Dear All ,
Today is 150th Birthday of Swami Vivekananda .
This is what our national leaders have said about him.
Rabindranath Tagore :
If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.Sri Aurobindo :
We perceive
Vivekananda’s influence still working gigantically, we know not well
how, we know not well where, in something that is not yet formed,
something leonine, grand, intuitive, up heaving that has entered the soul
of India and we say, ‘Behold, Vivekananda still lives in the soul of
his Mother and in the souls of her children.’
Bal Gangadhar Tilak :
Twelve centuries ago Sankaracharya was the only great personality, who not only spoke of the purity of our religion, not only uttered in words that this religion was our strength and wealth, not only said that it was our sacred duty to preach this religion in the length and breadth of the world—but also brought all this into action. Swami Vivekananda is a person of that stature—who appeared towards the last half of the 19th century.Mahatma Gandhi :
Mahatma Gandhi v I have gone through Vivekananda’s works very thoroughly, and after having gone through them, the love that I had for my country became a thousand-fold.Jawaharlal Nehru :
Rooted in the past and 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. . . He was a
fine figure of a man, imposing, full of poise and dignity, sure of
himself and his mission, and at the same time full of a dynamic and
fiery energy and a passion to push India forward
