The Voice Of Swami Vivekananda-Swami Vivekananda Said To Youth

 Played a crucial role in his ability to spread his message and influence people around the world. The Voice of Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda Said To Youth. His powerful oratory skills and the passion and conviction in his voice helped him to inspire and motivate people to think deeply about their own spiritual lives and to work for social and cultural reform. Swami Vivekananda had many messages for youth, and he believed that young people had the power to bring about positive change in the world. Some of the key messages he had for youth include:

1. Believe in yourself: Swami Vivekananda believed that young people had the potential to achieve great things and that they should have confidence in their abilities and their potential.

2. Take responsibility: Swami Vivekananda encouraged young people to take responsibility for their own lives and to be proactive in creating the future they want.
3. Practice discipline: Swami Vivekananda believed that discipline was essential for success, and he encouraged young people to develop strong habits and routines that would help them achieve their goals.
4. Be courageous: Swami Vivekananda encouraged young people to be brave and to stand up for what they believe in, even in the face of challenges and adversity.
5. Work hard: Swami Vivekananda believed that hard work and dedication were crucial for success and encouraged young people to put in the effort required to achieve their goals.

The Voice of VIVEKANANDA

1. Man comes from God in the beginning, in the middle he becomes man, and in the end, he goes back to God.
2. He is an Acharya through whom the Divine Power acts.
3. According to Karma Yoga, the action one has done cannot be destroyed, until it has borne its fruit; no power in nature can stop it from yielding its results.
4. Know for certain that there is no greater Tirtha (holy spot) than the body of man. Nowhere else is the Atman so manifest as here.
5. This world is just a gymnasium in which we play; our life is an eternal holiday.
6. Strength is the one thing needful. Strength is the medicine for the world's disease. And nothing gives such strength as the idea of Monism.
7. Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. Being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God, nearer than any prayer.

8. Any new discovery of truth does not contradict the past truth but fits into it.

9. Our King Janaka tilled the soil with his own hands, and he was also the greatest of the knowers of Truth, of his time.

10. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

11. You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

12. The senses cheat you day and night. Vedanta found that ages ago, modern science is just discovering- ing the same fact.

13. It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice.

14. Of Jnana and Bhakti, he who advocates one and denounces the other cannot be either a Jnanin or a Bhakta, but he is a thief and a cheat.

15. While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.

16. The wind of grace of the Lord is blowing on, for ever and ever. Do you spread your sail.

17. Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the, hour every day, but if you do not practise, you will not get one step further.

18. So long as the 'skin sky' surrounds man, that is, so long as he identifies himself with his body, he cannot see God.

19. Men worship Incarnations such as Christ or Buddha. They are the most perfect manifestations of the eternal Self. They are much higher than all the conceptions of God that you or I can make. 20. The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.

21. Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

22. The monk is the religious expert, having made religion his one metier of life. He is the soldier of God.

23. I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!

24. The first thing to be got rid of by him who would be a Jnani, is fear.

25. Brahman, this Reality, is un- known and unknowable, not in the sense of the agnostic, but because to know Him would be a blasphemy, because you are He already.

26. Where do you find the Indian Society standing still? It is always on the move. Sometimes, as in the times of foreign invasions, the move- ment has been slow, at other times quicker. This is what I say to my countrymen. I do not condemn them. I look into their past. I find that under the circumstances no nation could do more glorious work. I tell them that they have done well. I only ask them to do better.

27. Our ideal is the Brahmin of spiritual culture and renunciation. By the Brahmin ideal what do I mean? I mean the ideal Brahmin- ness in which worldliness is altoge- ther absent and true wisdom is abun- dantly present. That is the ideal of the Hindu race.

28. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by them.

29. Maya is eternal both-ways, taken universally, as genus; but it is non-eternal individually.

30. Renunciation is the real beginn- ing of religion. Nowadays it is very hard even to talk of renunciation. It was said of me in America that I was a man who came out of a land that had been dead and buried for five thousand years, and talked of renunciation. So says perhaps the English philosopher. Yet it is true that that is the only path to religion. Renounce and give up.

31. It is impossible to find God outside of ourselves. We are the greatest temple.

32. Worship of God, worship of the holy ones, concentration and meditation, and unselfish work, these are the ways of breaking away from Maya's net; but we must first have the strong desire to get free.

33. Wisdom can be practised even on a battlefield. The Gita preached so.

34. To think there is any imperfec- tion creates it. Thoughts of strength and perfection alone can cure it.

35. Where is fate, and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. We make our own destiny.

36. Those that want to help man- kind must take their own pleasure and pain, name and fame, and all sorts of interests, and make a bundle of them and throw them into the sea, and then come to the Lord. That is what all the masters said and did.

37. The finer the organism, the higher the culture-the greater is the power to enjoy pleasure, and the sharper are the pangs of pain.

38. With us, the prominent idea is Mukti; with the Westerners it is Dharma. What we desire is-Mukti; what they want is-Dharma. Dharma is that which makes man seek for happiness in this world or the next.

