Dhanaraj M

Happy Youth Day

Narendranath (Vivekananda) was born on 12th Jan, 1863. Indian youth is celebrating Swami Vivekananda's birth day as National Youth Day.

Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna: When he was young, he met prominent religious leaders, but could not get a convincing answer from them to his question about the existence of God. This came about, in 1881, the historic meeting of these two great souls, the prophet of modern India and the carrier of his message. He asked Sir Ramakrishna, "have you seen God". He answered, "yes, I have seen him just as I see you here, only more intensely". At last here was one who could assure him from his own experence that God existed. After Sri Ramakrishna passed away, he became the leader for disciples. In his remaining life, he traveled to many countries, in order to spread his master's message.

Messages:

• He is an atheist who does not believe in himself
• Education by which the character is formed, strength of mind is increased
• Karmayoga means, even at the point of the death to help anyone, without asking questions. Be cheated millions of times and never ask a question
• Never mind these failures, these little backslidings, hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail thousand times, make an attempt once more

The ideal of man is to see God in everything

• It is meditation that brings us nearer to truth than anything else
• Arise, Awake, and Stop not till the goal is reached
  

Posted at 08:35AM Jan 12, 2007 by dhanarajm in Personal  |  Comments[2]