Vivekananda Calls on You

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Swami Vivekananda, loved and revered in east and west alike as the

rejuvenator of mankind through the eternal truths of Hinduism, roused the

Hindu Nation from its deep slumber of centuries and gave it a man making and

nation building faith and resolve.

His message inspired a generation of leaders and people of our country to

give their best. Commented Sri C Rajagopalachari: "Swami Vivekananda saved

Hinduism and saved India". "But for him we would have lost our religion and

would not have gained our freedom. We therefore owe everything to Swami

Vivekananda. May his faith, his courage and his wisdom inspire us so that we

may keep save the treasure received from him."

 

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*SWAMIJI SPEAKS:*

 

I have a message to give, let me give it to the people who appreciate it who

will work it out. Yes! The older I grow the more everything seems to me to

lie in manliness. This is my new gospel. It is a man making religion that we

want. It is man making theories that we want. It is the man making education

all around that we want. What our country now wants a muscles of iron and

nerves of steel, gigantic will which nothing can resist.

A hundred thousand men and women fired with the zeal of holiness. Fortified

with eternal faith in the Lord and nerved to lion's courage by their

sympathy for the poor and the fallen and the downtrodden, will go over the

length and breadth of the land, preaching the gospel of salvation, the

gospel of help, the gospel of social raising up- the gospel of equality.

The fate of the nation depends upon the condition of the masses. Can you

raise them ? Can you give them back their lost individuality without making

them lose their innate spiritual nature? Can you become westernised in your

spirit of equality. freedom, working energy, and at the same time a Hindu to

the very backbone in religious culture and instincts? This has to be done

and we will do it. A nation in India must be a union of those whose hearts

beat to the same spiritual tune.

But mark you, if you give up that spirituality, leaving it aside to go after

the materialised civilization of the West. The result will be that in three

generations you will be broken. The foundation upon which the national

edifice has been built will be undermined and the result will be

annihilation all around. The first work that demands our attention is , that

the most wonderful truths contained in our Upanishads, in our scriptures, in

our Puranas- must be brought out from the books. The nations of the West are

coming to us for spiritual help. A great moral obligation rests on the sons

of India to fully equip themselves for the work of enlightening the world of

the problems of human existence.

In religion lies the vitality of India and so long as the Hindu race does

not forget the inheritance of their forefathers there is no power on earth

to destroy them. `Ay, when a man has begun to hate himself then the last

blow has come. When he has begun to be ashamed of his ancestors the end has

come. Here am I proud to call myself a Hindu.

 

*HIS WARNING:*

 

Swami Vivekananda warned us against the disastrous consequence of making

politics as a means of our national salvation. His prophetic eyes foresaw

that pursuit of state power would in time become a pursuit of personal

power, which ambitious politicians would place above the nation. Today we

are facing a dire fate in which politics is corrupting our society at all

levels because we did not listen to the great voice warning us against a

political approach to our national problems. Recent example is Punjab.

Ever since Independence ,the cumulative effect of the practice of secularism

has only been the growth of corruption and degeneration of moral standards

on all sides.

It is unfortunate that we are today what Vivekananda wanted us not to be - a

nation led by a pack of politicians who can play with the destiny of a whole

people for money and for power.-

Extracts from book: VIVEKANANDA - HIS GOSPEL OF MAN- MAKING, WITH A GARLAND

OF TRIBUTES, AND A CHRONICLE OF HIS LIFE AND TIMES WITH PICTURES

 

 

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