Swami Vivekananda Says :
MANIFEST DIVINITY WITHIN
This universe is simply a gymnasium in which the soul is taking exercise; and after these exercises we become gods. So the value of everything is to be decided by how far it is a manifestation of God. Civilisation is the manifestation of that divinity in man.
You are philosophers, and you do not think that a bag of gold makes the difference between man and man. What is the value of all these machines and sciences? They have only one result: they spread knowledge. You have not solved the problem of want, but only made it keener. Machines do not solve the poverty question; they simply make men struggle the more. Competition gets keener. What value has nature in itself? Why do you go and build a monument to a man who sends electricity through a wire? Does not nature do that millions of times over? Is not everything already existing in nature? What is the value of your getting it? It is already there. The only value is that it makes this development.
Do you realise that India is the only country that never went outside of itself to conquer? The great emperor Asoka insisted that none of his descendants should go to conquer. If people want to send us teachers, let them help, but not injure. Why should all these people come to conquer the Hindus? Did they do any injury to any nation? What little good they could do, they did for the world. They taught it science, philosophy, religion, and civilised the savage hordes of the earth. And this is the return – only murder and tyranny, and calling them heathen rascals. (V, 308)
Sunday, 31 August 2014
Saturday, 30 August 2014
Vijayi Bhav!
Swami Vivekananda Says :
VIJAYI BHAV!
The eyes of the whole world are now turned towards this land of India for spiritual food; and India has to provide it for all the races. Here alone is the best ideal for mankind; and Western scholars are now striving to understand this ideal which is enshrined in our Sanskrit literature and philosophy, and which has been the characteristic of India all through the ages...........Religious researches disclose to us the fact that there is not a country possessing a good ethical code but has borrowed something of it from us, and there is not one religion possessing good ideas of the immortality of the soul but has derived it directly or indirectly from us............Everybody should know that there is no salvation except through the conquering of desires, and that no man is free who is subject to the bondage of matter.
This great truth all nations are slowly coming to understand and appreciate. As soon as the disciple is in a position to grasp this truth, the words of the Guru come to his help. The Lord sends help to His own children in His infinite mercy which never ceaseth and is ever flowing in all creeds. Our Lord is the Lord of all religions. This idea belongs to India alone; and I challenge any one of you to find it in any other scripture of the world. (III, 138 - 39)
VIJAYI BHAV!
The eyes of the whole world are now turned towards this land of India for spiritual food; and India has to provide it for all the races. Here alone is the best ideal for mankind; and Western scholars are now striving to understand this ideal which is enshrined in our Sanskrit literature and philosophy, and which has been the characteristic of India all through the ages...........Religious researches disclose to us the fact that there is not a country possessing a good ethical code but has borrowed something of it from us, and there is not one religion possessing good ideas of the immortality of the soul but has derived it directly or indirectly from us............Everybody should know that there is no salvation except through the conquering of desires, and that no man is free who is subject to the bondage of matter.
This great truth all nations are slowly coming to understand and appreciate. As soon as the disciple is in a position to grasp this truth, the words of the Guru come to his help. The Lord sends help to His own children in His infinite mercy which never ceaseth and is ever flowing in all creeds. Our Lord is the Lord of all religions. This idea belongs to India alone; and I challenge any one of you to find it in any other scripture of the world. (III, 138 - 39)
India to play divine role
Swami Vivekananda says :
HARMONY OF NATIONS: INDIA'S ROLE
Well, perhaps we are fated by Divine Providence to play the spiritual note in this harmony of nations, and it rejoices me to see that we have not yet lost the grand traditions which have been handed down to us by the most glorious forefathers of whom any nation can be proud. It gives me hope, it gives me adamantine faith in the destiny of the race. It cheers me, not for the personal attention paid to me, but to know that the heart of the nation is there, and is still sound. India is still living; who says she is dead? But the West wants to see us active.
If they want to see us active on the field of battle, they will be disappointed – that is not our field – just as we would be disappointed if we hoped to see a military nation active on the field of spirituality. But let them come here and see that we are equally active, and how the nation is living and is as alive as ever. We should dispel the idea that we have degenerated at all. So far so good. (III,165)
HARMONY OF NATIONS: INDIA'S ROLE
Well, perhaps we are fated by Divine Providence to play the spiritual note in this harmony of nations, and it rejoices me to see that we have not yet lost the grand traditions which have been handed down to us by the most glorious forefathers of whom any nation can be proud. It gives me hope, it gives me adamantine faith in the destiny of the race. It cheers me, not for the personal attention paid to me, but to know that the heart of the nation is there, and is still sound. India is still living; who says she is dead? But the West wants to see us active.
If they want to see us active on the field of battle, they will be disappointed – that is not our field – just as we would be disappointed if we hoped to see a military nation active on the field of spirituality. But let them come here and see that we are equally active, and how the nation is living and is as alive as ever. We should dispel the idea that we have degenerated at all. So far so good. (III,165)
Friday, 29 August 2014
Vivekananda Kendra Pilgrimage Facility goes Live
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वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सुर्यकोटि समप्रभ ।
निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा ।।
वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सुर्यकोटि समप्रभ ।
निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा ।।
We are happy to announce that the Online Booking System is now live on Auspicious "Ganesh Chaturthi" - Friday - 29th August 2014 after the completion of the procession of "Shri Ekashwar MahaGanapati" at Vivekanandapuram, Kanyakumari.
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मुक्तसंग्ङोऽनहंवादी धृत्युत्साहसमन्वित:।
सिद्धयसिद्धयोर्निर्विकार: कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ॥१८.२६॥
Freed from attachment, non-egoistic, endowed with courage and enthusiasm and unperturbed by success or failure, the worker is known as a pure (Sattvika) one. Four outstanding and essential qualities of a worker. - Bhagwad Gita : XVIII-26
Lesson in Toleration & Sympathy
Swami Vivekananda says :
Lesson in TOLERATION & SYMPATHY
The one great lesson, therefore, that the world wants most, that the world has yet to learn from India, is the idea not only of toleration, but of sympathy. Well has it been said in the Mahimnah-stotra: "As the different rivers, taking their start from different mountains, running straight or crooked, at last come unto the ocean, so, O Shiva, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead unto These." Though they may take various roads, all are on the ways. Some may run a little crooked, others may run straight, but at last they will all come unto the Lord, the One. Then and then alone, is your Bhakti of Shiva complete when you not only see Him in the Linga, but you see Him everywhere.
