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

Existence of God: Swami Vivekananda was a follower and proponent of Vedanta which mentions one God — omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient. On 19 September 1893 Swami Vivekananda delivered a lecture at the Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago, where he talked about nature of God. He preached— "He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou art our beloved friend, Thou art the source of all strength; give us strength. Thou art He that beareth the burdens of the universe; help me bear the little burden of this life." Thus sang the Rishis of the Vedas. And how to worship Him? Through love. "He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life."

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."

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Sri Sri Ramakrishna speaks about Narendra: Pointing to Narendra, the Master said: "You all see this boy. He behaves that way here. A naughty boy seems very gentle when with his father. But he is quite another person when he plays in the chandni. Narendra and people of his type belong to the class of the everfree. They are never entangled in the world. When they grow a little older they feel the awakening of inner consciousness and go directly toward God. They come to the world only to teach others. They never care for anything of the world. They are never attached to 'woman and gold'. "The Vedas speak of the homa bird. It lives high up in the sky and there it lays its egg. As soon as the egg is laid it begins to fall; but it is so high up that it continues to fall for many days. As it falls it hatches, and the chick falls. As the chick falls its eyes open; it grows wings. As soon as its eyes open, it realizes that it is falling and will be dashed to piece...

" MY WHOLE AMBITION IN LIFE IS TO SET IN MOTION MACHINERY WHICH WILL BRING NOBLE IDEAS TO THE DOOR OF EVERYBODY, AND THEN LET MEN AND WOMEN SETTLE THEIR OWN FATE.LET THEM KNOW WHAT OUR FOREFATHERS AS WELL AS OTHER NATIONS HAVE THOUGHT ON THE MOST MOMENTOUS QUESTIONS OF LIFE. WE ARE TO PUT THE CHEMICALS TOGETHER; THE CRYSTALLIZATION WILL BE DONE BY NATURE ACCORDING TO HER LAWS. KEEP THE MOTTO BEFORE YOU "ELEVATION OF THE MASSES WITHOUT INJURING THEIR RELIGION ” - SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

বিবেকানন্দের শেষের কটা দিন মিশরে বিবেকানন্দ-- সেখানে বেড়াতে এসেছেন একান্ত ভক্ত ফরাসি নৃত্যশিল্পী শ্রীমতি কালভের সঙ্গে | বিবেকানন্দ ক্লান্ত | গত ন’ বছরে শুধু কাজ করেছেন তিনি | নিজেকে নিংড়ে দিয়েছেন কর্মব্রত পালন করতে| তিনি ক্রমেই অসুস্থ | তিনি কাঁদছেন আর বলছেন‚ আমি দেশে ফিরতে চাই | কালভেকে বললেন‚ আমি দেশে ফিরতে চাই‚ গুরুভাইদের সান্নিধ্যে মরবার জন্যে | আমার মৃত্যুদিন ৪ ঠা জুলাই ! ১৯০২ -এর ২১শে জুন | পরমভক্ত ও বন্ধু সিস্টার ক্রিশ্চিন-কে তাঁর শেষ চিঠিতে বিবেকানন্দ লিখলেন‚ আমার কথাটি ফুরলো‚ নটে গাছটি মুড়লো | ১৯০২ – এর ২রা জুলাই | মহাপ্রয়াণের দু-দিন আগে | নিবেদিতাকে নেমন্তন্ন করলেন বিবেকানন্দ | খাওয়ালেন কাঁঠালের বিচিসিদ্ধ‚ আলুসিদ্ধ‚ সাদা ভাত‚ বরফ দিয়ে ঠান্ডা করা দুধ | খাবার সময় কত কৌতুক আর মজা করে গল্প করলেন বিবেকানন্দ ! খাওয়ার পরে‚ নিবেদিতা প্রতিবাদ করা সত্ত্বেও‚ কী গভীর স্নেহে তাঁর হাত ধুয়ে তোয়ালে দিয়ে মুছে দিলেন | — এ কী করলেন আপনি‚ এ তো আমার করা উচিত আপনাকে ! বললেন বিস্মিত নিবেদিতা | — ক্রাইস্ট তো শিষ্যদের পা ধুয়ে দিয়েছিলেন‚ উত্তর দিলেন বিবেকানন্দ | কাঁপা কাঁপা কণ্ঠে ...

