Vivekananda changed my outlook towards life
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To commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, we are trying to gather views and experiences of different people inspired by Swami Vivekananda. For this purpose we have hosted this website where people of varied backgrounds across the globe, would be free to write about their impressions regarding influences of Swami Vivekananda in their life or in the life of people and friends known to them. We anticipate that sharing of these experiences would highlight ideas of Swami Vivekananda relevant in today's world, and inspire people across the globe to achieve those ideas.
We request you to share your personal views on life and messages of Swami Vivekananda. You can also share your experiences if you have put any of his messages into action in no matter how small or large a measure.
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Tributes to Swami Vivekananda
 | Swami Vivekanada's message is unique and the world needs it. He says "My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to be realized". (Source) - Abdul Kalam, Former President of India
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Instead of succumbing to division, you have shown that the strength of India - the very idea of India - is its embrace of all colors, all castes, all creeds. It's the diversity represented in this chamber today. It's the richness of faiths celebrated by a visitor to my hometown of Chicago more than a century ago - the renowned Swami Vivekananda. (Source) - Barack Obama, President of USA |
 | I know not who would make a more fitting general of such a campaign than Vivekananda. (Source) - Jamshedji N Tata
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 | I would like to end with words of Swami Vivekananda: "Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. 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." (Source) - Azim H. Premji, Wipro
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 | He came across a book of Swami Vivekananda and immediately bought it. He was inspired by Vivekananda's photograph on the cover. As he started reading the book, he found answers to all his questions, he says. The book revealed to him that the ultimate motive of human life should be service to humanity. Striving for the betterment of common people is equivalent to offering a prayer to the God, he realized. (Source) - From Anna Hazare's biography |
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| Residence | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Marketing Manager at Cognizant |
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Vivekananda changed my outlook towards life
Vivekananda believes in human excellence
Vivekananda is not just a spiritual person, he does not lay faith just on God but on human excellence. He used his own intelligence, his own thoughts and thats what really captivated me. Even I am a person who thinks on my own field rather than putting it on something else. Using the religion as a guideline, but thinking yourself.
Vivekananda's books talk about going to gym and building up your body
Whenever I get time I read Swami Vivekananda. I have full CDs of his Complete Works. I have gone through most of it and its really amazing. I like one book and that is Vivekananda's Inspiration to the Youth which is really nice because it talks about not only spirituality but also building up your body and sending children to the football ground. Its so modern which was developed 150 years ago, that is amazing part of it. He has written a small book on concentration which I find very useful.
His teachings are as much relevant today as would have been in Julius Caesar days
Swami Vivekananda is main among the few people who have thought around 150 years ago and their teachings are still relevant. Vivekananda talks about human excellence, which is not time bound. He talks about neerves of steel, he talks about courage. He talks about self discipline, which is important even from the Julius Caesar days to present Sonia Gandhi age to even in future. Its the fundamental truth and that is the reason why a person like Gandhi, why a person like Luther King, why a person like Obama, all three of them from different cultures, different civilizations are all interested in one message of Swami Vivekananda.
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