He is the sage, he is the lover of Hari who sees Hari in everything and in everyone. If you are a real lover of Shiva, you must see Him in everything and in everyone. You must see that every worship is given unto Him whatever may be the name or the form; that all knees bending towards the Caaba, or kneeling in a Christian church, or in a Buddhist temple are kneeling to Him whether they know it or not, whether they are conscious of it or not; that in whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at His feet; for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls. He knows infinitely better what this world wants than you or I.
It is impossible that all difference can cease; it must exist; without variation life must cease. It is this clash, the differentiation of thought that makes for light, for motion, for everything. Differentiation, infinitely contradictory, must remain, but it is not necessary that we should hate each other therefore; it is not necessary therefore that we should fight each other. (III, 114)
Lesson in TOLERATION & SYMPATHY
The one great lesson, therefore, that the world wants most, that the world has yet to learn from India, is the idea not only of toleration, but of sympathy. Well has it been said in the Mahimnah-stotra: "As the different rivers, taking their start from different mountains, running straight or crooked, at last come unto the ocean, so, O Shiva, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead unto These." Though they may take various roads, all are on the ways. Some may run a little crooked, others may run straight, but at last they will all come unto the Lord, the One. Then and then alone, is your Bhakti of Shiva complete when you not only see Him in the Linga, but you see Him everywhere.
He is the sage, he is the lover of Hari who sees Hari in everything and in everyone. If you are a real lover of Shiva, you must see Him in everything and in everyone. You must see that every worship is given unto Him whatever may be the name or the form; that all knees bending towards the Caaba, or kneeling in a Christian church, or in a Buddhist temple are kneeling to Him whether they know it or not, whether they are conscious of it or not; that in whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at His feet; for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls. He knows infinitely better what this world wants than you or I.
It is impossible that all difference can cease; it must exist; without variation life must cease. It is this clash, the differentiation of thought that makes for light, for motion, for everything. Differentiation, infinitely contradictory, must remain, but it is not necessary that we should hate each other therefore; it is not necessary therefore that we should fight each other. (III, 114)
Thursday, 28 August 2014
Ganesh Chaturthi : Vivekananda Kendra News
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वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सुर्यकोटि समप्रभ ।
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वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सुर्यकोटि समप्रभ ।
निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा ।।
News Updates from Vivekanandakendra.org :
Three–day residential camp organised
DIBRUGARH, August 27: Vivekananda Kendra Shiksha Prasar Vibhag, Guwahati, an educational project of Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari, organized a three–day residential camp for the Principals and Senior Teachers (August 24 to August 26, 2014) of 18 Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalayas, located in Assam and Nagaland, concluded on August 26, 2014 in Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya, (NEEPCO) Bokuloni. Read More
યોગ શિક્ષા શિબીર, ગુજરાત પ્રાંત
વિવેકાનંદ કેન્દ્ર કન્યાકુમારી, ગુજરાત પ્રાંત દ્વારા ૧૫ થી ૨૦ ઓગષ્ટ ૨૦૧૪ દરમિયાન "યોગ શિક્ષા શિબીર"નું આયોજન કરવામાં આવ્યું હતું. આ શિબીરમાં ગુજરાત ભરમાંથી ૫૬ ભાઇ-બહેનોએ ભાગ લીધો હતો. Read More
Samartha Workshop by Vivekananda Kendra Arunjyoti
Vivekananda Kendra Arun Jyoti organized Samartha Prashikshan Karyasala (Trainer's Training Workshop) at VKV,Tinsukia for the teachers of Arunachal Pradesh. Read More
जन्माष्टमी के पावन उपलक्ष्य में हुआ दही - हाँडी कार्यक्रम, नागपुर
विवेकनन्द केन्द्र कन्याकुमारी, शाखा - नागपुर द्वारा प्रतिवर्षानुसार इस वर्ष भी श्रीकृष्ण जन्माष्टमी के उपलक्ष्य में दही हाँडी कार्यक्रम का आयोजन किया गया। Read More
Janmastami Celebration at surat
Jamastami was celebrated with the Sanskar Varga children at Dindoli Sankar varga on 18th August'2014. Read More
Safal Yuva - Safal Bharat Presentation at Surat
Safal Yuva - Safal Bharat Presentation is based on success story on Vivekananda Rock Memorial has been conducted at SCET (Engineering college) from 11th to 14th Aug.2014 Read More
'Dharmar Theertham' comes to the fore after 60 years
The Vivekananda Kendra's relentless efforts over a month helped to dismantle a huge sand dune built by strong winds, bringing out 'Dharmar Theertham'. Read More
Safal Yuva - Safal Bharat Presentation at Navasari
Safal Yuva - Safal Bharat Presentation is based on success story on Vivekananda Rock Memorial at Nalan lala college at navsari was conducted. Read More
Samskrit Swadhyay Kashoti at surat
Samskritik Swadhyay Kashoti (Cultural Examination) at Barfiwala college, total 89 youths registered on the book Bharat Gaurav. Read More
Safal Yuva - Safal Bharat Presentation at Amroli
Safal Yuva - Safal Bharat Presentation is based on success story on Vivekananda Rock Memorial at udhana citizen college has been finished on 15th August in which 84 Youth has participated. Read More
Kendra Introduction Camp at barashat vistar, madhusudan nagar, kolkata
Vivekananda kendra barashat vistar, madhusudan nagar, kolkata, was held a Kendra Introduction Camp at aswini pally, barashat with 24 participants 6 karyakartas. Read More
Janamastami Celebration at Various Places
Upcoming Events :
- 3 Days Residential Camp at Pinwad(1 day) Read More
- Safal Yuva - Safal Bharat Presentation at Valsad Read More
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Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Unity in Diversity
Swami Vivekananda says :
UNITY IN DIVERSITY
Unity in variety is the plan of creation. However men and women may vary individually, there is unity in the background. The different individual characters and classes of men and women are natural variations in creation. Hence, we ought not to judge them by the same standard or put the same ideal before them. Such a course creates only an unnatural struggle, and the result is that man begins to hate himself and is hindered from becoming religious and good. Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest ideal, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth. (I, 41)
UNITY IN DIVERSITY
Unity in variety is the plan of creation. However men and women may vary individually, there is unity in the background. The different individual characters and classes of men and women are natural variations in creation. Hence, we ought not to judge them by the same standard or put the same ideal before them. Such a course creates only an unnatural struggle, and the result is that man begins to hate himself and is hindered from becoming religious and good. Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest ideal, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth. (I, 41)
Our Life Blood - Spirituality
Swami Vivekananda Says :
Allow Spirituality - our lifeblood - to flow clearly
With the giving up of quarrels all other improvements will come. When the life-blood is strong and pure, no disease germ can live in that body. Our life-blood is spirituality. If it flows clear, if it flows strong and pure and vigorous, everything is right; political, social, any other material defects, even the poverty of the land, will all be cured if that blood is pure. For if the disease germ be thrown out, nothing will be able to enter into the blood. To take a simile from modern medicine, we know that there must be two causes to produce a disease, some poison germ outside, and the state of the body. Until the body is in a state to admit the germs, until the body is degraded to a lower vitality so that the germs may enter and thrive and multiply, there is no power in any germ in the world to produce a disease in the body.
