A Tribute to Swami Vivekananda
Dear Friends,
Best Wishes on 150th Birth
Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda
The Society for Positive Philosophy and
Interdisciplinary Studies (SPPIS) Haryana and Centre for Positive Philosophy and
Interdisciplinary Studies (CPPIS), Pehowa (Kurukshetra) convey best wishes on
the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda
and his birthday also considered as National Youth Day.
Swami Vivekananda (January 12, 1863 - July
4, 1902) is considered as one of the most influential spiritual educationist
and thinker of India. He was disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and was the founder
of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. He is considered by many as an
icon for his fearless courage, his positive exhortations to the youth, his
broad outlook to social problems, and countless lectures and discourses on
Vedanta philosophy. For him, “Education is not the amount of information that
is put into your brain and runs riots there, undigested all your life. We must
have life-building, man-making, character-making, assimilation of ideas.” It is
rightly said that, “The Swami's mission was both national and international. A
lover of mankind, he 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.” For example:
“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.”
By Swami Vivekananda:
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your
life - think of it, dream of it, live on that 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 is way great spiritual
giants are produced.”
“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to
be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result
of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in
future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”
Vivekananda’s
personality was notable for its comprehensiveness and deep sensitiveness to the
evils prevalent in the socio-economic and moral structure of the country. He
preached both monistic asceticism and social service. His intellectual vision
was immensely clear and he could easily penetrate into the currents and
cross-currents that were manifested in the history of India. We made online version of our published book “Philosophy of Swami
Vivekananda” which prepared for wide
circulation and to propagate Swami Vivekananda’s teachings. Kindly download the
same from below link:
Dr.
Desh Raj Sirswal
Chief-Functionary, SPPIS (Haryana)
Programme Co-ordinator, CPPIS (Pehowa)
12th January,
2013