39. They had hundreds of Rishis in ancient India. We will have millions-we are going to have, and the sooner everyone of you believes

in this, the better for India and the better for the world. Whatever you believe, that you will be.

40. The greatest men in the world have passed away unknown. Silently they live and silently they pass away, and in time their thoughts find expression in Buddhas or Christs, and it is these latter that become known to us.

41. Better be ready to live in rags with Christ than to live in palaces without him.

42. Vedanta says, 'We are free and not free at the same time.' That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side.

43. In our country, the imparting of knowledge has always been through men of renunciation. India had all good prospects so long as tyagis (men of renunciation) used to impart knowledge.

44. Creation is infinite, without beginning and without end, the ever-moving ripple in an infinite lake.

45. Monism and Dualism are essentially the same. The difference consists in the expression. Dualism is in nature. in manifestation, and Monism is pure spirituality in the essence.

46. The reconciliation of the differ- ent paths of Dharma and work without desire or attachment-these are the two special characteristics of the Gita.

47. The personal God is the highest reading that can be attained to, of the Impersonal. by intellect. the human

48. The teachings of Krishna as taught by the Gita are the grandest the world has ever known. He who wrote that wonderful poem was one of those rare souls whose lives send a wave of regeneration through the world.

49. The living secrets must be handed down from Guru to disciple, in every science, much more so in religion.

50. Jesus Christ was Shakya Muni was a a Jew, and Hindu. The Jews rejected Jesus Christ, nay

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crucified him, and the Hindus have accepted Shakya Muni as God and worship him.

51. The Vedas teach God-both personal and impersonal. God is everywhere preached in the Gita. Hinduism is nothing without God.

52. The man who cannot write even his Own name can be perfectly religious, and the man with all the libraries of the world in his head may fail to be. Learning is not a condition of spiritual growth.

53. A great Bhakta (Hanuman) once said when asked what day of the month it was, 'God is my eternal date, no other date I care for.'

54. My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation; out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.

55. Swami Vivekananda Said To Youth That Just as in the case of electricity the modern theory is that the power leaves the dynamo and com- pletes the circle back to the dynamo, so with hate and love; they must come back to the source.

56. My religion is one of which Christianity is an offshoot and Buddhism a rebel child.

57. May He who is the Shiva of the Shaivites, the Vishnu of the Vaishna- vites, the Karma of the Karmis, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jina of the Jains, the Jehova of the Christians and the Jews, the Allah of the Mohammedans, the Lord of every sect, the Brahman of the Vedantists, He, the all pervading, whose glory has been known only in this land-may He bless us, may He help us, may He give strength unto us, energy unto us!

58. The yellow robe of the Sannya- sin is the sign of the free. Give up the begger's dress of the world; wear the flag of freedom, the ochre robe.

59. The greatest name man ever gave to God is Truth. Truth is the fruit of realisation; therefore seek it within the soul.

60. The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new Gospel. *

61. When we have the three great 'gifts of God', a human body, intense desire to be free, and the help of a soul to show us the way, then liberation is certain for us. Mukti is ours.

62. Bring in the light; the darkness will vanish of itself. Let the lion of Vedanta roar. The foxes will fly to their holes.

63. A pure heart sees beyond the intellect; it gets inspired; it knows things that reason can never know; and wherever there is conflict between the pure heart and intellect, always side with the pure heart.

64. Prophets preach, but the Incar- nations like Jesus, Buddha, and Sri Ramakrishna can give religion: one glance, one touch is enough.

65. Two kinds of men do not worship God as the human brute who has no religion. and the Paramahamsa, who has transcended the limits of his own human nature.

66. The highest ideal we have is God. Meditate on Him. We cannot know the Knower, but we are He.

67. In religion there is no caste; caste is simply a social institution.

68. Every force completes a circuit. The force we call man starts from the Infinite God and must return to Him.

69. A perfect man's body mechanically does right; it can do only good because it is fully purified. The past momentum that carries on the wheel of the body is all good. All evil tendencies are burnt out.

70. India has not yet assimilated the work of Buddha. She is hypnotized by His voice, not made alive by it.

71. In India religion is shackled. No man was was never ever challenged in the selection of is Ishta Devata, or his sect, or his preceptor, and religion grew, as it grew nowhere else. For liberty is the only condition of growth. 72. Vedanta knows no sin. There are mistakes, but no sin, and in the long run everything is going to be all right. No Satan-none of this nonsense. One Vedanta believes in only sin, only one in the world, and it is this: the moment you think you are a sinner or anybody is a sinner, that is sin.

73. The men of the world should have no voice in the affairs of the Sannyasins. The Sannyasin should have nothing to do with the rich, his duty is with the poor. He should treat the poor with loving care, and serve them joyfully with all his might.

74. We must work through the law before we come to liberty. External help and methods, forms, ceremonies, creeds, and doctrines, all have their right place and are meant to support and strengthen us until we become strong. Then they are more necessary. No

75. It is a most glorious dispensation of the Lord that there are so many religions in the world; and would to God that these would increase every day until every man had a religion unto himself.

