IN EVERY ATTEMPT

" In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes "

- Swami Vivekananda 
25th September, 1894 NEW YORK
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XLVII Brother disciples

OUR MISERY COMES, NOT FROM WORK

" Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something "

- Swami Vivekananda

MOTION IS THE SIGN OF LIFE

I am thoroughtly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others, and whenever such an attempt has been made under false ideas of greatness, policy, or holiness, the result has always been disastrous to the secluding one. The fact of our isolation from all the other nations of the world is the cause of our degeneration, and its only remedy is getting back into the current of the world. Motion is the sign of life.


- Swami Vivekananda
( Quoted in The discovery of India, p, 402 )

ADVANCE LIKE A HERO

Advance like a hero. Don't be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happingess and misery ? When you have got the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say - I have reached the state of fearlessness!......

- Swami Vivekananda

MAKE YOUR LIFE A MANIFESTATION OF WILL

“Make your life a manifestation of will strengthened by Renunciation". 

“Put yourself to work and you will find such tremendous power coming to you that you will feel it hard to bear. Even the least work done for others awakens the power within" 

- Swami Vivekananda
[ From Book : PROPHET AND PATHFINDER - PAGE: 292 ]

BUT IT IS A TREMENDOUS TRUTH THAT IF THERE BE REAL WORTH IN YOU

 " But it is a tremendous truth that if there be real worth in you, the more circumstances against you, the more will that inner power manifest itself "

- Swami Vivekananda

AN EFFORT TO FIND THE PLACE:

Yesterday, returned from Madurai . Swami Vivekananda visited this city on 2nd February 1897. Was keen to visit the place where Swamiji made the speech [ Reply to the address of Welcome] during his visit. Vague idea, that this place is located near Madurai Railway station, started inquiring people…...The old, the young, the middle aged, government employees, railway police, people in reservation counters…etc. Inquiry went on for an hour, but no one had the clue about the place; forget the place, every one started starring at me with astonishment [nothing new]. From these reactions of people, I decided that these people, not only do not know the place, but they also have no clue of who Swami Vivekananda was..

Intent of me asking people was to find two things; to find the location of the place, and another was to find if people know about Swami Vivekananda. But neither, they knew the place nor did they know about Swami Vivekananda [Some of them had, the slightest remember of the Name “Swami Vivekananda”]. 

After this experience of mine, I am certain of one thing, “The people, who do NOT know Swami Vivekananda, let them remain as they are [silent and muted]. BUT people who know Swami Vivekananda, if they remain muted and silent without reading him, then we are to see disastrous catastrophe happening!!! Is it not!?

Thanks
Rajhashekher BC