Through the eye's of Swami Vivekananda
First of all study the paragraph written under here.Sisters and Brothers of America,
It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome
which you have given us. I thank you in the name of the most ancient order of monks in the
world; I thank you in the name of the mother of religions; and I thank you in the name of
millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects. My thanks, also, to some of the
speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates from the Orient, have told you that
these men from far-off nations may well claim the honour of bearing to different lands the
idea of toleration. I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both
tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept
all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and
the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth. I am proud to tell you that we have
gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came to Southern India and
took refuge with us in the very year in which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by
Roman tyranny. I am proud to belong to the religion which has sheltered and is
still fostering remnant Zoroastrian nation. I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a
hymn which I remember to have repeated from my earliest boyhood, which is every day
repeated by millions of human beings: "As the different streams having their sources in
different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which
men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all
lead to Thee."
After reading the first line "Brothers and sister of America" You can guess that this piece is part of Vivekananda's chicago speech.
Not only this part but if you will study the whole material of this speech you will find that how much Swami Vivekananda believed in the development of India. Most of time he mentioned about ancient books like Bhagwat GEETA Our Vedas and many more books. Cause he knows the values of those books.
I have studied so many other books of swami Vivekananda. My favorite one is one in which he explains about control of mind. He was considering about controlling the thought of your own before it hits your brain. Logically you will think only what you actually want to Think. Now you all can guess how powerful you can be . Whenever we focus on the things what we actually wanted to do our mind get distracted for so many reasons. You all know what reasons that can be. By practicing pure yoga we all can control our thoughts.
What I found amazing in his book was when he described how to learn anything. We all try to learn something always. There is no limitation of learning. You will learn throughout your life journey. If you are not learning you are not alive. What Swami described in his book that You should not work on collecting facts. We all can do that. So on what should we work? We should actually work on how to get focused to collect the facts. If you are focused on what you are studying then after collecting the facts you can DO your work perfectly.
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