Swami vivekananda

vivekananda

My faviorate hero is swami Vivekananda .There is hormonious meeting of Eastern and western cultures in him.He says that our country should barrow the Scientific knowledgefrom the west and give them the spiritual heritage of INDIA .Vivekananda awakened Indiawith his speechs and service activities

Swami vivekandnda was born in Calcutta on january 12,1863. his father was viswanathadutta and his mother was bhuvaneswari devi.His parents named in "narrendranath".Even in his child hood,he had a great attraction towards spiritualmatters. At college,he studied western thought. He has a spirit of critical enquiry.Once,he went to Sri Ramakrishna paramahamsa and asked the saint whether he had seen God. Ramakrishna replied that he had seen God and could show God to him. Narendranath became a disiple of Sri Ramakrishna paramahamsa.

Vivekananda travelled through out the country under-standing her problems. In 1893, he attended the "Parliment of religions" and universal God. He started Sri Ramakrishna mattAnd mission to serve the poor . His lectures awakend INDIA and it's cultural heritage.His message to the youth is full of spirit and patriotism.He says that ,"I want muscles of Ironand nerves of steel .........strength and manhood" .According to him ,Our national Ideals are renunciation and service."service to man is service to God".

vivekananda is a childwood hero

As A Boy Of Extradinary Performence


part-I
indications of future greatness were conspicuousin him from his very childhood he was

a very high spirited and restless child.he was some times given to fits of temper for which

his mother found a strangremedy.it was to put him under a tap and chart shiva's name.

as he grow up he showed signs of an extradinaroy generous nature. when ever a begger

are mendicant called at his house of for alms.he readly gave away even valuable things of

his house.his was found of pet animals and birds and had several such dumpcompanions.

some of them being a cow ,a goat,a monkey,apigeon,a peacock,and two are three guinepigs.

to his young imagination the coach men with his whip was the most admirable hero.Among

the boys of his group he was the object of their admiration and always their leader in his

faviorate game of the "king and the court" he invariably played the part of the king,and

appointed other as officiers.

even in his very early days he showed signs of an expectational intelligance and of a prodigious

memoryin his early childhood he learnt by heart gencalogy of his ancestors,hymns to gods and

goddesses and the aphorism of the sanskrit grammer"mugdha bodha" by hearing them recited every

evening sitting on a lap of an old realative. He learnt his lessons from his private tutors in an

extradinary way.He would show in his english and bengali books the particular lessons to be

learnt accordingly to the direction he got from his school.

the tutorwas to read it two or three times,as he was studying it him self naren listed to the

reading ,laying or sitting that was enough for him to master the lesson.

Birth and early life

Birth and early life

Narendranath Dutta was born in Shimla Pally, Kolkata, India on January 12, 1863 as the son of Viswanath Dutta and Bhuvaneswari Devi. Even as he was young, he showed a precocious mind and keen memory. He practiced meditation from a very early age. While at school, he was good at studies, as well as games of various kinds. He organized an amateur theatrical company and a gymnasium and took lessons in fencing, wrestling, rowing and other sports. He also studied instrumental and vocal music. Even when he was young, he questioned the validity of superstitious customs and discrimination based on caste and religion.

In 1879, Narendra entered the Presidency College, Calcutta for higher studies. After one year, he joined the Scottish Church College, Calcutta and studied philosophy. During the course, he studied western logic, western philosophy and history of European nations.

Questions started to arise in young Narendra's mind about God and the presence of God. This made him associate with the Brahmo Samaj, an important religious movement of the time, led by Keshub Chunder Sen. And along with his classmate and friend Brajendra Nath Seal, he regularly attended meetings of the breakaway Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. Later they would part ways with Dutta aligning himself with Keshub Chunder Sen's Nava Vidhan and Seal staying on as an initiated member. During this time spent together, both Dutta and Seal sought to understand the intricacies of faith, progress and spiritual insight into the works of John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer and G.W.F. Hegel.

But the Samaj's congregational prayers and devotional songs could not satisfy Narendra's zeal to realize God. He would ask leaders of Brahmo Samaj whether they have seen God. Their answers did not satisfy his quest for knowledge. It was during this time that Reverend William Hastie, the Principal of the Scottish Church College told him about Sri Ramakrishna of Dakshineswar.