SWAMI VIVEKANANDA:SPECIAL ON NATIONAL YOUTH DAY:

JAN, 12, the birthday of Swami Vivekananda is celebrated every year as the National Youth Day.

Glimpses of his Thoughts and Teachings: See how much relevant he is after a long period of 120 years:

 
1. Love Is The Law Of Life: 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.


2. It's Your Outlook That Matters: It is our own mental attitude, which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.


3. Life is Beautiful: 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!


4. It's The Way You Feel: Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.


5. Set Yourself Free: The moment I have realised God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.


6. Don't Play The Blame Game: Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury and injure yourself as well


7. Help Others: If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.


8. Uphold Your Ideals: 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.


9. Listen To Your Soul: You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.


10. Be Yourself: The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!


11. Nothing Is Impossible: Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin - to say that you are weak, or others are weak.


12. You Have The Power: All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.


13. Learn Everyday: The goal of mankind is knowledge... now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.


14. Be Truthful: Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.


15. Think Different: All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.



16. Be Cheerful:If U have a clouded face do not go out that day, shut yourself up in the room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world.
 
 

SOME QUOTES BY SWAMI VIVEKANANDA:

• All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
• All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
• As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
• Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
• External nature is only internal nature writ large.
• GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
• If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
• If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
• In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
• Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
• 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.
• 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.
• That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
• The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
• The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
• The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
• The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
• The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
• Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
• We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
• When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
• Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
• You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
• You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.