita

Real FATHER OF INDIAN NATIONALISM

± Bal Gangadhar Tilak

A Yogi of highest spiritual level in direct communion with thetruth who had for the time being consecrated his whole life to

the moral and spiritual uplift of his nation and of humanity. The

foundation of the present freedom movement owes its origin to

Swamiji¶s message.

± Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

He was barely thirty, young with an ageless youth and yet withal old with the wisdom of

the ancient times.

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I believe in patriotism, and I also have my own ideal of patriotism.Three things are necessary for great achievements :

First, feel from the heart. What is in the intellect or reason? It

goes a few steps and there it stops. But through the heart comes

inspiration.

Love opens the most impossible gates; love is the gate to all the

secrets in the universe. Feel, therefore, my would-be reformers,my would-be patriots! Do you feel? Do you feel that the millions

and millions of the descendants of gods and of sages have become

next-door neighbours to brutes? Do you feel that millions have

been starving today, and millions have been starving for ages? Do

you feel that ignorance has come over the land as a dark cloud?

Does it make you restless? Does it make you sleepless? Has it

gone over your blood, coursing through your veins, becoming consonant with your heart-

beats? Has it made you almost mad? Are you seized with the one idea of misery and ruin,

and have you forgotten all about your name, your fame, your wives, your children, your

property, even your own bodies? Have you done that? This is the first step to become a

patriot, the very first step.......







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You may feel, then; but instead of spending your energies onfrothy talk, have you found any way out, any practical solution,

some help instead of condemnation, some sweet words to soothe

their miseries, to bring them out of this living death?

Yet that is not all. Have you got the will to surmount mountain

high obstructions?

If the whole world stands against you sword in hand, would youstill dare to do what you think is right? If your wife and children

are against you, if all your money goes, your name dies, your

wealth vanishes, would you still stick to it? Would you still pursue

it and go on steadily towards your own goal? As the great King

Bhartruhari says :

³Let the sages blame or let them praise; let the goddess of fortune come or let her go

wherever she likes; let death come today, or let it come after millions of years; he indeed is

the steady man who does not move one inch from the way of truth.´ (Niti-sataka, verse 74)

Have you got that steadfastness?

If you have these three things, each one of you will make miracles.







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Prophet of Holy-Land: India

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Prophet of Divinity of Man

Saviour-Prophet of the Masses

Prophet of Universal Hinduism

Prophet with a Message to the West

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Prophet of the Mother Power

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³This is the land from whence, like the tidal waves, spirituality and

philosophy have again and again rushed out and deluded the world,

and this is the land from whence, once more such tides must

proceed in order to bring life and vigour into the decaying races of

mankind. It is the same India, which has withstood the shocks of

hundreds centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions, of hundredsof upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land, which

stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour,

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.

³I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself buton account of my ancestry.

³Our heroes must be spiritual. Such a hero has been given to us in the person of

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. If this nation wants to rise, take my word for it, it will have to

rally enthusiastically round this name.´







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³National union in India must be a gathering up of its sacred

spiritual forces. A nation in India must be a union of those whose

hearts beat to the same spiritual tune. For the sake of the national

life, you have to get a hold on spirituality and keep to it.

³If you give up that spirituality, leaving it aside, and rush after the

materializing civilizations of the West, the result will be that inthree generations you will be an extinct race.

³India¶s gift to the world is light spiritual.´- Swami Vivekananda

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 can keep

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³The 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 pained themselves blue.Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not

peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from then until now,

ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has

been spoken with a blessing behind it, and peace before it.´

India will be raised, not with the power of flesh, but with the power of the spirit; not with theflag of destruction, but with the flag of peace and love. One vision I see clear as life before me,

that the ancient Mother has awakened once more, sitting on Her throne--rejuvenated, more

