Swami Vivekananda - The Divine

Swami Vivekananda on Bhagavad Gita "From that ideal lover we come down to the lower stratum of Lord Shri Krishna , the preacher of the Gita . Than the Gita no better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written. The essence of the  Shrutis ,  or of the Upanishads, is hard to be understood, seeing that there are so many commentators, each one trying to interpret in his own way. Then the Lord himself comes, He who is the inspirer of the  Shrutis ,  to show us the meaning of them, as the preacher of the Gita, and today India wants nothing better, the world wants nothing better that that method of interpretation.  It is a wonder that subsequent interpreters of the scriptures, even commenting upon the Gita, many times could not catch the meaning, many times could not catch the drift. For what do you find in the Gita, and what in modern commentators? One non-dualistic commentator takes up an Upanishad; there are so many dualistic passages, and he ...

Swami Vivekananda's plan of work for India On 3 January 1895, Swami Vivekananda wrote a letter to Sir Subramanya Iyer from New York. The letter was later published with the title "A plan of work for India". In this letter he told, the work in India was well begun at that time, but it had to be kept up. He first suggested to establish a theosophical society at Madras (Chennai) and publish an English journal. He wrote— First, it would be well to open a Theological College in M adras, and then gradually extend its scope, to give a thorough education to young men in the Vedas and the different Bhâshyas and philosophies, including a knowledge of the other religions of the world. At the same time a paper in English and the vernacular should be started as an organ of the College. Then he felt the necessity to overhaul the society of the country. I fully agree with the educated classes in India that a thorough overhauling of society is necessary. But how to ...

SEE GOD IN ALL "This is the gist of all worship - to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Siva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Siva, and if he sees Siva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Siva in him, without thinking of his cast, creed, or race, or anything, with him Siva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples. " To know more about the identity & existence of God please follow the link below: http://www.swamivivekanandaquotes.org/2014/05/worship-jiva-as-shiva-worship-living-god.html

Realisation of God "Every man must develop according to his own nature. as every science has its methods, so has every religion. The methods of attaining the end of religions are called yoga by us, and the different forms of yoga we teach, are adapted to the different natures and temperaments of men. We classify them in the following way, under four heads:  Karma-Yoga— The manner in which a man realizes his own divinity through works and duty. Bhakti-Yoga— The realization of the divinity through works and duty. Raja-Yoga— The realization of the divinity through the control of the mind. Jnana-Yoga— The realization of a man;s own divinity through knowledge. There are all different roads leading to the same centre— God." - Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda "As the different streams having there sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, ...

Who is a Brahmacharya? The Indian concept Brahmacharya and Western concept Celibacy are not exactly same. Celibacy means a state of being unmarried and sexually abstinent. but Brahmacharya is stricter, it not only includes one's physical activities, but also his/her thoughts and words. They say—     Karmana manasa vaca     Sarvavasthasu sarvada     Sarvatra maithuna-tyago     Brahmacaryam pracaksate (Karmana=work, manasa=mind, vaca=words, sarvatra= everywhere, maithuna-tyago= leave sexuality) Brahmacharya should be like  a burning fire within the veins! —Swami Vivekananda In Hinduism someone who is observing Brahmacharya must abstain from Ashtanga Maithuna (Sanskrit/Hindi: अष्टांग मैथुन, Bengali: অষ্টাঙ্গ মৈথুন)     Smaranam kirtanam kelih     Preksanam guhyabhasanam     Sankalpo ‘dhyavasayas ca     Kriya-nirvrttir eva ca A Brahmachari should not think about people of opposite sex, sp...

Life of Ramakrishna was a "Searchlight" In November 1894, when Vivekananda was staying in the United States and was very busy in conducting public and private lectures, he wrote a letter to Alasinga Perumal (dated 30 November 1894), one of his most beloved disciple. In that letter he wrote. "The life of Shri Ramakrishna was an extraordinary searchlight under whose illumination one is able to really understand the whole scope of Hindu religion. He was the object-lesson of all the theoretical knowledge given in the Shâstras (scriptures). He showed by his life what the Rishis and Avatâras really wanted to teach. The books were theories, he was the realisation. This man had in fifty-one years lived the five thousand years of national spiritual life and so raised himself to be an object-lesson for future generations."