ॐ वीरेश्वराय विद्महे
विवेकानन्दाय धीमहि । तन्नो वीर: प्रचोदयात् ।
Swami Vivekananda's prescription that gives us STRENGTH :
It has been one of the principles of my life not to be ashamed
of my own ancestors. I am one of the proudest men ever born, but
let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of
my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have
looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has
given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up
from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great
plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.
We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national
life is in our religion.
What can bring greater strength than Satva Guna (absolute purity
of mind)? It is indeed true that all other kinds of knowledge
are but non-knowledge in comparison with Self-knowledge.
Put yourself to work, and you will find such tremendous power
coming to you that you will feel it hard to bear. Even the least
work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the
least good of others gradually instills into the heart the
strength of a lion.
It is when the national body is weak that all sorts of disease
germs, in the political state of the race or in its social
state, in its educational or intellectual state, crowd into the
system and produce disease. To remedy it, therefore, we must go
to the root of this disease and cleanse the blood of all
impurities. The one tendency will be to strengthen the man, to
make the blood pure, the body vigorous, so that it will be able
to resist and throw off all external poisons.
You will understand the Gita better with your biceps, your
muscles, a little stronger. You will understand the mighty
genius and the mighty strength of Krishna better with a little
of strong blood in you. You will understand the Upanishads
better and the glory of the Atman when your body stands firm
upon your feet, and you feel yourselves as men.
Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every
page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the
one great lesson I have been taught in my life; strength, it
says, strength, O man, be not weak.
Therefore, my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives
and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength,
strength, and every time strength. And the Upanishads are the
great mine of strength. Therein lies strength enough to
invigorate the whole world; the whole world can be vivified,
made strong,energized through them.
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