WORLD'S FIRST RELIGIOUS PARLIAMENT

EVERY MOMENT IS A NEW CHANCE

Every moment is a new chance
 


 - Swami Vivekananda
Reincarnation
(Delivered in Memphis on January 19, 1894: Reported in Appeal-Avalanche)

YOU HAVE IN YOU A THOUSAND TIME MORE THAN IS IN ALL THE BOOKS.

You have in you a thousand times more than is in all the books. Never lose faith in yourself, you can do anything in this universe. Never weaken, all power is yours.

- Swami Vivekanananda

INDIA WILL BE RAISED

Interesting Incidents from the Life of Swami Vivekananda – Part 1

Swamiji was not an ordinary person right from his childhood. Almost his whole life, starting from his childhood till his last day on earth, was full of many interesting and inspirational incidents, which not only teach us certain important lessons about life, but also inspire us. Here, I am presenting a series of unusual and interesting experiences of Swami Vivekananda and incidents from his life in his own words. I hope the readers will admire the series and learn from it.

Swamiji used to have a certain peculiar kind of experience when he went to sleep. Given under is the account in Swamiji’s own words:

Swami Vivekananda in Meditation

 

I used to see all my life a wonderful point of light between my eyebrows, as soon as I shut my eyes in order to go to sleep, and I used to observe attentively its various changes. So that it might be convenient to see it, I used to lie on my bed in the way people bow down touching the ground with their foreheads. The extraordinary point keep changing its colours and increasing in size, became gradually converted into the form of a ball, and bursting at last, covered my body from head to foot with white liquid light. As soon as that happened, I lost consciousness and fell asleep. I believed that all people went to sleep that way. I was long under that impression. When I grew up and began to practise meditation, that point of light used to come before me as soon as I closed my eyes, and then I concentrated my mind on it. In those days I daily practised meditation with a few friends according to the instructions of Maharishi Devendranath. We talked among ourselves about the nature of visions and experiences that each of us had. At that time I came to know from what they said that they never had the vision of such a light and that none of them went to sleep in that way.

OUR COUNTER - QUESTION HAS BEEN!!??

Are we then to go back to the days of the primitive caveman, the stone age! Our counter-question has been: Is the 24-hour cyber society created in the sci-tech era more natural, organic and humane than the bygone ages? Let us listen attentively to these philosophical truths of Swami Vivekananda uttered in London during the fall of 1896:

 

" As we increase our power to be happy, we also increase our power to suffer; and sometimes I am inclined to think that if we increase our power to become happy in arithmetical progression, we shall increase, on the other hand, our power to become miserable in geometrical progression. We who are progressing know that the more we progress, the more avenues are opened to pain as well as pleasure. And this is Maya.

- Swami Vivekananda
[ Swami Vivekananda - Leader of Sacred Nationhood ]

I SHALL MEDIATE ON THE HEART OF A LION. THAT GIVES STRENGTH.

Swamiji's first night at Camp Taylor [ Northern California ], May 2, 1900. I close my eyes and see him standing there in the soft blackness with sparks from the blazing log fire... flying through it and a day-old moon above. He was weary after a long lecture season, but relaxed and happy to be there. " We end life in the forest, " he said, " as we begin it, but with a world of experience between the two states." Later after a short talk, when we were about to have the usual mediation, he said: "You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall mediate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength." The bliss and power and peace of the meditation that followed could never be described.

- Swami Vivekananda
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