Tuesday, January 12, 2016

My Thoughts on Swami Vivekananda

Today is swami Vivekanada's 153rd jayanti, today is celebrated as youth day in India, Swami is a true youth icon he always think for the growth of youth of India, he was a very brilliant student he always want to do some new work and want to test everything, he was a son of a wealthy lawyer Vishwanath Dutta, his real name is Narendra Nath Dutta family and friends called him Naren, he was very fond of science and arts, he use to sing with his friends in colleges and any other religious functions, he was very charming personality as I said he was scholar and read about all the known philosophical books by the European authors, he was very fond of Jeremy Benthem and use to quote him many times, he was a voracious reader since he was in primary school, his family atmosphere is very helpful to develop his behaviour of learning, he was very rational by thought from his childhood he was very eager to know that there is any God or not he asked many persons that they saw God or not most of them are giving vague answers like the modern self styled God-men as he grow young his curiosity develops many folds one day he met a very saintly character he asked that would you ever saw or met with God, but he get the most bewildered answer which he never heard from any one the saint said yes I see God just like I see you my child, Swamiji got amazed by the answer he thought who is this man who seems to be a mad man but he only he gives me this answers which no body is able to give me? He was Shri Ram Krishna Paramhansa the spiritual Guru of Swami Vivekananda after that these pair of Guru and chela met many times have a round arguments and counter arguments, Swamiji never believed on his Guru blindly, he was very different from his Guru but the same, Swami Vivekanada was always very different from all the other disciples of Shri Ram Krishna, like Swami Vivekanada was knows about other religions very well he knows about the world history and he knows about the political conditions of his contemporary, he definitely an ocean of knowledge but what he lacks that time was divine guidance which is provided by Shri Rama Krishna, these are little bit sipritual matters, so you amy be not very interested in it very much I told you about the story of these Guru Sishya later some day( if God is willing me to do that, and you are want me to tell the story). HereI want to emphasis on the point thay how he becomes the youth icon of India, after death of his Guru he went to India as Parivrajak he toured all the parts of India met many Rajas and Maharajas and many other different types of people from every walks of life, in the meantime he came to know about the religious parliament at Chicago America, the Maharaja of Khetri motivated him to go and join the parliament of religion to present the Hindu religion there, after many difficulties he went to America and participated at the Parliament of Religion, he started his speech by the "My Dear sisters and Brothers of America" these simple lines mesmerised people there was round of applause continue for the five minutes and after that what speech he was delivered was written in the golden letters in History, his Chicago address is mind blowing, you can see all his speeches on online at the websites of Ramkrishna Mission and in wikipedia also, after that speech he was continuously giving lectures in America he was charging for his lectures, his intentions was to collect funds for the mission, his main purpose is to raise an organisation which helps the people of our country he wants that his country become prosperous and develop he said that we can't be a military superpower nor an economic super power if India have to develop herself than it should be by development of spiritual power we can become the spiritual super power of the world, and the second thing he said the the civilization which don't give the women power its proper respect it can't be developed look at west they worship there women although by way of sex but look how prosperous they are and look at us we always tried to suppress our women we want that they remain uneducated we don't want that a girl child took birth at our homes,we don't give Maa Bhuvaneshwari her proper respect, than how we develop ourselves if we want to develop than we have to develop our women otherwise our countries development is not possible, look how true he was even 120 years before, he said to our youth that if you want to go to heaven than devote your time more in Football fields rather than sitting in a room and reading Geeta or any other religious books, he had a definite idea of education he thought that by getting proper education of and development of science is the way to develop our country, he told to our countrymen to rise above from the superstitious system, he also negated the 'Holy Cow' theory and told that it is just a superstitious belief he said you have your thirty three carores gods and goddess but until and unless you believe in your self no god is able to help you, he said that if we Indian not able to rise above this stupid cast system we are not able to develop as union and foreign power is able to rule us, he always go and served the Pariahs, he never discriminate in the name of caste creed and religion he loved all and loved by all, many times he take refuge in the huts of Pariahs and Shudras, he ate with share there feelings and give them always equal status and fight for them he respect every religion he respect every sect he was a Vedanta scholar his work of the Raaj Yoga Karma Yoga Bhakti Yoga is commendable he was a remarkable person his lectures on the dharma and vedanta and Advaita was best work done by any scholar of his times, he was an ascetic he travelled all the world share his residence with kings as well as labours, he always negated the miracles theory of God he never said that he or his master was a miracleman they always said that 'Love the God and God will love you' Swami Vivekananda is a youth icon unfortunately he died at very young age, I don't have the talent to tell anything about him but it is my feeling for him which I want to convey by this, his life is as large like an ocean I need lakhs of words and precious words to tell his story I am not able to do that ( If God permits you want me to tell more about him than only I am able to tell the other part of the story). Swami Vivekanada always thought for the nation, he said I don't want salvation of my own until even a single Dog remain hungry in my country, I come here again and again to serve this country and its people,, I want to dedicate this article to all my young sisters and brothers who are in schools and colleges now, I still try to understand Swami Vivekanada he was a perfect motivator he stills motivate millions of the people you all are youths and future of India. country needs you energy please don't waste your energy on petty matters use your energie to develop a better tomorrow don't commit the mistakes what I do, develop yourself in science and technology know your religion and believe on yourself   to the youths he said ' Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is not reached'
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 Chotu Dada

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