Swami Vivekananda - The Divine

" 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/

"Let the children of  # ShriRamakrishna  be true to themselves and everything will be all right. We may not live to see the outcome, but as sure as we live, it will come sooner or later. What India wants is a new electric fire to stir up a fresh vigour in the national veins. This was ever, and always will be, slow work. Be content to work, and, above all, be true to yourself. Be pure, staunch, and sincere to the very backbone, and everything will be all right. If you have marked  anything in the disciples of #ShriRamakrishna, it is this — they are sincere to the backbone. My task will be done, and I shall be quite content to die, if I can bring up and launch one hundred such men over India. He, the Lord, knows best. Let ignorant men talk nonsense. We neither seek aid nor avoid it — we are the servants of the Most High. The petty attempts of small men should be beneath our notice. Onward! Upon ages of struggle a character is built. Be not discouraged. One word of truth c...

Khandana Bhava–Bandhana, or Sri Ramakrishna Aratrik, or Sri Ramakrishna Arati, (English: Breaker of this world’s chain), is a Bengali song composed by  # SwamiVivekananda  himself. The song, dedicated to the 19th-century mystic Ramakrishna, was composed in 1898.It is a prayer song, based on Raga Mishra Kalyana, Tala Ferta (Choutal, Tintal, Ektal) used in Indian classical music. Vivekananda's message through the poem was to free one self from the bondages of the world, and to make those who have freed themselves spread their knowledge of freedom widely until the whole humanity is filled with tremendous passion for freedom (from bondage and suffering). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLpwsaPcr04&feature=share