SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

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OVERVIEW OF VIVEKANANDA• Born in Calcutta in 1863.

• Contact of Ramkrishna change Narendra’s life.

• Became world famous at Chicago in1883.

• “jiva is shiva”.

• “Awake, arise & stop not till the goal is reached.”

• He founded Ramkrishna mission in 1897.

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BIOGRAPHY (1863-1902)

• Swami vivekananda’s inspiring personality was well known both in India & America.

• The unknown monk of India suddenly leapt into fame at Parliament of Religion held in Chicago in 1893.

• In the course of short of 39 years of which only 10 were devoted to public activities.

• He gave: gyan yog, bhakti yog,karma yog,raj yog.

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Birth & Childhood

• Swami Vivekananda was born Narendranath Datta on12 January 1863 in Calcutta in a respectable middle-class.

• His father, Viswanath Dutta, was an attorney and wasa lover of the arts and literature.

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• On the other hand, Narendra’s mother,Bhubaneshwari Devi, was a pious, kind-heartedlady, devoted to the Hindu traditions.

• Narendranath had varied interests & wide range ofscholarship in philosophy, history, social sciences,art and other subjects.

• He evinced much interest in spiritual text.AMIT SACHDEV

College & Brahmo samaj

• Vivekananda strated his education at home,later hejoined metropolitan institution of ishwarchandravidyasagar in 1871 and he passed the entranceexamination of presidency college, colcutta.

• Narendranath became the member of a Freemason'slodge and the breakaway faction from the Brahmosamaj led by kesab chandra sen another Freemason.

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Continue…• His initial beliefs were shaped by Brahmo

concepts, which include belief in a formless Godand deprecation of the worship of idols.

• Not satisfied with his knowledge of Philosophy, hewondered if God and religion could be made a partof one's growing experiences and deeplyinternalized. Narendra went about askingprominent residents of contemporary Calcuttawhether they had come "face to face with God. butcould not get answers which satisfied him.

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Message to youth

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VIVEKA VANI

Swamiji’s Divine Message for

the YouthAMIT SACHDEV

We are what out thoughts have made us;

so take care about what you think.

Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

THOUGHTS

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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed in to

an actual physical or mental state.

CONCENTRATION

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COMMITMENT

Even a fool can accomplish a task if it were

after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones

are those who can convert every work into

one that suits their heart

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Take up one idea.

Make that one idea your life.

Think of it, dream of it.

Live on that idea.

Let the brain, muscles, nerves,

every part of your body Be full of

that idea.

This the way to“SUCCESS”.

GOAL

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EDUCATION

Education is the manifestation of

perfection already in man.

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WORK

Every duty is holy, and devotion to duty is the highest form of the worship of

God.

When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as

worship,As the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time

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Neither money pays, nor name, nor

fame, nor learning,

it is CHARACTER

that can cleave through adamantine

walls of difficulties.

CHARACTER

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It is good to be born a child;

but bad to remain a child

MATURITY

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If you think that the infinite power,

infinite knowledge,and indomitable

energy

lie within you, and if you can bring

out that power,

You also can be like Me.

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Quotes From Swami

Vivekananda

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“Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole

responsibility on your own shoulders, & know that you are the creator of your own

destiny”

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“They alone live who live for others, rest are more dead

then alive”

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“Arise! Awake! And stop not till the goal is reached”

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“To be good and to do good - that is the whole of

religion”

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“Strength is life, Weakness is death”

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“All the power is within you; you can do anything and

everything. Believe in that; don’t believe that you are

weak. Stand up and express the divinity with in you”

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“What ever you think, that you will be. If you think

yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself

strong; strong you will be”

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“Stand and die in your own strength; if there is any sin

in the world, it is weakness; avoid all weakness, for

weakness is sin, weakness is death”

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“Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER

that cleave through adamantine walls of

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“He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old

religion said that he was an atheist who does not believe in God. The new religion says that

he is an atheist who does not believe in himself”

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“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”

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“Help if you can; if you cannot, fold your hands and stand by and see things go

on. Do not injure, if you cannot render help”

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“Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great”

1.Conviction of the powers of goodness

2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion

3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good

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“Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you

will be perfect without reading a single religious

book, without going into a single church or temple.”

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“Misery comes through attachment, not through work. As soon as we

identify ourselves with work we do, we feel miserable; but if we don’t

identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery”

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“Nature wants us to react, to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit

back with all our might, then it requires a super divine power

not hit back, to keep control, to be unattached”

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“Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master. Avoid this jealousy, and you will do great works that have

yet to be done”

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“You must have an iron will if you would cross the

ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce

mountains”

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“Take up one idea, make that one idea your life, think of it, dream of it, live of it, let the brain, muscle, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea

and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way great spiritual giants

are produced, others are mere talking machines”

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“Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your

duty is to go on working, and then everything will

follow of itself”

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Love is spirit of Sacrificing &

dedication.

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