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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."
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Personality of Swami Vivekananda

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.
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 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 popular was he as a lecturer that no place could be found which was large enough to hold all who wished to come. The man who had in vain tried to find a hall large enough to hold the audiences for the lectures during Vivekananda's second visit to Detroit said. "He could fill a circus tent!" After giving this course of lectures, he was invited by his friend Rabbi Grossman to speak at the Temple Beth-El on the last Sunday of his stay in Detroit. An hour before the time appointed, the Temple was filled to its utmost capacity and it became necessary to close the doors. Hundreds were turned away. Others, refusing to be shut out, hammered on the doors and tried by every means to gain admittance. Just as the lecture was about to begin the clamour became so great that it seemed as if the mob would storm the place. But when he appeared on the platform a hush fell over the audience. I heard a foreign voice near me gasp. "How beautiful he is!" And indeed never was beauty more ethereal. At this time the power was not so obvious. It had been transformed into a diviner radiance and a deeper compassion for the world which he was soon to leave. So India often pictures her gods — robes and turbans of concentrated sunlight, complexion of gold, a divine radiance lighting the face, an inner stillness as of a deep pool. He rose and poured forth majestic truths in a voice which completed a beautiful harmony of appearance, voice and message. Not a gesture was there to detract the mind from the intense concentration into which he had plunged his hearers..




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Swami Vivekananda - The Divine

Ramkrishna Paramhansa on Bhagavad Gita

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"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...
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What is Brahmacharya ?

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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...
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Swami Vivekananda on Bhagavad Gita

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 ...
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