In fact, millions of germs are continually passing through everyone's body; but so long as it is vigorous, it never is conscious of them. It is only when the body is weak that these germs take possession of it and produce disease. Just so with the national life. 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. (III, 288)
Allow Spirituality - our lifeblood - to flow clearly
With the giving up of quarrels all other improvements will come. When the life-blood is strong and pure, no disease germ can live in that body. Our life-blood is spirituality. If it flows clear, if it flows strong and pure and vigorous, everything is right; political, social, any other material defects, even the poverty of the land, will all be cured if that blood is pure. For if the disease germ be thrown out, nothing will be able to enter into the blood. To take a simile from modern medicine, we know that there must be two causes to produce a disease, some poison germ outside, and the state of the body. Until the body is in a state to admit the germs, until the body is degraded to a lower vitality so that the germs may enter and thrive and multiply, there is no power in any germ in the world to produce a disease in the body.
In fact, millions of germs are continually passing through everyone's body; but so long as it is vigorous, it never is conscious of them. It is only when the body is weak that these germs take possession of it and produce disease. Just so with the national life. 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. (III, 288)
Monday, 25 August 2014
Unity in Variety
Swami Vivekananda Says :
Unity in Variety
This is a fact that variation exists, and so it must, if life is to be. This is also a fact that in and through these variations unity must be perceived. This is a fact that God is perceived in nature. But it is also a fact that nature is perceived in God. The knowledge of man is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing man, can we know God. This is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and knowing God alone we can know man. Apparently contradictory though these statements may appear, they are the necessity of human nature. The whole universe is a play of unity in variety, and of variety in unity. The whole universe is a play of differentiation and oneness; the whole universe is a play of the finite in the Infinite. We cannot take one without granting the other. But we cannot take them both as facts of the same perception, as facts of the same experience; yet in this way it will always go on.
Therefore the absolute sameness of conditions, if that be the aim of ethics, appears to be impossible. That all men should be the same, could never be, however we might try. Men will be born differentiated; some will have more power than others; some will have natural capacities, others not; some will have perfect bodies, others not. We can never stop that. At the same time ring in our ears the wonderful words of morality proclaimed by various teachers: "Thus, seeing the same God equally present in all, the sage does not injure Self by the Self, and thus reaches the highest goal. Even in this life they have conquered relative existence whose minds are firmly fixed on this sameness; for God is pure, and God is the same to all. Therefore such are said to be living in God." We cannot deny that this is the real idea; yet at the same time comes the difficulty that the sameness as regards external forms and position can never be attained.
Unity in Variety
This is a fact that variation exists, and so it must, if life is to be. This is also a fact that in and through these variations unity must be perceived. This is a fact that God is perceived in nature. But it is also a fact that nature is perceived in God. The knowledge of man is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing man, can we know God. This is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and knowing God alone we can know man. Apparently contradictory though these statements may appear, they are the necessity of human nature. The whole universe is a play of unity in variety, and of variety in unity. The whole universe is a play of differentiation and oneness; the whole universe is a play of the finite in the Infinite. We cannot take one without granting the other. But we cannot take them both as facts of the same perception, as facts of the same experience; yet in this way it will always go on.
Therefore the absolute sameness of conditions, if that be the aim of ethics, appears to be impossible. That all men should be the same, could never be, however we might try. Men will be born differentiated; some will have more power than others; some will have natural capacities, others not; some will have perfect bodies, others not. We can never stop that. At the same time ring in our ears the wonderful words of morality proclaimed by various teachers: "Thus, seeing the same God equally present in all, the sage does not injure Self by the Self, and thus reaches the highest goal. Even in this life they have conquered relative existence whose minds are firmly fixed on this sameness; for God is pure, and God is the same to all. Therefore such are said to be living in God." We cannot deny that this is the real idea; yet at the same time comes the difficulty that the sameness as regards external forms and position can never be attained.
Eknath Ranade: The great man responsible for building the Vivekananda Rock memorial at kanyakumari
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Swami Vivekananda has said that even after he laid down his body, he would continue to work and inspire generations to come to carry on his unfinished work.We see it still happening. Swamiji does it in innumerable ways.The magnificent Vivekananda Rock Memorial at Kanyakumari is one such undying source of inspiration. The Vivekananda Memorial, as it stands today, is a memorial to Swamiji as to Shri Ekanthji Ranade whose devotion to the work he had undertaken was inspired not by mere faith but by intellectual conviction.
Eknath Ranade ji in his conversation with Sri Govinda Menon, the Home Minister in the Central Cabinet. To a pointed question by the minister as how the work of the RSS could be reconciled with Vivekananda’s philosophy, Eknathji reply was, “It is Vivekananda’s philosophy that made me an RSS worker. In fact RSS is nothing but an extension of Swamiiji’s work”.
Shri Eknath Ranade believed that as the Vivekananda Rock Memorial was a national monument, every Indian should be invited to contribute to its construction. He approached (and succeeded) almost every State government and asked for their contribution, making a special effort to go to the north-eastern states of Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh so that they could also feel a part of the national endeavour.
But the bulk of the contributions came from the general public. Shri Eknath Ranade launched the campaign of one-rupee folders throughout the nation, which were used to mobilise the donations of the common man, starting from as tiny an amount as a rupee.Thus so many people visiting the Rock Memorial could feel with justified pride that they too had contributed to that monument.
It is solely due to Shri Eknath Ranade that the Vivekananda Rock Memorial mission never became a political agitation, which would then have caused parties and people to take sides simply due to political expediency, and not based on the merit of the issue.
Ultimately, within the unbelievably short period of six years, the Vivekananda Rock Memorial was inaugurated in 1970, and dedicated to the nation. Without the leading role of Shri Eknath Ranade, it is extremely doubtful that this grand national monument could have been built.
