shekhar_nehra
January 17th, 2003, 11:41 PM
Noble Thoughts
By : Swami Vivekananda
1. "The road to the GOOD is the roughest and steepest in the Universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder that so many fall. CHARACTER has to be established through a thousand stumbles."
2."All power is within you, you can do anything and everything.Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak... You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of anyone. All power is there.Stand up and express the DIVINITY within you.ARISE, AWAKE, SLEEP no more.Within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and miseries.Believe in this and that power will be manifested."
3."All expansion is LIFE, all contraction is death.All LOVE is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life.He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying.Therefore, love for love's sake, because it is only law of life, just as you breath to live."
4."Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs rot there, undigested all your life. We must have LIFE-BUILDING, MAN-MAKING, CHARACTER-MAKING, assimilation of ideas. If you have ASSIMILATED five ideas and made them your LIFE and CHARACTER, you have more education than any man who
has got byheart a whole library."
5."Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, LEARN TO OBEY.The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master."
6."Each work has to pass through these stages- RIDICULE, OPPOSITION, and then ACCEPTANCE. Each man who thinks ahead of his time is sure to be misunderstood. So opposition and persecution are welcome, only I have to be STEADY and PURE and must have immense FAITH IN GOD, and all these will vanish."
Recently there were celebrations related to the Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda on 13th Jan.It is true that the message of Swami Vivekanada has influenced, inspired and transformed hundreds of lives. Swamiji was one of the Greatest souls, he was a champion of humanitarism and service to God through service to others .
I just wanted share to some of his noble thoughts with my Jaat Brothers.
More abt Swamiji can be found at http://www.ramakrishna.org and http://www.itihaas.com
By : Swami Vivekananda
1. "The road to the GOOD is the roughest and steepest in the Universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder that so many fall. CHARACTER has to be established through a thousand stumbles."
2."All power is within you, you can do anything and everything.Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak... You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of anyone. All power is there.Stand up and express the DIVINITY within you.ARISE, AWAKE, SLEEP no more.Within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and miseries.Believe in this and that power will be manifested."
3."All expansion is LIFE, all contraction is death.All LOVE is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life.He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying.Therefore, love for love's sake, because it is only law of life, just as you breath to live."
4."Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs rot there, undigested all your life. We must have LIFE-BUILDING, MAN-MAKING, CHARACTER-MAKING, assimilation of ideas. If you have ASSIMILATED five ideas and made them your LIFE and CHARACTER, you have more education than any man who
has got byheart a whole library."
5."Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, LEARN TO OBEY.The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master."
6."Each work has to pass through these stages- RIDICULE, OPPOSITION, and then ACCEPTANCE. Each man who thinks ahead of his time is sure to be misunderstood. So opposition and persecution are welcome, only I have to be STEADY and PURE and must have immense FAITH IN GOD, and all these will vanish."
Recently there were celebrations related to the Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda on 13th Jan.It is true that the message of Swami Vivekanada has influenced, inspired and transformed hundreds of lives. Swamiji was one of the Greatest souls, he was a champion of humanitarism and service to God through service to others .
I just wanted share to some of his noble thoughts with my Jaat Brothers.
More abt Swamiji can be found at http://www.ramakrishna.org and http://www.itihaas.com