Fw: 150th Year Centenary of Swami Vivekananda (National Youth Day)

 

 

From: DCW Behala

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Subject: 150th Year Centenary of Swami Vivekananda (National Youth Day)

 

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 Influence on                  Subhash Chandra Bose, Aurobindo Ghose, Bagha Jatin, Mahatma Gandhi, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, Jamshedji Tata 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

 

Swami Vivekananda was a well known spiritual giant 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 soul-stirring 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.

 

More details about Swami Vivekananda: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda

 

Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/complete_works.htm