Source: Via WHN Publisher
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सिद्धयसिद्धयोर्निर्विकार: कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ॥१८.२६॥
Freed from attachment, non-egoistic, endowed with courage and enthusiasm and unperturbed by success or failure, the worker is known as a pure (Sattvika) one. Four outstanding and essential qualities of a worker. - Bhagwad Gita : XVIII-26
‘Dharmar Theertham’ comes to the fore after 60 years
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The Vivekananda Kendra's relentless efforts over a month helped to dismantle a huge sand dune built by strong winds, bringing out 'Dharmar Theertham', one of the venerated waterbodies on this historic island, after more than 60 years.The Kendra, which renovates the 'Theerthams' as part of its 'Green Rameswaram' project launched in January, has discovered the waterbody named after one of the five Pandavas, to the delight of scores of pilgrims, who thronged the island to offer worship at the Sri Ramanathaswamy Temple after taking bath in the 'Theerthams'.
After it started the renovation under its Natural Resources Development Project to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, the Kendra stumbled upon the 'Theerthams' of the Pandavas and their wife Draupadi, but could not locate them. Making strenuous efforts with the help of a map given by the temple authorities and information from the aged people, Kendra workers located the 'Theerthams' of Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, Sahadeva and Draupadi, but 'Dharmar Theertham' remained invisible.
They moved to the site of a huge sand dune, believing the words of the elders, and started excavation. Soon, they hit the retaining walls. "We worked for a one full month and removed 6,000 tractor loads of sand to unveil the waterbody with the structure intact," Project Coordinator V. Ramakrishnan old The Hindu.
The 'Dharmar Theertham,' located near 'Ramar Padham' (the footprint of Lord Rama) which is the highest altitude of the island, has already attracted pilgrims. Sweet water kept replenishing in a small pit in the middle of the 80x35-foot structure.
"I vividly remember the 'Theertham' when my father used to carry me on his shoulders, and later when we used walk from Vadakadu to the school at Rameswaram," recalled P. Mangalam, 76, a native of Vadakadu. It started disappearing even before the infamous 1964 cyclonic storm that devastated Dhanushikodi, he says.
"After cleaning up the structure, we propose to build a retaining wall and throw the 'Theertham' open to pilgrims," Mr. Ramakrishnan said.
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सिद्धयसिद्धयोर्निर्विकार: कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ॥१८.२६॥
Freed from attachment, non-egoistic, endowed with courage and enthusiasm and unperturbed by success or failure, the worker is known as a pure (Sattvika) one. Four outstanding and essential qualities of a worker. - Bhagwad Gita : XVIII-26
Sunday, 24 August 2014
The Uniqueness of Indian Thought
Swami Vivekananda says :
The Uniqueness of Indian Thought
To love the whole universe is possible only by way of loving the Samashti — the universal — which is, as it were, the one unity in which are to be found millions and millions of smaller unities. The philosophers of India do not stop at the particulars; they cast a hurried glance at the particulars and immediately start to find the generalised forms which will include all the particulars. The search after the universal is the one search of Indian philosophy and religion. The Jnâni aims at the wholeness of things, at that one absolute and; generalised Being, knowing which he knows everything. The Bhakta wishes to realise that one generalised abstract Person, in loving whom he loves the whole universe. The Yogi wishes to have possession of that one generalised form of power, by controlling which he controls this whole universe. The Indian mind, throughout its history, has been directed to this kind of singular search after the universal in everything — in science, in psychology, in love, in philosophy. (III, 81)
The Uniqueness of Indian Thought
To love the whole universe is possible only by way of loving the Samashti — the universal — which is, as it were, the one unity in which are to be found millions and millions of smaller unities. The philosophers of India do not stop at the particulars; they cast a hurried glance at the particulars and immediately start to find the generalised forms which will include all the particulars. The search after the universal is the one search of Indian philosophy and religion. The Jnâni aims at the wholeness of things, at that one absolute and; generalised Being, knowing which he knows everything. The Bhakta wishes to realise that one generalised abstract Person, in loving whom he loves the whole universe. The Yogi wishes to have possession of that one generalised form of power, by controlling which he controls this whole universe. The Indian mind, throughout its history, has been directed to this kind of singular search after the universal in everything — in science, in psychology, in love, in philosophy. (III, 81)
God of India guides her destiny
Swami Vivekananda says :
God of India Guides her destiny
But spiritual knowledge can only be given in silence like the dew that falls unseen and unheard, yet bringing into bloom masses of roses. This has been the gift of India to the world again and again. Whenever there has been a great conquering race, bringing the nations of the world together, making roads and transit possible, immediately India arose and gave her quota of spiritual power to the sum total of the progress of the world. This happened ages before Buddha was born, and remnants of it are still left in China, in Asia Minor, and in the heart of the Malayan Archipelago. This was the case when the great Greek conqueror united the four corners of the then known world; then rushed out Indian spirituality, and the boasted civilisation of the West is but the remnant of that deluge.
Now the same opportunity has again come; the power of England has linked the nations of the world together as was never done before. English roads and channels of communication rush from one end of the world to the other. Owing to English genius, the world today has been linked in such a fashion as has never before been done. Today trade centres have been formed such as have never been before in the history of mankind. And immediately, consciously or unconsciously, India rises up and pours forth her gifts of spirituality; and they will rush through these roads till they have reached the very ends of the world. That I went to America was not my doing or your doing; but the God of India who is guiding her destiny sent me, and will send hundreds of such to all the nations of the world. No power on earth can resist it. (III, 222- 223)
God of India Guides her destiny
But spiritual knowledge can only be given in silence like the dew that falls unseen and unheard, yet bringing into bloom masses of roses. This has been the gift of India to the world again and again. Whenever there has been a great conquering race, bringing the nations of the world together, making roads and transit possible, immediately India arose and gave her quota of spiritual power to the sum total of the progress of the world. This happened ages before Buddha was born, and remnants of it are still left in China, in Asia Minor, and in the heart of the Malayan Archipelago. This was the case when the great Greek conqueror united the four corners of the then known world; then rushed out Indian spirituality, and the boasted civilisation of the West is but the remnant of that deluge.
