Swamy vivekananda birthday - national youth day - Students

Swami Vivekananda in 1893
Born	12 January 1863 Monday Kolkata, Bengal, India
Died	4 July 1902 (aged 39) Friday Belur Math near Kolkata
Birth name	Narendranatha Dutta
Founder of	Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
Guru	Ramakrishna Paramahansa
Philosophy	Vedanta
Literary works	Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga
Prominent Disciple(s)	Swami Sadananda, Sister Nivedita

Quotation	Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.^[1]
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Ashish Kulkarni (Article Trainee) (44 Points)
Replied 12 January 2012

It is really praiseworthy of you to post the message of a Special Personality who had come to show India, especially the youth, a proper direction and the real gole of human life.. I was about to write something on Swami Vivekanandaji, but when i saw your post i felt relieved, atleast there are some who have not forgotten his immense contribution to humanity.

Let us remember him and more importantly his teachings not only today, but everyday..

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Sanket (!..Live to Give..!) (16427 Points)
Replied 12 January 2012

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Suresh Prasad (www.aubsp.com) (15630 Points)
Replied 12 January 2012

First known photo of Swami Vivekananda as a wandering monk at Jaipur

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Happy Youth day to all,

Not with sweets, not with parties..

Celebrate this special day by following his principles..,

His favourite book was Bhagavadgita, Make this great person happy by chanting atleast one sloka of Bhagavadgita,

Bring a smile on the faces of those poor children, remember one great soul in the heaven, will be smiling too..

Vivekananda inspired Jamshedji Tata to set up Indian Institute of Science, one of India's finest Institutions...

Be a member of his inspired people's club, Be inspired.. Contribute a little to Mother India....

Happy Youth Day..,

Happy Youth day to you too Sree..and Thankyou for opening thread for memorable day..,

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Rahul Sharma (----------) (8192 Points)
Replied 12 January 2012

Happy Birthday to the man of motivation and inspiration - The Swami Vivekananda.

Swami Vivekananda was a well known spiritual gaint of India who became famous with his representation of Hinduism at the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893. His deep spiritual insight, fervid eloquence, brilliant conversation, broad human sympathy, and inspirational personality made an irresistible appeal to any one who came in contact with him.
In America Vivekananda's mission was the interpretation of India's spiritual culture, especially in its Vedantic setting. He also tried to enrich the religious consciousness of the Americans through the rational and humanistic teachings of the Vedanta philosophy. In America he became India's spiritual ambassador and pleaded eloquently for better understanding between India and the New World in order to create a healthy synthesis of East and West, of religion and science.

Vivekananda strove to promote peace and human brotherhood on the spiritual foundation of the Vedantic Oneness of existence. A mystic of the highest order, Vivekananda had a direct and intuitive experience of Reality. He derived his ideas from that unfailing source of wisdom and often presented them in the soulstirring language of poetry. In the course of a short life of thirty-nine years (1863-1902), he wrote a treasure of literature on Hindu philosophy and organized the Ramakrishna Order of monks, which is the most outstanding religious organization of modern India.

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Apurva (CA- IPCC) (39 Points)
Replied 12 January 2012

He tried to fill courage and confidence in youth and freedom fighters. Very relevent post for the day.

Active Youth Day wishes to all the members of CCI

Ritesh Indian Son[CMA*CS*CA] (" Simple Living High Thinking ") (4117 Points)
Replied 13 January 2012

He is our youth Inspiration..........Happy Belated SWami ji..:)

srinivass (CA Final) (2466 Points)
Replied 13 January 2012

Originally posted by : Apurva
	He tried to fill courage and confidence in youth and freedom fighters. Very relevent post for the day. Active Youth Day wishes to all the members of CCI

Harish (CA Student) (568 Points)
Replied 13 January 2012

Swami Vivekananda..... Icon of the Youth

neha (NA) (24 Points)
Replied 13 January 2012

Its realyy sad that we have forgotten about our great heritage...These days they are restricted to our school syllabus....but here's how we can remember him.....check these quotes.You'll wonder why we didn't know all this before....its inspiring....

1. If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

2. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

3. Come out into the universe of Light. Everything in the universe is yours, stretch out your arms and embrace it with love. If you every felt you wanted to do that, you have felt God.

4. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

5. Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore make your own future. 6. There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself…. Burst your own cocoon and come out aw the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.

7. It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world, that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!

8. Hold to the idea, “I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act,” and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

9. All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.

10. Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

(Guest)

LOL....

1. If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

FOR EXAMPLE..??

2. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

MY IDEA WAS TO MARRY AISWARYA

3. Come out into the universe of Light. Everything in the universe is yours, stretch out your arms and embrace it with love. If you every felt you wanted to do that, you have felt God.

YOU SAY HITLER WAS ME?

4. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

THEN WHY I AM NOT GOOD AT MATHS?

5. Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore make your own future.

6. There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself…. Burst your own cocoon and come out aw the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.

HOW?

7. It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world, that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!

AISH IS STILL BEAUTIFUL..EVEN IF I DONT LIKE HER NOW

8. Hold to the idea, “I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act,” and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

YOU ARE LEADING ME TO A MENTAL ASYLUM

9. All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.

NOT ALL LOVE LEADS TO EXPANSION

10. Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

THEN GIVE ME 10000 BUCKS!!!

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING???