Swami Vivekananda - The Divine

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