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³Let New India arise²out of the peasants¶ cottage, grasping the

plough; out of the huts of the fisherman, the cobbler and the

sweeper. Let her spring from the grocer¶s shop, from beside the

oven of the fritter-seller, Let her emanate from the factory, from

marts, and from markets. Let her emanate from groves and forests,

from hills and mountains.´

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³The more, therefore, the Hindus study the past, the more glorious

will be their future, and whoever tries to bring their past to the door

of everyone, is a great benefactor to his nation. The degeneration

of India came not because the laws and customs of the ancients

were bad, but because they were not allowed to be carried to their

legitimate conclusions.´

³The national ideals of India are RENUNCIATION and SERVICE. Intensify her in those

channels, and the rest will take care of itself.´

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³Let us work hard, my brethren; this is no time for sleep. On our

work depends the coming of the India of the future. She is there

already waiting. She is only sleeping. Arise and awake, and see her

seated here, on her eternal throne, rejuvenated, more glorious than

she ever was²this Motherland of ours.´

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³Utter no words of condemnation, close your lips, and let your hearts open. Work out the salvation of this land and the whole

world, each of you thinking that the entire burden is on your

shoulders. Carry the light and the life of the Vedanta to every door,

and rouse up the divinity that is hidden within every soul.´

³Make your nerves strong. What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have weptlong enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men.´

³My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my

workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions. I have formulated the idea and have

given my life to it. They will spread from centre to centre, until we have covered the whole of

India´

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³O India! Forget not that the ideal of thy womanhood is Sita,

Savitri, Damayanti; forget not that the God thou worshippest is the

great ascetic of ascetics, the all-renouncing Shankara, the Lord of

Uma; forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for

sense pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness; forget

not that thou art born as a sacrifice to the Mother¶s altar; «forgetnot that the lower classes, the ignorant, the poor, the illiterate, the

cobbler, the sweeper, are thy flesh and blood, thy brothers.

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³Work unto death²I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life

comes and goes²wealth, 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 worldly worm. Advance!´

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³You must not depend on any foreign help. Nations like

individuals, must help themselves. This is real patriotism. If a

nation cannot do that, its time has not yet come. It must wait.




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"Hear, ye children of immortal bliss! Even ye that reside in higher

spheres! I have found the Ancient One who is beyond all darkness,

all delusion: knowing Him alone you shall be saved from death

over again."

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"Children of immortal bliss" -- what a sweet, what a hopeful name!

Allow me to call you, brethren, by that sweet name -- heirs of immortal

bliss -- yea, the Hindu refuses to call you sinners. Ye are the Children of

God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye divinities

on earth -- sinners! It is a sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel onhuman nature. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are

sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not

matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of

matter.



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³Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this

divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this

either by works, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy²by

one, or more, or all of these²and be free. This is the whole of

religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or

forms, are but secondary details.´³Go and preach to all: µArise, awake, sleep no more; within each

of you, there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries.

Believe this, and that power will be manifested.¶ If you can think

that infinite power, infinite knowledge, and indomitable energy lie

within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can

become like me.´



³This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being.

Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man.´



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³I go forth, to preach religion of which Buddhism is nothing but

a rebel child and Christianity, with all her pretensions, only a

distant echo.´

³I shall go to the Mosque of the Mohammedan; I shall enter the

Christian¶s church and kneel before his crucifix; I shall enter the

Buddhist temple, where I shall take refuge in Buddha and in hislaw. I shall go into the forest and sit down in meditation with the

Hindu, who is trying to see the Light which enlightens the heart

of everyone.´

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³His religion goes beyond the limits of creed´. ± Rabbi Grossman, in Detroit

³Vivekananda speaks to Humanity´. ± Romaine Rolland

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Vivekananda is not a Brahmin, is not a Buddhist, is not a Parsee,

is not a Mohammedan. He may be said to represent the best in all

of these. He speaks for the Universal Truth or the unification of

all truth. ± Free Press, USA. Oct 05,1893




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showing him the regard due to god he said,

³I know, Lord, you are that ancient

Rishi Narayana in the form of Nara [man]; you have again

incarnated your self in order to

remove the distress of mankind.´

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³I have lost all wish for my salvation, I never wanted earthly enjoyments; and may I be bornagain and again and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that

exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls; and above all, my God the wicked,

my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my

worship´ ± Swami Vivekananda


During Vivekananda¶s second visit to Dakshineshwar Sri Ramakrishna

stood before before him with folded palms and



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Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions in India²who are held

fast by poverty, priest-craft, and tyranny²pray day and night for them; I care more to

preach religion to them than to rich. I am poor, I love the poor.

