Its very easy to get influenced by his words, but the implementation requires lots of handwork and determination. how much ever said its the least said about this great soul- who's still alive in all our young hearts through his words. And the man who has his follower's count still counting ON..!!!
A respectful attempt in his remembrance, few quotes and teachings by swami Vivekananda.
My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few
words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it
manifest in every movement of life.
Education is the manifestation of the
perfection already in man.
We want that education by which
character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded,
and by which one can stand on one's own feet.
So long as the millions live in hunger
and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their
expense, pays not the least heed to them.
Whatever you think, that you will be.
If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong,
strong you will be.
If you have faith in all the three
hundred and thirty millions of your mythological gods, … and still have no
faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you. Have faith in yourselves,
and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.
Strength, strength it is that we want
so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and
that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes
misery.
The older I grow, the more everything
seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new Gospel.
Purity, patience, and perseverance are
the three essentials to success, and above all, love.
Religion is realization; not talk, not
doctrine, nor theories, however beautiful they may be. It is being and
becoming, not hearing or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming changed
into what it believes.
Religion is the manifestation of the
Divinity already in man.
Teach yourselves, teach everyone his
real nature, call upon the sleeping soul and see how it awakes. Power will come,
glory will come, goodness will come, purity will come, and everything that is
excellent will come when this sleeping soul is roused to self-conscious
activity.
They alone live who live for others,
the rest are more dead than alive.
This is the gist of all worship – to be
pure and to do good to others.
It is love and love alone that I
preach, and I base my teaching on the great Vedantic truth of the sameness and
omnipresence of the Soul of the Universe.
It
is not the sign of a candid and scientific mind to throw overboard anything
without proper investigation. Surface scientists, unable to explain various
extraordinary mental phenomena, strive to ignore their very existence.
What
little I know I will tell you. So far as I can reason it out I will do so, but
as to what I do not know I will simply tell you what the books say. It is wrong
to believe blindly. You must exercise your own reason and judgment; you must
practise, and see whether these things happen or not. Just as you would take up
any other science, exactly in the same manner you should take up this science
for study
Science is nothing but the finding of unity. As soon as science would reach perfect
unity, it would stop from further progress, because it would reach the goal. Thus
Chemistry could not progress farther when it would discover one element out of
which all other could be made. Physics would stop when it would be able to
fulfill its services in discovering one energy of which all others are but
manifestations..
All science is bound to come to this
conclusion in the long run. Manifestation, and not creation, is the word of
science today, and the Hindu is only glad that what he has been cherishing in
his bosom for ages is going to be taught in more forcible language, and with
further light from the latest conclusions of science. All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. 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.
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.
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand,
do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them
go their own way.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
GOD is to be worshiped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
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.
If 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.
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
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.
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.
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 man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple
of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human
being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage,
everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes
error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are
weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no
power and you cannot do this and that.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
links : YOUTUBE: the speech in Chicago.
Arthur Ashe, the
legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to
infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983.. 
