In time, I hope to bring them all out, but at present I find I have a mission in this country also. All history of Indian life is the struggle for the realisation of the ideal of the Vedanta through good or bad fortune. May his quotes inspire you to believe in yourself so that you may live your dreams.. 1. “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra 782 Copy quote Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe. Then and then alone you are a Hindu when you will be ready to bear everything for them, like the great example I have quoted at the beginning of this lecture, of your great Guru Govind Singh. Even for a drunkard, there are some Mantras-even for a man going to a prostitute! It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism. The writer also claims that Swami Vivekananda discarded the term 'Hindu' repeatedly. Why do not the English forget their warlike habits and give up fighting and bloodshed, and sit calm and quiet concentrating their whole energy on making religion the sole aim of their life? It may be that in the attempt the Hindu faith will lose much of its individuality. Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism. This is not warranted by science. Why? And even this cannot be laid at the door of his religion any more than the burning of witches can be laid at the door of Christianity. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. Thou brave one, be bold, take courage, be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, “I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother.” Say, “The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother.” Thou, too, clad with but a rag round thy loins proudly proclaim at the top of thy voice: “The Indian is my brother, the Indian is my life, India’s gods and goddesses are my God. Aum once all the days, Be happy always. Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends, Opening Welcome Address at the World Parliament of Religions, delivered 11 September 1893, Swami Vivekananda (2015). By uniting the materialism of the West with the spiritualism of the East I believe much can be accomplished. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion. We are Hindus. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. With clear-sighted, devoted, and altogether unselfish workers like you in our midst, the future of the Hindu nation cannot but be bright and hopeful. “Complete Works”, Swami Vivekananda (2015). All sorts of grotesque and unnatural figures. If the Hindu fanatic burns himself on the pyre, he never lights the fire of Inquisition. That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Free Daily Quotes. We never indulge in missionary work. I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. ( Log Out / Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta, hailed from an aristocratic Bengali Kayastha family. Don’t malign each other. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.