Let new India arise« Let her arise ± out of peasants¶ cottages, grasping the plough, out of the

huts of fisherman, the cobbler and the sweeper. Let her spring from the grocer¶s shop,

from beside the oven of the fritter-seller. Let her emanate from groves and forests, fromhills and mountains.

Education, education, education alone! Travelling through many cities of Europe and

observing in them the comforts and education of even the poor people, there was brought

to my mind the state of our own poor people, and I used to shed tears. What made the

difference? EDUCATION was the answer I got.

The only service to be done for our lower classes is to give them education, to develop their lost individuality. Give them ideas²that is the only help they require, and then the rest

must follow as the effect. Ours is to put the chemicals together, the crystallization comes

in the law of nature. If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him.

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The very peculiarity of Hindu women which they have developed

and which is the ideal of their life, is that of the mother.

The mother is the God in our family. The idea is that the only real

love that we see in the world, the most unselfish love is in the

mother±always suffering, always loving. And what love can

represent the love of God more than the love, which we see in the

mother? Thus the mother is the incarnation of God in earth to the

Hindu.

The ideal of perfect womanhood is total independence. The central

idea of the life of modern Hindu lady is her chastity.



Total freedom and independence is the symbol of total womanhood.



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At the present time God should be worshipped as µMother¶, the

infinite energy. This will lead to purity, and tremendous energy

will come« We have to become Vedantists and live this grand

thought; the masses must get it. The new cycle must see the

masses living Vedanta, and this will have to come through women.Why is it that our country is the weakest and the most backward of

all countries?²Because Shakti is held in dishonour there.

³³e$e vee³e&mleg Hetp³evles jcevles le$e osJeleeë~´gods are pleased where

women are held in esteem´²says the old Manu.

The women of India must grow and develop in the footprints of

Sita, and that is the only way. Any attempt to modernise our

women, if it tries to take our women away from that ideal of Sita,

is immediately a failure, as we see every day.

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³I have a message for the West as Buddha had a message for the

East´

³The whole of the Western civilisation will crumble to pieces in

the next fifty years if there is no spiritual foundation. Europe,

the centre of manifestation of material energy, will crumble into

dust within fifty years if she is not mindful to change her

position, to shift her ground and make spirituality the basis of

her life. And what will save Europe is the religion of the

Upanishads.´


³The power to satisfy our desires is increased in arithmetical

progression, the power of desire is increased in geometrical progression.´


This great Hindu cyclone has shaken the world. (Californians said about Swami Vivekananda)



Swami VivekanandaSuccess Principles

³One of the greatest lessons I have learned in my life is to pay as much

attention to the means of work as to its end. I have been always learning

great lessons from that one principle, and it appears to me that all the

secret of success is there: to pay as much attention to the means as to

the end.´

³There is the danger of frittering away your energies by taking up an

idea only for its novelty, and then giving it up for another that is newer.

Take one thing up and do it, and see the end of it, and before you have

seen the end, do not give it up.´

³Take up one idea, make that one idea your life, think of it, dream of it,

live of it, let the brain, muscle, nerves, every part of your body be fullof that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way great

spiritual giants are produced, others are mere talking machines´


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³He who can become mad with an idea, he alone sees light.

Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never

attain anything. They may titillate their nerves for a moment, but

there it will end.´

³Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be

a master. Avoid this jealousy, and you will do great works that

have yet to be done´

³Nature wants us to react, to return blow for blow, cheating for

cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might, then it

requires a super divine power not hit back, to keep control, to be

unattached´


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³Misery comes through attachment, not through work. As soon as we identify ourselves with

work we do, we feel miserable; but if we don¶t identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that

misery´




³The great secret of true success, of true happiness, then, is this: the

man who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish man, is the most

successful. It seems to be a paradox. Do we not know that every

man who is unselfish in life gets cheated, gets hurt? Apparently, yes.

