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Celebration at Belur Math
Selected
Teachings of Swami Vivekananda
My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto
mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of
life.
Education
is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.
We want that education by which character is formed,
strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one
can stand on one's own feet.
So long as the
millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who,
having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.
Whatever
you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will
be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
If you have
faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological
gods, … and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for
you. Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong;
that is what we need.
Strength,
strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and
sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes
ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.
The
older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is
my new Gospel.
Purity,
patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success, and above
all, love.
Religion
is realization; not talk, not doctrine, nor theories, however beautiful
they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing or acknowledging; it is
the whole soul becoming changed into what it believes.
Religion
is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
Teach
yourselves, teach everyone his real nature, call uon the sleeping soul and
see how it awakes. Power will come, glory will come, goodness will come,
purity will come, and everything that is excellent will come when this
sleeping soul is roused to self-conscious activity.
They
alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
This
is the gist of all worship – to be pure and to do good to others.
It
is love and love alone that I preach, and I base my teaching on the great
Vedantic truth of the sameness and omnipresence of the Soul of the
Universe.
LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Teachings
of Vivekananda
Contributions to World
Contributions to Hinduism
Contributions to India
Chronology of Main Events
Addresses at the Parliament of Religions, Chicago
A Short Life of Swami Vivekananda (PDF)
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
National Youth Day Celebration at Belur Math
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india.gov.in
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