New Year Greetings 2011 !!!

I take the opportunity to wishing all of you

and your family

“A VERY HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2011”

With Best Regards,

ANK_MHT Group Team

Today's Swami Vivekananda QUOTE

Ramakrishna came to teach the religion of today, constructive, not destructive. He had to go afresh to Nature to ask for facts, and he got scientific religion which never says "believe," but "see": "I see, and you too can see." Use the same means and you will reach the same vision. God will come to everyone, harmony is within the reach of all.

Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 30, 1895. Complete Works, 7.24.

Is there a greater strength than that of Brahmacharya--purity, my boy?

Letter to his brother-disciples. Written in Bengali from New York on Sep 25, 1894. Complete Works, 6.271.

 

 

Sri Ramakrishna's teachings are "the gist of Hinduism." They were not peculiar to him. Nor did he claim that they were. He cared naught for name or fame.

Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 30, 1895. Complete Works, 7.24.

In Japan you find a fine assimilation of knowledge, and not its indigestion, as we have here in India. They have taken everything from the Europeans, but they remain Japanese all the same, and have not turned European, while in our country, the terrible mania of becoming Westernized has seized upon us like a plague.

Conversation with Priya Nath Sinha, Belur Math. Complete Works, 5.372.

A great Bhakta, Hanuman, once said when asked what day of the month it was: "God is my eternal date. No other date I care for."

Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 30, 1895. Complete Works, 7.26.

 

 

There is no supernatural, says the yogi, but there are in nature gross manifestations and subtle manifestations. The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects. The gross can be easily perceived by the senses; not so the subtle. The practice of Raja Yoga will lead to the acquisition of the more subtle perceptions.

From Swamiji's preface to his book, Raja Yoga. Complete Works, 1.122.

 

 

Shivo'ham, Shivo'ham, "I am Shiva! I am Shiva!" I feel as if a thunderbolt strikes me on the head when I hear people dwell on negative thoughts. That sort of self-depreciating attitude is another name for disease--do you call that humility? It is vanity in disguise!

Letter to his brother-disciples. Written in Bengali from New York on Sep 25, 1894. Complete Works, 6.273.

 

 

The very soul of the Asian is interwoven with art. The Asian never uses a thing unless there be art in it. Don't you know that art is, with us, a part of religion? How greatly is a lady admired, among us, who can nicely paint the floors and walls, on auspicious occasions, with the paste of rice powder? How great an artist was Sri Ramakrishna himself!

Conversation with Priya Nath Sinha, Belur Math. Complete Works, 5.372-73.

MERRY CHRISTMAS & Happy new Year

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and

Happy and successful New Year 2011

Wish you and your family health and happiness



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TEAM - ANK_MHT Group.
JAI SAT CHIT ANAND.

Today's Swami Vivekananda QUOTE

God is ever active. All power is his and within his command. Through his command the winds blow, the sun shines, the earth lives, and death stalks upon the earth (Katha Upanishad, 2.3.3). God is the all in all. God is all and in all. We can only worship God.

Class on Karma Yoga. New York, January 10, 1896. Complete Works, 1.107.

The teachings of Krishna as taught by the Gita are the grandest the world has ever known. He who wrote that wonderful poem was one of those rare souls whose lives sent a wave of regeneration through the world. The human race will never again see such brain as his who wrote the Gita.

Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 30, 1895. Complete Works, 7.22.

 
 

The music of the Westerners is much advanced. They have the sentiment of pathos as well as of heroism in their music, which is as it should be.

Conversation: July 1898, at Nilambar Mukherjee's garden house in Belur. Complete Works, 5.363.

Ordinarily speaking, spiritual aspiration ought to be balanced through the intellect, otherwise it may degenerate into mere sentimentality.

Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 30, 1895. Complete Works, 7.22.

Shivananda: What is Western music like?

Vivekananda: Oh, it is very good. There is in it a perfection of harmony, which we have not attained. Only, to our untrained ears, it does not sound well, hence we do not like it, and think that the singers howl like jackals. I also had the same sort of impression, but when I began to listen to the music with attention and study it minutely, I came more and more to understand it, and I was lost in admiration. Such is the case with every art. In glancing at a highly finished painting we cannot understand where its beauty lies. Moreover, unless the eye is, to a certain extent, trained, one cannot appreciate the subtle touches and blendings, the inner genius of a work of art.

Conversation: July 1898, at Nilambar Mukherjee's garden house in Belur. Complete Works, 5.361-62.

If I am God, then my soul is a temple of the Highest, and my every work should be a worship--love for love's sake, duty for duty's sake, without hope of reward or fear of punishment. Thus my religion means expansion, and expansion means realization and perception in the highest sense--no mumbling words or genuflections. We have to become divine, realizing the divine more and more from day to day in an endless progress.

From a summary of a lecture given before the Brooklyn Ethical Society at the Pouch Mansion, Brooklyn, on December 30, 1894. Reproduced from the Brooklyn Standard Union. Complete Works, 1.332.

 
 

Great saints are the object-lessons of the Principle. But the disciples make the saint the Principle, and then they forget the Principle in the person.

Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 30, 1895. Complete Works, 7.21.