Now the same opportunity has again come; the power of England has linked the nations of the world together as was never done before. English roads and channels of communication rush from one end of the world to the other. Owing to English genius, the world today has been linked in such a fashion as has never before been done. Today trade centres have been formed such as have never been before in the history of mankind. And immediately, consciously or unconsciously, India rises up and pours forth her gifts of spirituality; and they will rush through these roads till they have reached the very ends of the world. That I went to America was not my doing or your doing; but the God of India who is guiding her destiny sent me, and will send hundreds of such to all the nations of the world. No power on earth can resist it. (III, 222- 223)
Saturday, 23 August 2014
India's contribution : An Ideal World
Swami Vivekananda says :
India's contribution to the sum total of human knowledge has been spirituality, philosophy. These she contributed even long before the rising of the Persian Empire; the second time was during the Persian Empire; for the third time during the ascendancy of the Greeks; and now for the fourth time during the ascendancy of the English, she is going to fulfil the same destiny once more. As Western ideas of organisation and external civilization are penetrating and pouring into our country, whether we will have them or not, so Indian spirituality and philosophy are deluging the lands of the West. None can resist it, and no more can we resist some sort of material civilization from the West. A little of it, perhaps, is good for us, and a little spiritualisation is good for the West; thus the balance will be preserved. It is not that we ought to learn everything from the West, or that they have to learn everything from us, but each will have to supply and hand down to future generations what it has for the future accomplishment of that dream of ages — the harmony of nations, an ideal world. (III, 171)
India's contribution to the sum total of human knowledge has been spirituality, philosophy. These she contributed even long before the rising of the Persian Empire; the second time was during the Persian Empire; for the third time during the ascendancy of the Greeks; and now for the fourth time during the ascendancy of the English, she is going to fulfil the same destiny once more. As Western ideas of organisation and external civilization are penetrating and pouring into our country, whether we will have them or not, so Indian spirituality and philosophy are deluging the lands of the West. None can resist it, and no more can we resist some sort of material civilization from the West. A little of it, perhaps, is good for us, and a little spiritualisation is good for the West; thus the balance will be preserved. It is not that we ought to learn everything from the West, or that they have to learn everything from us, but each will have to supply and hand down to future generations what it has for the future accomplishment of that dream of ages — the harmony of nations, an ideal world. (III, 171)
Friday, 22 August 2014
Homage to Mananeeya Eknathji
You Too Can Do It
We must reverse this trend. And if Swamiji inspires us, it is not because he was Divine and he descended upon earth but because he was an ordinary human being like us, just like us. We see that we are full of weaknesses but we are very eager to see that one after another we overcome our weaknesses. In the same way, he was also confronted with problems. And because he came in contact with Sri. Ramakrishna, with that great soul, he got the light , the necessary equipment, and was slowly transformed into great personality. He became a superman and almost Divine. So that gives us the confidence that we can also do that. If he could do it in 39 years of age, if Dyaneshwar could do it in 8 years of age, if do it. This confidence is required. We can inspire this confidence in the general mass of people. Swami Vivekananda has said on a number of occasions that if you have faith in yourself also. You can do wonders. there is nothing you can not do. You must will it and you will do it. He tried to infuse this confidence in everybody through all his lectures. And it is very much true that every human soul is potentially divine. Accordingly Swami Vivekananda was also divine potentially. This potentiality is in everybody. We can rise to divine heights. This confidence we have to infuse in our people. That is the need of the hour.
-Mananeeya Eknathji Ranade [19th Nov. 1914 - 22 August 1982]
(Story of The Vivekananda Rock Memorial)
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Thursday, 21 August 2014
Need of the Hour : Vivekananda Kendra News
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"This is the motherland of philosophy, of spirituality, and of ethics, of sweetness, gentleness, and love. These still exist, and my experience of the world leads me to stand on firm ground and make the bold statement that India is still the first and foremost of all the nations of the world in these respects."
- Swami Vivekananda [CW-III, 147]
News Updates from Vivekanandakendra.org :
Spiritual Retreat August 2014
Spiritual Retreat of this year, started from the evening of 07.08.2014, Thursday with Bhajan Sandhya. Mananeeya Praveenji formally inaugurated the Shibir in the morning of 8.08.2014. Read More
VKRDP Monthly Report July 2014 Read More
Kendra Introduction Camp in Paschim Bang
Kendra Introduction Camp in Paschim Bang on 14 August at Vivekananda Kendra, Durgapur branch with 22 yuva participants and 5 karyakartas and at uluberia vistar, Howrha Nagar on 15 August with 22 participants and 3 Karyakarta. Read More
Gokulastmi and Rakshabandhan celebration
Krishna Jeyanthi is celebrated on the eighth day of the Krishna Paksha of the month of shravana in the Hindu calendar. Read More
Janmastami and Rakshabandhan celebration at Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya, Vallioor
Janmastami and Rakshabandhan were celebrated on 18th august in Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya, Vallioor. The festival ceremony started at 11.30 a.m. with prayers in the presence of Shri. S.K. Read More
Karyakarta Prashikshan at Dibrugarh
On 17th August 2014 Karyakarta Prashikshan at Dibrugarh - Saphal Yuva : Yuva Bharat. 50 Youth participated. Read more
68th Independence Day Celebration
15th August is a golden day in the history of our nation. It was on this day in 1947, that India achieved her independence from foreign rule. Read More
Mathematics Teachers Orientation Camp conducted by VKSPV
Mathematics Teachers Orientation Camp conducted by VKSPV, Guwahati at VKV Dibrugarh from 2nd August to 4th August 2014. Read More
Independence Day Celebration at Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya, Vallioor
Independence Day was celebrated in a grand level on 15th August in our school campus. Shri. Sankararaman, Advocate & Secretary of Madha Amirthanantha Mayi Samithi hoisted the National flag. Read More
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Author: A. Narayanan
Publication Year: 2011
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Pages: 104
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News Updates from Vivekanandakendra.org :
Spiritual Retreat August 2014
Spiritual Retreat of this year, started from the evening of 07.08.2014, Thursday with Bhajan Sandhya. Mananeeya Praveenji formally inaugurated the Shibir in the morning of 8.08.2014. Read More
VKRDP Monthly Report July 2014 Read More
Kendra Introduction Camp in Paschim Bang
Kendra Introduction Camp in Paschim Bang on 14 August at Vivekananda Kendra, Durgapur branch with 22 yuva participants and 5 karyakartas and at uluberia vistar, Howrha Nagar on 15 August with 22 participants and 3 Karyakarta. Read More
Gokulastmi and Rakshabandhan celebration
Krishna Jeyanthi is celebrated on the eighth day of the Krishna Paksha of the month of shravana in the Hindu calendar. Read More
Janmastami and Rakshabandhan celebration at Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya, Vallioor
Janmastami and Rakshabandhan were celebrated on 18th august in Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya, Vallioor. The festival ceremony started at 11.30 a.m. with prayers in the presence of Shri. S.K. Read More
Karyakarta Prashikshan at Dibrugarh
On 17th August 2014 Karyakarta Prashikshan at Dibrugarh - Saphal Yuva : Yuva Bharat. 50 Youth participated. Read more
68th Independence Day Celebration
15th August is a golden day in the history of our nation. It was on this day in 1947, that India achieved her independence from foreign rule. Read More
Mathematics Teachers Orientation Camp conducted by VKSPV
