NAME OF THE BOOK

LECTURES FROMCOLOMBO TO ALMORABYSWAMI VIVEKANANDA

ABOUT THE AUTHOR• THE AUTHOR IS WELL KNOWN PERSON IN THE WORLD AS SWAMI VIVEKANANDHA• BORN(12 JANUARY1863) DIED(4 JULY1902)• PARENTS VISHWANATH DATTA AND BHUVANESWARI DEVI• IN THE EARLY AGES HIS NAME WAS NARENDRA NATH LATER ON IT CHANGED AS

SWAMI VIVEKANANDHA• HE WAS AN HINDHU MONK AND CHIEF DISCIPLE OF MONK RAMA KRISHNA• HE WAS THE KEY FIGURE IN THE INTRODUCTION OF VEDHAS AND YOGA TO THE

WESTERN WORLD• VIVEKANANDHA FOUNDED RAMAKRISHNA MATH AND RAMA KRISHNA MISSION• BORN INTO AN ARISTOCRATIC BENGAL FAMILY VIVEKANDHA INCLINED TOWARDS

SPIRITUALITY AND INFLUENCED BY HIS GURU• AFTER HIS GURU DEATH VIVEKANANDHA TRAVELED ALL PARTS OF INDIA AND

ACQUIRED FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE OF CONDITIONS PREVELLED IN BRITISH INDIA

• LATER ON HE TRAVELLED TO UNITED STATES,REPRESENTING INDIA AT1893 PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD RELIGIONS

• SWAMY CONDUCTED HUNDREDS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LECTURES AND CLASSES,DESSEMINATING TENTS OF HINDHU PHILOSOPHY IN UNITED STATES,ENGLAND ,EUROPE,AND IN INDIA SOME PARTS OF SOUTHERN ASIA

AFTER SWAMIS DEATH HIS DIRTH IS CELEBRATED AS NATIONAL YOUTH DAY

IN THIS STAGE I WOULD LIKE TO EXPLAIN YOU SOME OF MY VIEWS WHICH I LEARNED FROM SWAMIS WRITINGS

FIRST PUBLIC LECTURE IN THE EAST• What little work has been done by me has not been from any inherent

power that resides in me , but from the cheers , goodwill , the blessings have followed my path in west from this our very beloved , most scared dear mother land . SOME GOOD HAS BEEN DONE , NO DOUBT I IN THE WEST , but specially to my self , I thought as every Hindu thinks, and as the honour .that ours is Punya Bhumi the land of Karma

ABOUT INDIA-• Let the Persians or the Greeks , the Romans , the Arab , or the

English man march his battalions ,conquer the world link the different nations together , and the philosophy and spirituality of India is ever ready to flow along the new made channels into the veins of the nations of the world

• if there is one word in English language to represent the gift of India to world , if their in one word to in the English language to express the effect which the literature of India produces up on mankind , it is just one word , “ FASCINATION

• Indian thoughts , Indian manners , Indian customs , Indian philosophy , Indian literature , which are repulsive in the first sight , but let them preserve , let them read , let them become familiar with the great principles.

• TOPICS WHAT SWAMI COVERED IN HIS LECTURES-THE MISSION OF VEDANTHA-THE SAGES OF INDIA-ON CHARITY-BHAKTHI-THE COMMON BASE OF HINDHUISM-THE RELIGION WE ARE BORN IN-GREATNESS OF VEDANTHAS-YOGA AND GREATNESS TO WORLD

LET US MAKE OUR MODERN SAINT OF INDIA PROUD……….at least remember him once

Thank u………… AJAY BHASKAR SEC C( PGDM

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