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My ideal & Inspiration is Swami Vivekananda, - Narendra Modi You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains. He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage. There is hope for all. None can die; none can be degraded forever. Life is but a playground, however gross the play may be. However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Atman is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite. Anything that is secret and mysterious in these systems of yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it. A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built. If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He, and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free for ever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed. Let positive, strong, helpful thought enter into their brains from childhood. Lay yourself open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones. Onward, my brave boys money or no money men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible. First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. Be and make. Let this be our motto. Say not man is a sinner. Tell him that he is a God. Even if there were a devil, it would be our duty to remember God always, and not the devil. We want Shraddh, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. We are the tman, deathless and free; pure, pure by nature. Can we ever commit any sin? Impossible! such a faith is needed. Such a faith makes men of us, makes gods of us. It is by losing this idea of Shraddha that the country has gone to ruin. Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect Never allow
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We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so and so and Mr. so and so. But all nature is giving this delusion the lie every moment. I am not that little man or little woman cut off from all else; I am the one universal existence. The soul in its own majesty is rising up every moment and declaring its own intrinsic Divinity. But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There I want to work out this idea about which I have spoken to you today. There are an Englishman and an Englishwoman in charge of the place. The purpose is to train seekers of truth and to bring up children without fear and without superstition. They shall not hear about Christs and Buddhas and Shivas and Vishnus none of these. They shall learn, from the start, to stand upon their own feet. They shall learn from their childhood that God is the spirit and should be worshipped in spirit and in truth. Everyone must be looked upon as spirit. That is the ideal. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end. Sayings and Utterances. Complete Works, 5. 418. Women will work out their destiniesmuch better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women. Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was I was young Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself that eternal power is lodged in every soul and you will revive the whole of India. Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your Atman is the support of the universewhose support do you stand in need of? This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with ones body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet! Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure, if you look back upon your lives, you will find that you were always trying to get help from others, which never came. All the help that has come was from within yourselves. We must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God. Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause. The world sympathizes only with strong and powerful. Let people say whatever they like, quick to your own conviction, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, Have faith in this fellow or that fellow, but I say, Have faith in yourself first, thats the way. If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes. You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: Thao art That, Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure, if you look back upon your lives, you will find that you were always trying to get help from others, which never came. All the help that has come was from within yourselves. Worship of society and popular opinions is idolatry. The soul has no sex, no country, no place, no time. Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into
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Do not be afraid of a small beginning, great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The brutal mania for leading has sunk many a great ship in the waters of life. Take care especially of that, i.e. Be unselfish even unto death, and work. Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph. The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game. Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathizing. If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world. Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass . . . The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things. We must travel, we must go to foreign parts. We must see how the engine of society works in other countries, and keep free and open communication with what is going on in the minds of other nations, if we really want to be a nation again. If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological gods, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you. Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous. The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. Do not say we are weak; we can do anything and everything. What can we not do? Everything can be done by us; we all have the same glorious soul, let us believe in it. None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death. To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance. If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject as poison. We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men. Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go;
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For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor. I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me. I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truths to cry, Hold! and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand. All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believethat you are weak. . . . Stand upand express the Divinity within you. Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject as poison. We have wept enough.No more weeping,but stand on feet and be men. Do not say, You are bad; say only, You are good, but be better! Bold has been my message to the people of the west,bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman. Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses,because every excess will be followed by a reaction. Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders. Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness. Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear. Tell this to everybody-Have no fear. Strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery; weakness is death. God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. To serves Jiva, serves God indeed. The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the great cause of miseryi n the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment. Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go. Godspeed to you.Letter to Dr. Nanjunda Rao. Written from USA on November 30, 1894. Complete Works, 6.281. Take courage and work on. Patience and steady workthis is the only way. Go on. Rememberpatience and purity and courage and steady work. So long as you are true and pure, you will never fail. Mother will never leave you. All blessings will be on you. My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions. All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believethat you are weak. . . . Stand upand express the Divinity within you. Strength is Life, Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, Life eternal, immortal; Weakness is constant strain and misery. Weakness is Death. What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your allpowerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the Self alone that predominates, and not matter. Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once, but cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds. People will call us both good and bad. But we shall have to work like lions keeping the ideal before us.
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Budhaditya Bhattacharyya Its quite sad that very few people remember swami vivekanand in today's india. Inspiring to see you follow his footsteps. All the best!
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June 17, 2013 at 10:13pm
Thamban Nair Narendra Modiji , Narendra(Swami Vivekananda) is not just ideal and inspiration for u., U r the re-incarnation of the old Narendra. Hail that name, Hail ur fame.
June 26, 2013 at 7:06am
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Thamban Nair Abhi people in lakhs and lakhs say NaMo. After few months everyone will say Namo Namaha!!
June 26, 2013 at 7:09am
Thamban Nair He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.
June 26, 2013 at 7:15am 1
Raju Bannarapurayil Bannara Purayil The 90% of the news media are paid one.Some black hand is behind the fund raising and paying
July 22, 2013 at 9:50am
Anita Rego Where is the yes we can quote. Could not find it
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