A Very Happy 'National Youth Day' - A memorable day for Youth
Praneet Sushil
Why India is called a great country? Its because of our rich and varied culture, multi ethnic society favourable climate and phsiography & above all our great human values. But it's the people of the country who make a country great and greater. Who carries the values from one age to other.
The human resources of a country represented by brilliant outstanding,self-sacrificing, austere & courageous persons make a nation great.
Time and again such great personalities have taken birth on the soil of this country.
From Raja Harishchandra, Raghu, Ram, Bharat to Pandav's,
Saint Mahrishi Yagvalkya, Dhadhici, Shukdev, vaalmiki, Aachrya shankar, Dayanand sarswati, Sai baba to Ram Krishna Paramhans.
Poets and devotees like raidaas, soordaas, tulsidas, saint kabir to rahim.
From Ashok mahaan, Prthvi raaj chauhaan, Maharana pratap, Akbar to tipu sultaan. And revolutionaries like Shivaji, mahadaji scindia, Guru Goving Singh, rani Lakshmi Bai, Rani Durgawati, Azzaad, Ashfaaq to Sheed-e-azam Bhagat Singh.
These outstanding personalities have set examples of service and sacrifice to mankind and to their motherland. Their immense love to their motherland and to their fellow citizens has made them great. Moral values like truth, sacrifice and patriotism have pervaded through the ages essentially because of these people. They are the real assets of our country. And they have made our country really great.
Swami Vivekanand is one of the shining star of our country. He has been a major source of inspiration for the youth from last few decades in country. His great love to his motherland made him remarkably different from other saints of country. He was an exceptional thinker, motivator, spiritual leader and devotee and a perfect combination of mind and body.
Swamiji was the first religious leader in India to speak for the masses, formulate a definite philosophy of service, and organize large-scale social service.
his mantra for the life is "Be and make" – his own words are about his aim of life "I am here to build true man. Pure, courageous and educated persons are true in all respects"
Swamiji's said "Even you don't believe in religion, in god or haven't faith in such mythological things but if you have faith in yourselves, then stand up on that faith and be strong; you can achieve everything"
About his brilliancy, according to his professors, student Narendranath was a prodigy. Dr. William Hastie, the principal of Scottish Church College, where he studied during 1881-84, wrote, "Narendra is really a genius. I have travelled far and wide but I have never come across a lad of his talents and possibilities, even in German universities, among philosophical students." He was regarded as a srutidhara—a man with prodigious memory
He also received two academic offers, the chair of Eastern Philosophy at Harvard University and a similar position at Columbia University. He declined both, saying that, as a wandering monk, he could not settle down to work of this kind.
'Service to mankind is service to god'. Following these words many young aspirants have left their promising careers and all ambitions and join the service and sacrifice path in their lives.
Others on Vivekanada –
He had been an inspirational personality for freedom fighters for long time especially Azzad, Jatin Dass (chemistry professor who finally turned a revolutionary on Bhagat Singh words) and Subash Chandra Bose kept Swamji's books in their struggle period.
Netaji Bose said about him that Swamiji's was a born warrior. He kept himself busy by reading his speeches and teachings in his childhood and used to forget his studies too. I He had left home in his childhood to serve poor and sick persons to follow the swamiji's path"
He continued, "Our countrymen have gained unprecedented self-respect, self-reliance and self-assertion from his teachings."
Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore said on his life "If you wish to understand what India is; you need to read and learn Vivekanada."
India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote: "Rooted in the past, full of pride in India's prestige, Vivekananda was yet modern in his approach to life's problems, and was a kind of bridge between the past of India and her present
Today on the 'National Youth Day' lets pledge to inculcate at least some of the values, traits & teachings of this great saint and scholar. By spreading his thoughts and applying life messages we can pay a true homage to this national icon. The minimum that we can do to eradicate weakness of our mind and body from our life as his message to world is 'Strength is life and weakness is death'
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