The Unexplored Life Of Swami Vivekananda

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, 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: Swami Vivekananda

• The Indian philosopher and social reformer, Swami Vivekananda or Narendra Nath Dutt or nicknamed Vireshwar was born on 12^th January 1863 in Shimla Pally, Calcutta, West Bengal to Vishwanath Dutta and Bhauvanswari Devi. Even when he was young, he questioned the validity of superstitious customs and discrimination based on caste and religion.

• Swami Vivekanandawould ask leaders of Brahmo Samaj whether they have seen god. He never got a satisfying answer. It was during this time the professor Hasties of Scottish church college told him aboutRamakrishna of Dakshineshwar. Narendra met ramkrishna for the first time in November 1881. He asked Ramakrishna the same old question, whether he had seen God. The instantaneous answer from Ramakrishna was, “ yes, I have seen god, just as I see you here, only in a more clear sense”. Narendra was astounded and puzzled. He could feel the man’s word were honest and uttered from depths of experience. This was the commencement of Narendra's journey with Ramakrishna.

• He was a great musician also- once one of his friend made a visit to his house and requested him to sing a song. He immediately picked up his tanpura and said to his friend “accompany me on the table”. The friend said I do not know how to play on the table . I only know to give a beat on the table in school. How can I accompany you on tabla.Narendra than himself demonstrated the beatsof the sound and told his friend, “ Watch carefully, it is not difficult you will surely be able to play.” He explained the rhythm. After an attempt or two the firend was able to accompany him on the Tabla. Then narendra started singing with gay abandon and made everyone spellbound by his singing.

From my boyhood Iwaas a dare-devil sort of fellow. otherwise, di you think I could make a tour round the world without a single copper in my pocket? - Swami Vivekananda

• On his second journey to west swami viveknand had said “Last time they saw a warrior , this time I want to show them a Brahmin”. Swami Vivekananda was born in a Kayastha family – though he regarded himself as a kshatriya-and he took another birth after accepting Ramkrishna paramahansa as his guru.In this way there was a amalgam of the qualities of a kshatriya and Brahmin in his personality. When he visited Chicago for the first time he presented himself as a Kshatriya warrior but this time he did not have to enter into a debate to make the Europeans realise that the cultural attack of imperialism on India had been defeated in a calm and serene manner of a Satvik Brahman .

• During one of the journeys, in the Himalayas, he lived among the Tibetans, who practice polyandry. He was the guest of a family of six brothers, who shared the same wife and, in his neophytic zeal, he tried to show them the immorality of polyandry. But it was they who were scandalized by his views. ‘ what selfishness they said. To wish to keep one woman all to oneself…'The above incident taught him a lesson about the relativity of virtue; it taught him that moral values continue to change with the change of lands and times.

• He was 39 when he passed into Mahasmadhi on July 4, 1902, at Belur Math near Kolkata.Swami Vivekanand’s writing inspired a whole new generation of freedom fighters. Most prominent were Subash Chandra Bose, Aurobindo, and countless others . After many years of Vivekanand's death, Rabindranath Tagore had said “If you want to know India, study Vivekananda.In him everything is positive and nothing negative.” Swami Vivekananda's writings need no introduction from anybody . They make their own irresistible appeal. His influence abroad can be seen in t Max Wueller and Romain Rolland.

• He was 39 when he passed into Mahasmadhi on July 4, 1902, at Belur Math near Kolkata.Swami Vivekanand’s writing inspired a whole new generation of freedom fighters. Most prominent were Subash Chandra Bose, Aurobindo, and countless others . After many years of Vivekanand's death, Rabindranath Tagore had said “If you want to know India, study Vivekananda.In him everything is positive and nothing negative.” Swami Vivekananda's writings need no introduction from anybody . They make their own irresistible appeal. His influence abroad can be seen in t Max Wueller and Romain Rolland.

Thus Swami Vivekananda will continue to symbolize the ideas of Vedantic ways of life with which India has enlightened the west since ages. He will be a continuous source of inspiration to the youth of this beloved country.