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Who is Ishvara

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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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Swami Vivekananda's plan of work for India

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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 ...
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