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Courtesy Sanjeeb Maharaj - Swami Dheyananda of Ramakrishna Mission Students' Home Belgharia  Excerpt from the lecture Practical Vedanta -Part I V delivered by Swami Vivekananda in London My idea is to show that the highest ideal of morality and unselfishness goes hand in hand with the highest metaphysical conception, and that you need not lower your conception to get ethics and morality, but, on the other hand, to reach a real basis of morality and ethics you must have the highest philosophical and scientific conceptions. Human knowledge is not antagonistic to human well-being. On the contrary, it is knowledge alone that will save us in every department of life -- in knowledge is worship. The more we know the better for us. The Vedantist says, the cause of all that is apparently evil is the limitation of the unlimited. The love which gets limited into little channels and seems to be evil eventually comes out at the other end and manifests itself as God. The Vedanta also sa...

Courtesy Sanjeeb Maharaj - Swami Dheyananda of Ramakrishna Mission Students' Home Belgharia Excerpt from the lecture Practical Vedanta - Part I V delivered by Swami Vivekananda in London I would like to see moral men like Gautama Buddha, who did not believe in a Personal God or a personal soul, never asked about them, but was a perfect agnostic, and yet was ready to lay down his life for anyone, and worked all his life for the good of all, and thought only of the good of all. Well has it been said by his biographer, in describing his birth, that he was born for the good of the many, as a blessing to the many. He did not go to the forest to meditate for his own salvation; he felt that the world was burning, and that he must find a way out. "Why is there so much misery in the world?" -- was the one question that dominated his whole life. Do you think we are so moral as the Buddha? The more selfish a man, the more immoral he is. And so also with the race. That rac...

Shudra Jagaran was Swami Vivekanananda's dream. He advised the elites to retire and give way to shudras who would be the next world force to reckon with. He predicated that Indians would rise from every nook and corner of villages and slums, would aspire after the best in the world and then the world would begin to take serious notice of India which they have so far mocked and derided as a country of illiterate and obnoxious casteist Hindus. They are right to do so. For this is how India's elite had painted India for generations, esp. in the last twenty years or so. The so called liberals and the mainstream media had gone overboard in painting India as a country of either dead woods who understand nothing or hardened fundamentalists who would fall for something which they derisively termed as "Hindutva". The rest, the gang of elites, the most intelligent, most liberal and so on, are secular, whatever that word means.  This is however not a unique situation in In...

Courtesy Sanjeeb Maharaj - Swami Dheyananda of Ramakrishna Mission Students' Home Belgharia Excerpt from the lecture   Practical Vedanta - Part I V delivered by Swami Vivekananda in London According to dualistic theory, we have a body, of course, and behind the body there is what they call a fine body. This fine body is also made of matter, only very fine. It is the receptacle of all our Karma, of all our actions and impressions, which are ready to spring up into visible forms.   Every thought that we think, every deed that we do, after a certain time becomes fine, goes into seed form, so to speak, and lives in the fine body in a potential form, and after a time it emerges again and bears its results. These results condition the life of man. Thus he moulds his own life.   Man is not bound by any other laws excepting those which he makes for himself. Our thoughts, our words and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw round ourselves, for good or for evil. Onc...

Courtesy Sanjib Maharaj - Swami Dheyananda of RKM Students' Home Belgharia “We are in reality that Infinite Being, and our personalities represent so many channels through which this Infinite Reality is manifesting Itself; and the whole mass of changes which we call evolution is brought about by the soul trying to manifest more and more of its infinite energy… Each one of us has come out of one protoplasmic cell, and all the powers we possess were coiled up there.   You cannot say they came from food; for if you heap up food mountains high, what power comes out of it?  The energy was there, potentially no doubt, but still there. So is infinite power in the soul of man, whether he knows it or not. Its manifestation is only a question of being conscious of it.    Slowly this infinite giant is, as it were, waking up, becoming conscious of his power, and arousing himself; and with his growing consciousness, more and more of his bonds are breaking, chains are bursting...

Courtesy Sanjib Maharaj - Swami Dheyananda of RK Mission Students' Home “I shall call you religious from the day you begin to see God in men and women… Whatever comes to you is but the Lord, the Eternal, the Blessed One, appearing to us in various forms, as our father, and mother, and friend, and child -- they are our own soul playing with us... He is in everything. He is everything. Every man and woman is the palpable, blissful, living God… It is better that we know we are God and give up this fool's search after Him; and knowing that we are God we become happy and contented… Truth is within us, we have It as our birthright, and we have only to manifest It, and make It tangible.”    – Swami Vivekananda Excerpt from the lecture  Practical Vedanta - Part II  delivered by Swami Vivekananda at London "He whom you are worshipping as unknown and are seeking for, throughout the universe, has been with you all the time. You are living through Him, and He is the Et...

Courtesy Sanjib Maharaj - Swami Dheyananda of RK Mission Student's Home Belgharia “Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being? ... The only God to worship is the human soul in the human body… The moment I have realised God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him -- that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”    – Swami Vivekananda Excerpt from the lecture  Practical Vedanta - Part II  delivered by Swami Vivekananda at London The theme of the Vedanta is to see the Lord in everything, to see things in their real nature, not as they appear to be.  Then another lesson is taught in the Upanishads: "He who shines through the eyes is Brahman; He is the Beautiful One, He is the Shining One. He shines in all these worlds."  A certain peculiar light,  a commentator says,  which c...

courtesy Sanjib Maharaj  - Swami Dheyananda of Belgharia RK Mission Students' Home “There is only one life and one world, and this one life and one world is appearing to us as manifold. This manifoldness is like a dream… a time comes to the sage when the whole thing vanishes, and this world appears as God Himself, and his own soul as God… All this manifoldness is the manifestation of that One.”   – Swami Vivekananda    Excerpt from the lecture  Practical Vedanta - Part I  delivered by Swami Vivekananda at London What is there to be taught more in religion than the oneness of the universe and faith in one's self?  All the works of mankind for thousands of years past have been towards this one goal, and mankind is yet working it out. It is your turn now and you already know the truth. For it has been taught on all sides. Not only philosophy and psychology, but materialistic sciences have declared it. Where is the scientific man today who fears ...