A MODERN YOUTH CAN LEARN FROM

VIVEKANANDA
I read some collections of Vivekananda and I consolidate that. May be it
was useful for Indian philosophers in ethics paper and even can use in
essay papers also.

Introduction:
All other nations in the world captured one another for certain
period, soaked in a deluge of blood. But India for thousand years
peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece and Rome
didnt exist. We, of all nations, of the world, have never been a
conquering race and that blessing is our heritage. The globe-trotting
travellers, especially foreigners, who deplored the ignorance of the
eastern masses which was partly true and at the same time partly untrue.
If you ask a peasant in foreign he will say whether he is a republican or
democratic or conservative and he told that his religion as he belongs to
particular church.
In India, its just opposite when we ask a peasant about politics he
ask in return What is politics? But when ask about religion he shows
mark on his forehead. This land from the beginning is a SACRED LAND
/ PUNYA BHOOMI. Political greatness or military power is never the
mission of our race. We never preached our thoughts with fore and sword.
It is the land of Upanishads. Here you can see plenty of Gods with
different names but it is the same one.

Features of Indian society:

The foreigners talk of politics, of the glory, of acquisition of other
nations, acquisition of immense wealth poured in by trade of the power
and spread of commercialism and of the glorious fountain of physical
liberty. Their theme of life is political supremacy, materialism ; religion
&everything become subordinate that one great theme of their life. But,
ours the theme of life is spirituality, religion, God, soul, spiritual freedom,
transcendental meditation and renunciation. Each peasant will know these
here very well.

Youths duty to conquer the world:

If you see any idea of God from any other scriptures, equal to
ours, they have only clan-Gods of particular race. Our path preaches
always Peace, peace, peace. Our reformation is of construction to uplift
the race. First educate the nation, create your legislative body and laws.
The great reformers like Shankaracharya has been the slow bringing back
of the Indian masses to the pristine purity of the vedantic region. Sudden
changes cannot be and Shankarcharya knew it. So did Ramanuja. The
only way is to bring up slowly to the highest ideal, the existing religion.
In Europe political ideas form the national unity. But here, the
first plank in the making of a future India is this unification of religion.
Our idea must be, to bring out the gems of spirituality to all people,
which are in Sanskrit language, we should make them popular. So
Knowledge is the only skin deep as civilisation is
We must be bold enough to speak about other defects but at the
same time we must give credit that is due to them. It is one of the great
blessings of British rule in India to eliminate discrimination. We are not
united and not have will power so they made as slaves easily. Atharva
Veda Samhitha says

Be thou all of one mind

Be thou all of one thought to achieve a goal.
We need accumulation of will power, co ordination and bring all
in one focus. Women must come forward to make big societies like
western women. We always need purification of the heart. We must have
a hold on the spiritual and secular education of the nation.
Education is the identical with information, libraries are the
greatest Sages in the world and encyclopaedias are the Rishis. We must
not quarrel with other sects. We have to carry religion door to door, along
with secular education also.

Conclusion:
So, as we learnt from the blessings of Swami Vivekananda.
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Follow the life of spirituality

Transcedental meditation
Firm determination
Respecting other races

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Eliminating discrimination
rganisation
Co ordination
Renunciation
Affording all the above values we can
build a strong India within 2020 as our former President Dr. A .P.J.
ABDUL KALAM dreams.

by N. Mahanitya
Reference:
- To the Youth of India by Swami vivekanada.