Mathematics Teachers Orientation Camp conducted by VKSPV, Guwahati at VKV Dibrugarh from 2nd August to 4th August 2014. Read More
Independence Day Celebration at Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya, Vallioor
Independence Day was celebrated in a grand level on 15th August in our school campus. Shri. Sankararaman, Advocate & Secretary of Madha Amirthanantha Mayi Samithi hoisted the National flag. Read More
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- Samarth at VKV Tinsukia Read More
Sri Krishna The supreme : Author: A. Narayanan
Publication Year: 2011
Edition: 1
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 104
Price : 80 ₹
This book is dedicated to the old, revered and unknown Krishna Dasa, whom the author had the good fortune to meet and get his soulful blessings at 'Sevakunch' in Bridavan, where Lord Krishna performed 'Raasa leelas' with his beloved gopis. (Even today, it is believed that Krishna enacts his 'Raasa Leela', every night at this spot. Therefore people are forbidden to visit this place between 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.) Buy Now
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Wednesday, 20 August 2014
India's Gift to the World
Swami Vivekananda says :
Each nation must give in order to live. When you give life, you will have life; when you receive, you must pay for it by giving to all others; and that we have been living for so many thousands of years is a fact that stares us in the face, and the solution that remains is that we have been always giving to the outside world, whatever the ignorant may think. But the gift of India is the gift of religion and philosophy, and wisdom and spirituality. And religion does not want cohorts to march before its path and clear its way. Wisdom and philosophy do not want to be carried on floods of blood. Wisdom and philosophy do not march upon bleeding human bodies, do not march with violence but come on the wings of peace and love, and that has always been so. Therefore we had to give. I was asked by a young lady in London, "What have you Hindus done? You have never even conquered a single nation." That is
true from the point of view of the Englishman, the brave, the heroic, the Kshatriya — conquest is the greatest glory that one man can have over another. That is true from his point of view, but from ours it is quite the opposite. If I ask myself what has been the cause of India's greatness, I answer, because we have never conquered. That is our glory. (III, 273)
Each nation must give in order to live. When you give life, you will have life; when you receive, you must pay for it by giving to all others; and that we have been living for so many thousands of years is a fact that stares us in the face, and the solution that remains is that we have been always giving to the outside world, whatever the ignorant may think. But the gift of India is the gift of religion and philosophy, and wisdom and spirituality. And religion does not want cohorts to march before its path and clear its way. Wisdom and philosophy do not want to be carried on floods of blood. Wisdom and philosophy do not march upon bleeding human bodies, do not march with violence but come on the wings of peace and love, and that has always been so. Therefore we had to give. I was asked by a young lady in London, "What have you Hindus done? You have never even conquered a single nation." That is
true from the point of view of the Englishman, the brave, the heroic, the Kshatriya — conquest is the greatest glory that one man can have over another. That is true from his point of view, but from ours it is quite the opposite. If I ask myself what has been the cause of India's greatness, I answer, because we have never conquered. That is our glory. (III, 273)
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Up India !
Swami Vivekananda says :
Up, India, and conquer the world with your spirituality! Ay, as has been declared on this soil first, love must conquer hatred, hatred cannot conquer itself. Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism. Armies when they attempt to conquer armies only multiply and make brutes of humanity. Spirituality must conquer the West. Slowly they are finding out that what they want is spirituality to preserve them as nations. They are waiting for it, they are eager for it. Where is the supply to come from? Where are the men ready to go out to every country in the world with the messages of the great sages of India? Where are the men who are ready to sacrifice everything, so that this message shall reach every corner of the world? Such heroic spurs are wanted to help the spread of truth. Such heroic workers are wanted to go abroad and help to disseminate the great truths of the Vedanta.
The world wants it; without it the world will be destroyed. The whole of the Western world is on a volcano which may burst tomorrow, go to pieces tomorrow. They have searched every corner of the world and have found no respite. They have drunk deep of the cup of pleasure and found it vanity. Now is the time to work so that India's spiritual ideas may penetrate deep into the West. Therefore young men of Madras, I specially ask you to remember this. We must go out, we must conquer the world through our spirituality and philosophy. There is no other alternative, we must do it or die. The only condition of national life, of awakened and vigorous national life, is the conquest of the world by Indian thought. (III, 277)
Up, India, and conquer the world with your spirituality! Ay, as has been declared on this soil first, love must conquer hatred, hatred cannot conquer itself. Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism. Armies when they attempt to conquer armies only multiply and make brutes of humanity. Spirituality must conquer the West. Slowly they are finding out that what they want is spirituality to preserve them as nations. They are waiting for it, they are eager for it. Where is the supply to come from? Where are the men ready to go out to every country in the world with the messages of the great sages of India? Where are the men who are ready to sacrifice everything, so that this message shall reach every corner of the world? Such heroic spurs are wanted to help the spread of truth. Such heroic workers are wanted to go abroad and help to disseminate the great truths of the Vedanta.
The world wants it; without it the world will be destroyed. The whole of the Western world is on a volcano which may burst tomorrow, go to pieces tomorrow. They have searched every corner of the world and have found no respite. They have drunk deep of the cup of pleasure and found it vanity. Now is the time to work so that India's spiritual ideas may penetrate deep into the West. Therefore young men of Madras, I specially ask you to remember this. We must go out, we must conquer the world through our spirituality and philosophy. There is no other alternative, we must do it or die. The only condition of national life, of awakened and vigorous national life, is the conquest of the world by Indian thought. (III, 277)
Monday, 18 August 2014
Need of the Hour
Swami Vivekananda says :
This is the motherland of philosophy, of spirituality, and of ethics, of sweetness, gentleness, and love. These still exist, and my experience of the world leads me to stand on firm ground and make the bold statement that India is still the first and foremost of all the nations of the world in these respects. (III, 147)
Shall India die? Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest, fraud, force, and competition its ceremonies, and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be. The power of suffering is infinitely greater than the power of doing; the power of love is infinitely of greater potency than the power of hatred. Those that think that the present revival of Hinduism is only a manifestation of patriotic impulse are deluded. (III,348)
This is the motherland of philosophy, of spirituality, and of ethics, of sweetness, gentleness, and love. These still exist, and my experience of the world leads me to stand on firm ground and make the bold statement that India is still the first and foremost of all the nations of the world in these respects. (III, 147)
Shall India die? Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest, fraud, force, and competition its ceremonies, and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be. The power of suffering is infinitely greater than the power of doing; the power of love is infinitely of greater potency than the power of hatred. Those that think that the present revival of Hinduism is only a manifestation of patriotic impulse are deluded. (III,348)
Our life-blood : Spirituality
Swami Vivekananda says :
Our Life-blood : SPIRITUALITY!
