"Arise! Awake! And stop not till the goal is reached", "Ye divinities on earth-sinners? It is a sin to call man so", "He is an atheist who does not believe in himself", "You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita", "Face the brutes", "Onward, for ever!" "Daridro Devo Bhava. Murkha Devo Bhava", "Go to hell yourself to buy salvation for others". These are startling utterances. They shake you out of complacency. They energize you, fill you with faith and power, and drive you into action. Lakhs of people have found faith, hope and strength restored to their souls, and thousands of people have been inspired to dedicate their lives to the service of the poor and the sick, by such powerful exhortations of Swami Vivekananda.
The latter half of the nineteenth century marked one of the great watersheds in human history, Medieval beliefs, values and ideals were losing ground, and the twentieth century with its spectacular achievements in science and technology, and radical socio-political changes, was about to be born. The world was in need of an integral view of universal life capable of bringing about an all-round reconciliation of the conflicting ideas and ideals of the modern age, and also capable of fulfilling the aspirations of the collective soul of humanity newly emancipated from centuries of superstitions and dogmatism. It was at this critical juncture that Swami Vivekananda appeared on the world scene-a spiritual colossus with his feet planted on India and the West, straddling civilizations and unifying millenniums in the sweep of his vision, with his heart open to the whole humanity.
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Vedas (1309)
Upanishads (600)
Puranas (829)
Ramayana (895)
Mahabharata (329)
Dharmasastras (162)
Goddess (473)
Bhakti (243)
Saints (1276)
Gods (1286)
Shiva (330)
Journal (132)
Fiction (44)
Vedanta (321)
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