SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Swami Vivekananda was the disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahansa. He founded the Ramakrishna mission to spread the teachings of his Guru throughout the world. One of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of India, he sought to promote the philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga. Swami Vivekananda was the first spiritual leader of India who introduced Hinduism, Yoga and Vedanta at the World's Parliament of Religions. Read this biography further to know more about Swami Vivekananda, his teachings and his life history.

Swami Vivekananda Teachings

• 1. Each individual is himself responsible for making or breaking his life. He should concentrate on his goal and should not rest until it is achieved.
• 2. God in Nirankar (formless), with attributes.
• 3. God is one and different religions serve as a path towards the same God.
• 4. God is present in every living being and he, who serves others, serves God.
• 5. Human being should strive towards truth, purity, sincerity, morals and unselfishness.
• 6. The quintessence of every religion is to make people realize the highest spiritual truth.
• 7. To be good and to do good is the main aim of every individual.

Indian Spiritual leader of the Hindu religion (Vedanta), Disciple of the famous mystic-saint Sri Ramakrishna of Calcutta in19th century. Founder of the Ramakrishna Order of Monks. 1863-1902

“POWERS OF POSITIVE ATTITUDE”

THE WAY TO SUCCESS.

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, and 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.

WEAK, OR OTHERS ARE WEAK.

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.

THOUGHTS

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

BELIEVE

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

CHEERFUL

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.

WORLD

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

GOD WILL BE IN THEM:

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

THE POWERS:

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.

MY GUIDE:

GOD of truth, be Thou alone my guide…

FAITH AND LIFE:

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

BORN AGAIN:

YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.

OUR DUTY:

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.

FAITH:

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.

MY NATURE:

MY nature is love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for love’s sake. I can not trade in love.

TRUTH:

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

ONENESS:

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

RELIGION:

Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

BE AND MAKE:

Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a GOd. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. "Be and Make." Let this be our motto.

LOVE’ UNSELFISHLY FOR LOVE’S SAKE:

IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love’s sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward - ’love’ unselfishly for love’s sake.

WORSHIP:

TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.

IMMORTALITY:

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

MONEY:

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.

MENTAL ATTITUDE:

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world, that