With the giving up of quarrels all other improvements will come. When the life-blood is strong and pure, no disease germ can live in that body. Our life-blood is spirituality. If it flows clear, if it flows strong and pure and vigorous, everything is right; political, social, any other material defects, even the poverty of the land, will all be cured if that blood is pure. For if the disease germ be thrown out, nothing will be able to enter into the blood. To take a simile from modern medicine, we know that there must be two causes to produce a disease, some poison germ outside, and the state of the body. Until the body is in a state to admit the germs, until the body is degraded to a lower vitality so that the germs may enter and thrive and multiply, there is no power in any germ in the world to produce a disease in the body.
In fact, millions of germs are continually passing through everyone's body; but so long as it is vigorous, it never is conscious of them. It is only when the body is weak that these germs take possession of it and produce disease. Just so with the national life. 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. (III, 288)
Our Life-blood : SPIRITUALITY!
With the giving up of quarrels all other improvements will come. When the life-blood is strong and pure, no disease germ can live in that body. Our life-blood is spirituality. If it flows clear, if it flows strong and pure and vigorous, everything is right; political, social, any other material defects, even the poverty of the land, will all be cured if that blood is pure. For if the disease germ be thrown out, nothing will be able to enter into the blood. To take a simile from modern medicine, we know that there must be two causes to produce a disease, some poison germ outside, and the state of the body. Until the body is in a state to admit the germs, until the body is degraded to a lower vitality so that the germs may enter and thrive and multiply, there is no power in any germ in the world to produce a disease in the body.
In fact, millions of germs are continually passing through everyone's body; but so long as it is vigorous, it never is conscious of them. It is only when the body is weak that these germs take possession of it and produce disease. Just so with the national life. 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. (III, 288)
Sunday, 17 August 2014
Om
Swami Vivekananda Says:
"Om, this is the Brahman; Om, this is the greatest reality; he who knows the secret of this Om, whatever he desires that he gets." Ay, therefore first know the secret of this Om, that you are the Om; know the secret of this Tattvamasi, and then and then alone whatever you want shall come to you. If you want to be great materially, believe that you are so. I may be a little bubble, and you may be a wave mountain - high, but know that for both of us the infinite ocean is the background, the infinite Brahman is our magazine of power and strength, and we can draw as much as we like, both of us, I the bubble and you the mountain - high wave. Believe, therefore, in yourselves. The secret of Advaita is: Believe in yourselves first, and then believe in anything else. In the history of the world, you will find that only those nations that have believed in themselves have become great and strong. In the history of each nation, you will always find that only those individuals who have believed in themselves have become great and strong. Here, to India, came an Englishman who was only a clerk, and for want of funds and other reasons he twice tried to blow his brains out; and when he failed, he believed in himself, he believed that he was born to do great things; and that man became Lord Clive, the founder of the Empire. If he had believed the Padres and gone crawling all his life --"O Lord, I am weak, and I am low"-- where would he have been? In a lunatic asylum. You also are made lunatics by these evil teachings. I have seen, all the world over, the bad effects of these weak teachings of humility destroying the human race. Our children are brought up in this way, and is it a wonder that they become semi - lunatics?
"Om, this is the Brahman; Om, this is the greatest reality; he who knows the secret of this Om, whatever he desires that he gets." Ay, therefore first know the secret of this Om, that you are the Om; know the secret of this Tattvamasi, and then and then alone whatever you want shall come to you. If you want to be great materially, believe that you are so. I may be a little bubble, and you may be a wave mountain - high, but know that for both of us the infinite ocean is the background, the infinite Brahman is our magazine of power and strength, and we can draw as much as we like, both of us, I the bubble and you the mountain - high wave. Believe, therefore, in yourselves. The secret of Advaita is: Believe in yourselves first, and then believe in anything else. In the history of the world, you will find that only those nations that have believed in themselves have become great and strong. In the history of each nation, you will always find that only those individuals who have believed in themselves have become great and strong. Here, to India, came an Englishman who was only a clerk, and for want of funds and other reasons he twice tried to blow his brains out; and when he failed, he believed in himself, he believed that he was born to do great things; and that man became Lord Clive, the founder of the Empire. If he had believed the Padres and gone crawling all his life --"O Lord, I am weak, and I am low"-- where would he have been? In a lunatic asylum. You also are made lunatics by these evil teachings. I have seen, all the world over, the bad effects of these weak teachings of humility destroying the human race. Our children are brought up in this way, and is it a wonder that they become semi - lunatics?