"Christ was unselfish, and yet he was crucified." True, but we know

that his unselfishness is the reason, the cause of a great victory -- thecrowning of millions upon millions of lives with the blessings of

true success.´

³The Upanishads have declared, "Arise! Awake! and stop not until

the goal is reached." We will then certainly cross the path, sharp as it

is like the razor, and long and distant and difficult though it be. Man

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Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great:

1. Conviction of the powers of goodness.

2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion.

3. Helping all who are trying to be good and do good.

³Do not recognize wickedness in others. Wickedness is ignorance,

weakness. What is the good of telling people they are weak?

Criticism and destruction are of no avail. We must give them

something higher; tell them of their own glorious nature, their

birthright.´

Unselfishness is more paying but people have little patience to practice it.


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³If there is any sin in the world, it is weakness;

avoid all weakness, for weakness is sin, weakness is

death´

³Strength is life, Weakness is death´

³The greatest sin is to think yourself weak´

³Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single

religious book, without going into a single Church or Temple or Mosque´

³He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religion said that he was an atheist

who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in

himself´



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³Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your

own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own

destiny´

³All the power is within you; you can do anything and everything.

Believe in that; don¶t believe that you are weak. Stand up and

express the divinity within you´

³What ever you think, that you will be. If you think yourself weak,

weak you will be; if you think yourself strong; strong you will be´


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Swami Vivekanandaeducation

Aim of Education:

Education is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

We must have life-building, man-making, character-making

assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and

made your life and character you have more education than any

man who has got by heart a whole library. We want that

education by which character is formed, strength of mind isincreased, intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on

one¶s own feet.

Method of Education:

To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind,

not the collecting of facts. If I had to do my education over again, and had any voice in the matter, I would not study facts at

all I would develop the power of concentration and detachment,

and then with the perfect instrument I could collect facts at will.


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Curriculum:In ancient times, people used to go to sages to learn wisdom

and to get answers to the fundamental questions of life. This

was seen in all ancient civilizations-Greece, India and China in

particular. However, over the centuries education has retreated

from that position. We no longer claim to give wisdom, we

give only information, our schools no longer give moral andspiritual values, only secular subjects are taught.

Role of the Teacher:

The only true teacher is he who can immediately come down to

the level of the student and transfer his soul to the student¶s

soul and see through the student¶s eyes and here through his

ears and understand through his mind. Such a teacher can really

teach and none else. «The only duty of the teacher is to

remove all obstructions from the way.


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Discipline:Another thing that we want is the abolition of that system

which aims at educating our boys in the same manner as that

of the man who battered his ass, being advised that it could

thereby be turned into a horse« We must give only positive

ideas. Negative ideas weaken men.

Do you not find that where parents are constantly taxing their

sons to read and write, telling them they will never learn

anything, and calling them fools and so forth, the latter do

actually turn out to be so in many cases?

If you speak kind words to boys and encourage them, they are

bound to improve in time.

Education is not the amount of information that is put into

your brain and runs riot there undigested all your life.


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Swami VivekanandaReligion and ethics

Unselfishness is God.

Religion is the idea which is raising the brute unto man, and man unto God.

The definition of God and man: Man is an infinite circle whose circumference is nowhere, but

the centre is located in one spot; and God is an infinite circle whose circumference is nowhere,

but whose centre is everywhere.

The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness.

The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness²that makes

him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power,

without holiness, makes human beings devils.


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Swami VivekanandaReligion and ethics

Virtue is that which tends to our improvement, and vice to our degeneration. Man is made up

of three qualities²brutal, human, and godly. That which tends to increase the divinity in you is

virtue, and that which tends to increase brutality in you is vice. You must kill the brutal nature

and become human, that is loving and charitable. You must transcend that too and become pure

bliss, Satchidananda, fire without burning, wonderfully loving, but without the weakness of

human love, without the feeling of misery.The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.

The ideal of Vedanta is to know man as he really is, and this is its message, that if you cannot

worship your brother man, the manifested God, how can you worship a God who is

unmanifested?