Swami Vivekananda on Concentration Let your life in the world be nothing but a thinking to yourself. Whatever exists has a reason; find that reason. Concentration is the essence of all knowledge, nothing can be done without it. The mind has to be made malleable like clay. Just as clay sticks wherever you throw it, so the mind must be made to dwell upon whatever object you concentrate it. https://www.facebook.com/VivekanandaTheSaint/

Swami Vivekananda on women Once, a certain social reformer went to Vivekananda and asked, “It is great that you also support women, what shall I do? I want to reform them. I want to support this.” Then Vivekananda said, “Hands off. You do not have to do anything about them; just leave them alone. They will do what they have to do.” This is all that is needed. It is not that a man has to reform a woman. If he just gives room, she will do what is necessary. https://www.facebook.com/VivekanandaTheSaint/

Awakening His Countrymen Swami Vivekananda returned to India in January 1897. In response to the enthusiastic welcome that he received everywhere, he delivered a series of lectures in different parts of India, which created a great stir all over the country. Through these inspiring and profoundly significant lectures Swamiji attempted to do the following: 1. to rouse the religious consciousness of the people and create in them pride in their cultural heritage; 2. to bring about unification of Hinduism by pointing out the common bases of its sects; 3. to focus the attention of educated people on the plight of the downtrodden masses, and to expound his plan for their uplift by the application of the principles of Practical Vedanta. https://www.facebook.com/VivekanandaTheSaint/

One thing became clear to Swamiji: to carry out Ramkrishna's plans for the spread of education and for the uplift of the poor masses, and also of women, an efficient organization of dedicated people was needed. As he said later on, he wanted “to set in motion a machinery which will bring noblest ideas to the doorstep of even the poorest and the meanest.” It was to serve as this ‘machinery’ that Swamiji founded the Ramakrishna Mission a few years later. It was when these ideas  were taking shape in his mind in the course of his wanderings that Swami Vivekananda heard about the World’s Parliament of Religions to be held in Chicago in 1893. His friends and admirers in India wanted him to attend the Parliament. He too felt that the Parliament would provide the right forum to present his Master’s message to the world, and so he decided to go to America. Another reason which prompted Swamiji to go to America was to seek financial help for his project of uplifting the masses. Swami...

# SwamiVivekananda  urged Indians to treat and honour each other as brothers despite their caste or financial condition. He suggested not to forget that Sita, Savitri, Damayanti are the ideals of Indian womanhood. He asked to consider the soil of India as one's heaven and the good of India as one's own good. He also suggested not to foolishly imitate the West. He wrote— "O India, this is your terrible danger. The spell of imitating the West is getting such a strong hold upon you that what is good or what is bad is no longer decided by reason, judgment, discrimination, or reference to the Shastras. Whatever ideas, whatever manners the white men praise or like are good; whatever things they dislike or censure are bad. Alas! what can be a more tangible proof of foolishness than this?" https://www.facebook.com/VivekanandaTheSaint/

Personality of Swami Vivekananda # swamivivekananda  divinity wàs not only confined to India his personality touched the heart of millions of people around the world. He was even compared with the personality of the Buddha and Jesus. https://www.facebook.com/VivekanandaTheSaint/ Reminiscences of Sister Christine on Swami Vivekananda ...Something of this power is lost in the written word, as those know well who were fortunate enough to hear Vivekananda speak. The spiritual force generated at such times was so great that some in the audience were lifted above the normal state of consciousness, so that it was possible to remember only the beginning of a lecture. After a certain point, there seemed to be a blank. The normal mind was no longer functioning: a higher state of consciousness, beyond reason and memory, had taken its place. Long after, perhaps, it would be found that during that period when the mind seemed blank, a specially deep impression had been made. So popul...

Salutation to Ramkrishna Paramhansa ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय। यस्य वीर्येण कृतिनो वयं च भुवनानि च। रामकृष्णं सदा वन्दे शर्वं स्वतन्त्रमीश्वरम्॥ (Translation: Constant salutation be to Shri Ramakrishna, the Free, the Ishvara, the Shiva-form, by whose power we and the whole world are blessed.) https://www.facebook.com/VivekanandaTheSaint/