Swami Vivekananda was a famous Indian Hindu monk born in 1863 in Calcutta. Contact with his spiritual teacher Ramakrishna changed his life and led him to become a monk. He founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897 after becoming world famous for his inspiring speech on religion at the 1893 Parliament of Religions in Chicago. Throughout his life, he worked to spread Hindu philosophy and teachings, emphasizing service, spiritual practices like yoga and meditation, and the idea that God can be realized through spiritual experiences.

1. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

2.  Presented by:
Pathak Khyati B.
B.E 7th Sem. Civil Department
GEC Bhavnagar

3.  Born in Calcutta in 1863.
 Contact of Ramakrishna change Narendra’s
life.
 Became world famous at Chicago in1883.
 “jiva is shiva”.
 “Awake, arise & stop not till the goal is
reached.”
 He founded Ramakrishna mission in 1897.

4.  Swami vivekananda’s inspiring personality
was well known both in India & America.
 The unknown monk of India suddenly leapt
into fame at Parliament of Religion held in
Chicago in 1893.
 In the course of short of 39 years of which
only 10 were devoted to public activities.
 He gave: gyan yog, bhakti yog, karma yog,
raj yog.

5.  Swami Vivekananda was born Narendranath
Datta on 12 January 1863 in Calcutta in a
respectable middle-class.
 His father, Viswanath Dutta, was an
attorney and was a lover of the arts and
literature.
 On the other hand, Narendra’s mother,
Bhubaneshwari Devi, was a pious, kind-hearted
lady, devoted to the Hindu traditions.

6.  Narendranath had varied interests & wide
range of scholarship in philosophy, history,
social sciences, art and other subjects.
 He evinced much interest in spiritual text.

7.  Vivekananda strated his education at home,
later he joined metropolitan institution of
ishwarchandra vidyasagar in 1871 and he
passed the entrance examination of presidency
college, Calcutta.
 Narendranath became the member of a
Freemason's lodge and the breakaway faction
from the Brahmo samaj led by kesab chandra
sen another Freemason.

8.  His initial beliefs were shaped by Brahmo
concepts, which include belief in a formless
God and deprecation of the worship of idols.
 Not satisfied with his knowledge of Philosophy,
he wondered if God and religion could be made
a part of one's growing experiences and deeply
internalized. Narendra went about asking
prominent residents of contemporary Calcutta
whether they had come "face to face with God.
but could not get answers which satisfied him.

10. Swamiji’s Divine Message
for
the Youth

11. We are what out thoughts have made us;
so take care about what you think.
Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

12. Take up one idea.
Make that one idea your life.
Think of it, dream of it.
Live on that idea.
Let the brain, muscles, nerves,
every part of your body Be full of
that idea.
This the way to "SUCCESS”.

13. When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is
transformed in to
an actual physical or mental state.

14. Education is the man
ifestation of perfection
already in man.

15.  Every duty is holy, and devotion to duty is
the highest form of the worship of God.
When you are doing any work, do not
think of anything beyond. Do it as
worship, As the highest worship, and
devote your whole life to it for the time
being.

16. Neither money pays, nor name, nor
fame, nor learning,
it is CHARACTER
that can cleave through adamantine
walls of difficulties.

17. It is good to be born a
child;
but bad to remain a
child

18.  If you think that the infinite power,
 infinite knowledge, and indomitable energy
 lie within you, and if you can bring out that
power,
 You also can be like Me.

19. Quotes From
Swami
Vivekananda

20. “Stand up, be bold, be
strong. Take the whole
responsibility on your
own shoulders, & know
that you are the creator
of your own destiny”

21. “They alone live who
live for others, rest are
more dead then alive”

22. “Arise! Awake! And stop
not
till the goal is reached”

23. “Strength is life,
Weakness is death”

24. “To be good and to
do good-that is the
whole of religion”

25. THANKS