76. Neither numbers, nor wealth, nor learning, nor eloquence, nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one-word anubhuti, realization.

77. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was the embodiment of the India that is past, and a foreshadowing of the India that is to be, the bearer of spiritual light unto nations.

78. Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience and success is yours.

79. Regarding Sri Ramakrishna, he only knows what he really is; his frame is only a human one, but everything else about him is entirely different from that of others.

80. Om represents the whole phenomena of sound production. As such it must be the natural symbol, the matrix of all the various sounds. Om has become the one symbol for the religious aspiration of the vast majority of human beings.

81. Ramakrishna's whole life was spent breaking down the barriers of sectarianism and dogma. He advocated and strove to establish absolute freedom of thought.

82. Catch a glimpse at least, every day, of that world of infinite beauty and peace and purity-the spiritual, and try to live in it day and night. 83. Let us pray, 'Lead, kindly light' -a beam will come through the dark, and a hand will be stretched forth to lead us.

84. Worship everything as God- every form is His temple. All else is a delusion. Always look within never without. Such is the God that Vedanta preaches and such is His worship.

85. All that I am, all that the world itself will someday be, is owing to my Master, Sri Ramakrishna, who incarnated and experienced and taught this wonderful unity which underlies everything, having dis- covered it alike in Hinduism, in Islam, and in Christianity.

86. But this I say, Remember to pray,

That God is true all else is nothing!

This world's a dream

Though true it seems.

And only Truth is He the living! The real me is none but He And never ing! never matter change-

87. Sri Ramakrishna is our center. Each one of us (his direct disciples) is a ray of that light center.

88. The touch of the Guru, the transmittal of spiritual energy, will quicken your heart. Then will begin the growth. That is the real baptism by fire. No more stopping. You go on and go on.

89. Take it from me, never did come to this earth such an all-perfect man as Sri Ramakrishna! In the

utter darkness of the world, this great man is like the shining pillar of illumination in this age! And by his light alone will man now cross the ocean of Samsara!

90. The devotee must seek and accept the Guru or spiritual pre- ceptor, as his counselor, philosopher, friend, and guide. In short, the Guru is the sine qua non of progress in the path of spirituality.

91. Would to God that the whole world was Advaitists tomorrow, not only in theory but in realization!

92. Vedanta formulates no universal brotherhood, but universal oneness.

93. Vedanta only preaches the principle and the method it leaves to you. Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

94. Not a single one of Krishna's deeds was done for Himself. Every one of them was for the good of others.

95. Sri Ramakrishna used to say, 'Whoever has prayed to God sincerely- ly for one day, must come here.'. 96. Onward! Upon ages of struggle a character is built. Be not discouraged. One word of truth can never be lost; for ages, it may be hidden under rubbish, but it will show itself sooner or later.

97. We must learn not only to attach the mind to one thing exclusively but also to detach it at a moment's notice and place it upon something else. These two should be developed together to make it safe.

98. Do not look at the faults of others. You cannot judge a man by his faults. Do not recognize wickedness in others. Wickedness is ignorance and weakness.

99. Of the West, the goal is individual independence, the language, money-making education, the means, and politics; of India, the goal is Mukti, the language, the Veda, the means, and renunciation.

100. He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a consideration of high or low. He whose love knows no end, and never stops to consider high or low, has the whole world lying at his feet. 101. Avataras are Kapalamochanas, that is, they can alter the doom of people. They can stir the whole world.

102. Things are not bettered, but we are bettered, by making changes in them.

103. The Absolute is the material of both God and Man. As Absolute Omnipresent Being we are all one; and as personal beings, God is the eternal master and we are the eternal- al servants.

104. Close your lips and let your hearts open. Work out the salvation of this land and of the whole world, each of you thinking that the entire burden is on your shoulders. Carry the light and the life of the Vedanta to every door, and rouse up the divinity that is hidden within every soul. * *

105. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa came for the good of the world. Call him a man, or God, or an Incarnation, just as you, please. Accept him each in your own light.

106. Proclaim to the whole world with trumpet voice, 'There is no sin in thee, there is no misery in thee, thou art the reservoir of omnipotent power. Arise, awake, and manifest the Divinity within!'. 107. With the conviction firmly rooted in your heart that you are the servants of the Lord, His children, helpers in the fulfillment of His purposes, enter the arena of work.

108 Know for certain, that the work done by me is not the work of Vivekananda, it is His work, the Lord's own work!

Swami Vivekananda was a Hindu monk and spiritual leader who is best known for his participation in the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893, where he delivered a speech that introduced Hinduism to the Western world. He is also known for his writings and teachings on spirituality, religion, and social reform.

Swami Vivekananda had a deep, resonant voice that was known for its clarity and conviction. He was an excellent speaker and was able to captivate and inspire his audiences with his eloquence and passion. His voice was described as being "powerful and magnetic," and he was able to convey the depth and wisdom of his teachings with great effectiveness.