Newsletter:Religion , Practical Vedanta and more..

[madhu lekha]

      Hope all of you had a good festival time in the past 15 days..Here's our next newsletter..
      Please spare time to go through it and do not miss any ! ! 

•     Religion had a lot more to do with our social life rather than going to temples and worshiping idols..

       This research journal makes evident he views of Swami Vivekananda towards religion
      and brings out its practical applications.      * Click here to know about it
      <http://www.isrj.net/May/2011/Other_Philosophical_Ideas_of_Swami_Vivekananda.aspx> *
                         " To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion. "

•     Wonderful words of Swamiji from his work "Practical Vedanta".

      **  Many times I have been in the jaws of death,starving,footsore and weary;for days and days I had no food,
          and often could walk no further;
          I would sink down under a tree,and life would seem to be ebbing away.
          I could not speak,I could scarcely think,but at last the mind reverted to the idea : 
         "I have no fear nor death;never was I born,never did I die;I never hunger or thirst.I am it ! I am it !
         The whole of nature cannot crush me;it is my servant.Assert thy strength,thou Lord of Lords and God of Gods!
         Regain thy lost empire!Arise and walk and stop not!"
         And I would rise up, reinvigorated; and here I am today, living!
         Thus, whenever darkness comes, assert the reality and everything adverse must vanish. For after all, it is but a dream .
 .        Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Maya.
          Fear not, and it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies . *

         Read more about Practical Vedanta here *<https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=214427435324857>*

•       Till now all of us have seen many inspirational quotes of Swami Vivekananda..

          Here is a poem *No one to blame* from one of the rarest collections..
          The original version is in Bengali,this being the translation of it..
          Click here to  read it..
         *<https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=214433515324249>*

•    Here is a truly genius talk by Nobel laureate (for peace-2006),author of 'creating a world without poverty',founder of 'Grameen Bank' - Muhammad Yunus . A must watch video on social business which centers about others ,
   propagating the idea of not merely looking out for your own personal interests,but also for the interests of others..
   Watch it here*<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C3XQ3BTd4o>*
  
  
  Thanking you ,
  Madhu Lekha.
  
          

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Madhu Lekha,

1st year Undergraduate,

Electrical Eng.,
IIT Bombay.