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On January 12, 1863, Swami Vivekananda was born to Viswanath Dutta and Bhuvaneshwari Devi in Kolkata. He was named Narendra Nath Dutta. From his childhood, Narendra Nath showed extraordinary thinking, brilliance, and great courage and never accepted anything to be correct unless he found out the facts by himself.

It was under the guidance of his Guru Ramakrishna Paramahamsa that his energy was channelized towards religious beliefs, Vedas, Vedanta, and Indian Philosophy. Gradually Narendra Nath started taking interest in Vedas and Sanskrit and within a short period of time, he developed mastery over the areas. After the death of his Guru Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, he started Bharat Parikrama as a wandering monk. He traveled all the direction of India and made people enlightened with his knowledge. He made everybody understand Vedas in a simple way. The meaning of all the Vedas became clear even to a layman as the wandering monk cited the examples from practical application.

It was Maharaja of Khetri who confirmed him the title of Vivekananda. People were highly moved by his ideas, intellect, and knowledge in Vedanta.
Swamiji became restless and to find a solution to such problems, he mediated in the mid-sea rock away from Kanyakumari for three days and three nights that was on December 25, 26, and 27, 1892. He hit upon a plan to spread the message of India to the world and to raise the sufferings millions of his country to their past glory. The only thing that Swamiji wanted was to rejuvenate India and to put mother India in her earlier throne of Glory.

By that time news spread that the world parliament of religion was all set to be held in America and people of India mainly South Indians found Swami Vivekananda to be the correct representative for Hinduism. Even though Swamiji declined at first but later on he had to accept the people’s request. Religion when he pronounced the idea “We believe not only in universal tolerance but we accept all the religions to be true”, the vision for next-generation was laid.

Swamiji stayed in the west for long years both in America and the UK where Swamiji developed thousand of disciples who were eager to know Vedanta from him. Swamiji who went from India empty-handed was able to establish Vedanta Society in the USA, with a large number of followers.
In 1897 Swamiji returned to India. He had to arise and awake a Nation which ‘felt like a slave, under the shadow of the British and the west.’
In the year 1985, the Indian Government declared 12 January as National Youth Day.

If we summarized Swami Vivekananda’s teaching, philosophy and work we find that-
Swami Vivekananda was a True Indian from the core of his heart; he was above all sorts of social divisions like caste, community, language or religion. He considered himself only as Indian and made others also feel proud of themselves as Indian.

That time itself Swamiji stressed for Women Education and later on, this dream was fulfilled by his disciple sister Nivedita, who opened a school for girls in Kolkata. Swami Vivekananda said, “Women must be put in a position to solve their own problems in their own way. No one can or ought to do this for them”.

Swami Vivekananda advocated that the development of a country rests in the development of Science. So, he put forward his opinion to Jamshedji Tata regarding scientific research while they were on a voyage from Japan to Chicago. Swamiji wanted to combine the scientific and technological achievement of the west with the asceticism and humanism of India. Jamshedji liked his proposal and accordingly, The Indian Institute of Sciences came into existence.

He also challenged the worst side of the Hindu religion and said “Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak man” and also made it clear that instead of spending the whole day in worshipping God, people need to serve the poor, needy and downtrodden. Serving men is serving God. Worshipping God if done for 10 minutes to one hour is sufficient to keep the rituals intact.

Swami Vivekananda’s teachings and Philosophy is very much relevant today. A number of problems that the nation is facing today can be solved through his teachings. Swamiji’s life and speeches are capable enough to develop in anybody the patriotic feelings and in return, the person is bound to contribute to nation-building.

Let me conclude with one of his quotations “If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon the masses of ignorance, it is the word Fearlessness.”

Swami Vivekananda Thoughts On National Youth Day will be shown below :

• Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

• If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

• All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

• Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, the dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

• The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

• You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

• All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

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