....... Vedanta (Lahore)
Saturday, 16 August 2014
स्वार्थपरता और निःस्वार्थता
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दो शक्तियाँ सदा समानान्तर रेखाओं में एक दूसरे के साथ कार्य कर रहीं हैं। एक कहती है 'मैं' और दूसरी कहती है 'मैं नहीं'। उनकी अभिव्यक्ति केवल मनुष्यों में ही नहीं, किन्तु पशुओं में भी देखी जाती है--केवल पशुओं में ही नहीं क्षुद्रतम कीटाणुओं में भी। नर-रक्त की प्यासी लपलपाती जीभवाली बाघिन भी अपने बच्चे की रक्ष के लिए जान देने को प्रस्तुत रहती है। अत्यन्त बुरा आदमी, जो अनायास ही अपने भाई का गला काट सकता है--वह भी भूख से मरती हुई अपनी स्त्री तथा बाल बच्चों के लिए अपने प्राण निस्संकोच दे देता है। सृष्टि के भीतर ये दोनों शक्तियाँ पास-पास ही काम कर रहीं हैं--जहाँ एक शक्ति देखोगे, वहाँ दूसरी भी दीख पडेगी। एक स्वार्थपरता है, और दूसरी निःस्वार्थपरता। एक है ग्रहण, दूसरी त्याग। एक लेती है, दूसरी देती है। क्षुद्रतम प्राणी से लेकर उच्चतम प्राणी तक समस्त ब्रह्माण्ड इन्हीं दो शक्तियों का लीलाक्षेत्र है। इसके लिए किसी प्रमाण की आवश्यकता नहीं--यह स्वतः प्रमाण है।
क्या कोई मनुष्य यह स्वीकार कर सकता है कि यह प्रेम, अहं-शून्यता अथवा त्याग ही जगत् की एकमात्र धनात्मक शक्ति है? दूसरी शक्ति इस प्रेम-शक्ति का ही असम्यक् प्रयोग है, प्रेम से ही प्रतिद्वन्द्विता की उत्पत्ति होती है, प्रेम ही प्रतियोगिता का मूल है। निःस्वार्थपरता ही अशुभ की माता है। शुभ ही अशुभ का जनक है, और अशुभ का परिणाम भी शुभ के अतिरिक्त और कुछ नहीं है।
क्या कोई मनुष्य यह स्वीकार कर सकता है कि यह प्रेम, अहं-शून्यता अथवा त्याग ही जगत् की एकमात्र धनात्मक शक्ति है? दूसरी शक्ति इस प्रेम-शक्ति का ही असम्यक् प्रयोग है, प्रेम से ही प्रतिद्वन्द्विता की उत्पत्ति होती है, प्रेम ही प्रतियोगिता का मूल है। निःस्वार्थपरता ही अशुभ की माता है। शुभ ही अशुभ का जनक है, और अशुभ का परिणाम भी शुभ के अतिरिक्त और कुछ नहीं है।
(VIII, ५९-६०)
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The main theme of my life is to take the message of Sanatana Dharma to every home and pave the way for launching, in a big way, the man-making programme preached and envisaged by great seers like Swami Vivekananda. - Mananeeya Eknathji
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Thursday, 14 August 2014
Love is God : : Vivekananda Kendra News
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Love- Love is God : "None, O beloved, loves the husband for the husband's sake, but for the Self that is in the husband; none, O beloved, ever loves the wife for the wife's sake, but for the Self that is in the wife. None ever loves anything else, except for the Self." Even this selfishness which is so much condemned, is but a manifestation of same love. Stand aside from this play, do not mix in it, but see this wonderful panorama, this grand drama, played scene after scene, and hear this wonderful harmony; all are manifestation of the same love. Even in the selfishness, that self will multiply, grow and grow. That one self, the one man, will become two selves when he gets married; several, when he gets children; and thus he grows until he feels the whole world as his Self, the whole universe as his Self. He expands into one mass of universal love, infinite love - the love that is God. --Swami Vivekananda
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बचपन से मिले संस्कार, शिक्षा और संस्कृति के साथ संसार में कदम रखने वाला व्यक्ति, जब अच्छी-बुरी परिस्थितियों से गुजरता है, तो संसारी अनुभूतियों के साथ मिले अहं से उसका जो व्यक्तित्व बनाता है- वहीँ उसकी अस्मिता कहलाती है I अपने वज़ूद को कायम रखने के प्रयास में उसका अहंकारी हो जाना स्वाभाविक है और इसी के चलते अपने-अपने स्वार्थों के वशीभूत लोग, उसके प्रशंसक और निंदक हो जाते है I वाद-विवाद या बहस की जड़ें अपने-अपने अहं से खुराक लेती रहती हैं I आत्म-गौरव इसका सकारात्मक पक्ष है, तो झूठा अभिमान नकारात्मक पक्ष I सारा संसार इन दोनों पक्षों के बीच पेंडुलम की तरह झूलता रहता है I विस्तृत
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Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalayas Arunachal Pradesh Trust June and July Month Report
Swami Vivekananda always stressed the need of the harmonious development of heart and head in Education. We have many activities for the cognitive development but very few for the heart. We need to aim that our children and co –workers feel secured and loved and for that we should be affectionate towards them. The growth of the heart is possible only when one is aware of the needs of the people around. Read More
Samarpan - Annual Report of Vedic Vision Foundation 2013-2014
As always it is a pleasure to look back on the year and offer our grateful thanks to all our trustees, members of the managing committee of Vivekananda Kendra and well wishers who are part of Vivekananda Kendra family at Kodungallur. May the most elevating vedic vision of our seers ever guide us in all that we do so that, our great Motherland regains her ancient glory and be seated as the Jagat Guru blessing the entire humanity. Read More
"Safal YUVA - YUVA Bharat" Trainers' Training Program at Hyderabad
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One day Mananeeya Eknathji Janmasatapdi Parva Karyakrta prashikshan karyashala was organised in Panipat, Haryana on 27 July 2014.Dr. Rajbir Dabur, parva prashikshan pramukh of Haryana spoke on Mananeeya Eknathji. Read More
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बचपन से मिले संस्कार, शिक्षा और संस्कृति के साथ संसार में कदम रखने वाला व्यक्ति, जब अच्छी-बुरी परिस्थितियों से गुजरता है, तो संसारी अनुभूतियों के साथ मिले अहं से उसका जो व्यक्तित्व बनाता है- वहीँ उसकी अस्मिता कहलाती है I अपने वज़ूद को कायम रखने के प्रयास में उसका अहंकारी हो जाना स्वाभाविक है और इसी के चलते अपने-अपने स्वार्थों के वशीभूत लोग, उसके प्रशंसक और निंदक हो जाते है I वाद-विवाद या बहस की जड़ें अपने-अपने अहं से खुराक लेती रहती हैं I आत्म-गौरव इसका सकारात्मक पक्ष है, तो झूठा अभिमान नकारात्मक पक्ष I सारा संसार इन दोनों पक्षों के बीच पेंडुलम की तरह झूलता रहता है I विस्तृत
Vivekananda Kendra Patrika : August 2014 Editorial For Subscription
Facets of SWAMI VIVEKANANDA-II
Of all the spiritual seers in the history of humanity Swami Vivekananda is unique. His was a mission set in a condition almost utterly negative all around. India was colonized by the British. Colonialism was seen as not just a political conquest but also as a socio-economic conquest and more importantly as a spiritual conquest of India by the West. The Western Imperialism justified and positioned itself as a civilizing mission of the dark-skinned pagan 'Hindoos'. On the other side India was suffering from the internal problems caused by social stagnation. Read More
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