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View of Belur Math from the Ganga



Swami Vivekanandameditations


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³Let the dead past bury its dead.´ The infinite future is before you, and

you must always remember that each word, thought, and deed, lays up a

store for you and that as the bad thoughts and bad works are ready to

spring upon you like tigers, so also there is the inspiring hope that the

good thoughts and good deeds are ready with the power of a hundred

thousand angels to defend you always and for ever.Therefore, 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 succour you want is within yourselves.

Therefore, make your own future.

The dead never return; the past night does not reappear; a spent-up tidal wave does not rise

anew; neither does man inhabit the same body over again. So from the worship of the dead past,

O man, we invite you to the worship of the living present; from the regretful brooding over

bygones, we invite you to the activities of the present; from the waste of energy in retracing lost

and demolished pathways, we call you back to broad new-laid highways lying very near. He that

is wise, let him understand.





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Why are we here?

We came here to sip the honey, and we find our hands and feet sticking to it.

We are caught, though we came to catch. We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed.

We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked.

All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life. ...That is the onecause of misery: we are attached, we are being caught.

Therefore says the Gita:

µWork constantly; work, but be not attached; be not caught.¶





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There is hope for all. None can die; none can be degraded forever.

Life is but a playground, however gross the play may be.

However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we

may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.

Here we are in this world, and our nature rebels against it. But let

us repeat, ³I am It [the Self]; I am It. I have no fear, nor doubt,nor death. I have no sex, nor creed, nor colour. What creed can I

have? What sect is there to which I should belong? What sect can

hold me? I am in every sect!´

However much the body rebels, however much the mind rebels,

in the midst of the uttermost darkness, in the midst of agonizing

tortures, in the uttermost despair, repeat this, once, twice, thrice,

ever more. Light comes gently, slowly, but surely it comes.





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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.

What makes the difference between man and man is the difference

in this Shrddha [faith] and nothing else. What makes one man greatand another weak and low is this Shrddha. Be strong and have this

Shrddha, and everything else is bound to follow.

Many times I have been in the jaws of death, starving, footsore, and weary; for days and days I

had 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 theidea: ³I 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 awake and stop not!´ And I would rise up, reinvigorated, and

here am I, living, today.





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Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavour to

accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up other

men¶s ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish.

... Let every one do the best he can for realising his own ideal. Nor

is it right that I should be judged by your standard or you by mine.

The apple tree should not be judged by the standard of the oak, nor the oak by that of the apple. To judge the apple tree you must take

the apple standard, and for the oak, its own standard.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his

own highest ideal, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as

near as possible to the truth.

The truth of the ideal is in the practical. The fruition of the ideal has

been through the sensing of the practical. That the ideal is there is a

proof of the existence of the practical somehow, somewhere. The ideal may be vaster, yet it is

the multiplication of little bits of the practical. The ideal mostly is the summed-up, generalised,

practical units.

Ab S F i h & h M & D i Ed i R li i & E hi M di i S i





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The power of the ideal is in the practical. Its work on us

is in and through the practical. Through the practical, the

ideal is brought down to our sense-perception, changed

into a form fit for our assimilation. Of the practical we

make the steps to rise to the ideal. On that we build our

hopes; it gives us courage to work.

One man who manifests the ideal in his life is more

powerful than legions whose words can paint it in the

most beautiful colours and spin out the finest principles.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame,

nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave

through adamantine walls of difference.

Ab t S F ith & t th M & D ti Ed ti R li i & Ethi M dit ti S i



Swami VivekanandaService to man is service to god

You cannot help anyone, you can only serve; serve the children

of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege. If

the Lord grants that you can help any one of His children,

blessed you are; do not think too much of yourselves. Blessed

you are that that privilege was given to you when others had it

not. Do it only as worship.

My boy, if you have any respect for my words, the first thing I

will advise you to do is to throw open all the doors and windows

of your room. In your quarter there are lots of poor people sunk

in degradation and misery. You will have to go to them with your

zeal and enthusiasm. Arrange to distribute medicines to those

who are sick, and nurse them with all care, supply food to himwho is starving, teach with as much as lies in you the

ignorant; and if you begin to serve your brethren in this wise, I

tell you, my child, you will surely get peace and consolation.


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