Swamy Vivekananda

Vivekananda (Spiritual Genius)
Name : Swami Vivekananda.
Birth Name : Narendranath Dutta.
Born : January12, 1863.
Place : Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India.
Eternally Rested : July 4, 1902(aged 39).
Nationality : Indian.
Parents : Vishwanath Dutta, Bhuvaneswari Devi.
Guru : Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
Founder : Ramakrishna Math, Ramakrishna Mission.

Acheivements :
He is the founder of Ramakrishna Mission for the service of the poor.
Vivekananda is considered to be a major force in the revival of Hinduism in modern India.
He is best known for his inspiring speech beginning with "sisters and brothers of America", through which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions at Chicago in 1893. To these words he got a standing ovation from a crowd of seven thousand, which lasted for two minutes.
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was the foremost disciple of Ramakrishna and a world spokesperson for Vedanta.
Swami Vivekananda was the first Indian to be invited to accept the chair of Oriental Philosophy at the Harvard University.

What Our Leaders say about Swamy Vivekananda :
"Vivekananda saved Hinduism, saved India." Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
"Vivekananda is the maker of modern India." Subhas Chandra Bose
"Vivekananda's influence increased his love for his country a thousandfold." Mahatma Gandhi
"Vivekananda was yet modern in his approach to life’s problems, and was a kind of bridge between the past of India and her present." Jawaharlal Nehru

Famous Quotes Of Swami Vivekanada :
“Arise! Awake! And stop not till the goal is reached.”
"Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man."
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
“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.”
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on 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.”
“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”
“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.”
“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”
“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
“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.”
“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”
“GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.”
“As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.”

His Principles & their influence :
Swami Vivekananda is regarded as one of India's foremost nation-builders. His teachings influenced the thinking of other national leaders and philosophers, like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, Aurobindo Ghosh, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
Played a major role in spiritual enlightenment of Indian masses; Spread Vedanta philosophy in the West.
His lectures, writings, letters, and poems are published as The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda.
He felt it was best to teach universal principles rather than personalities.

National Youth Day in India is held on his birthday, January 12, to commemorate him.