This is Part -3, of the Inspiring Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda on Education and Society, presented for your careful reading, consideration, reflection and of course necessary action. Yes, one idea can change the world. The question is, are we ready and willing?

1. Inspiring Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda on Education and Society ~ Part - 3 Submitted by Prof. V. Viswanadham

2. Inspiring Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda on Education and Society ~ Part - 3 My idea of education is personal contact with the teacher – gurugrha-vasa. Without the personal life of a teacher, there would be no education.

3. Inspiring Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda on Education and Society ~ Part - 3 The idea of the sacrifice for the common weal is not yet developed in our nation.

4. Inspiring Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda on Education and Society ~ Part - 3 Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient and modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die. Societies should be moulded upon truth, and truth has not to adjust itself to society. … That society is the greatest, where the highest truths become practical.

5. Inspiring Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda on Education and Society ~ Part - 3 I say liberate, undo the shackles of people as much as you can. … When you would be able to sacrifice all desire for happiness for the sake of society, then you would be the Buddha, then you would be free.

7. Inspiring Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda on Education and Society ~ Part - 3 The Hindu man drinks religiously, sleeps religiously, walks religiously, marries religiously, robs religiously. … Each nation has a mission for the world. So long as that mission is not hurt, that nation lives, despite every difficulty. But as soon as its mission is destroyed, the nation collapses.

8. Inspiring Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda on Education and Society ~ Part - 3 Do you not find in history that the first death sign of a nation has been unchastity? When that has entered, the end of the race is in sight.

9. Inspiring Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda on Education and Society ~ Part - 3 Now we are not much more moral than the animals. We are only held down by the whips of society. If society said today, ‘ I will not punish you if you steal’, we should just make a rush for each other’s property. It is the policeman that makes us moral. It is social opinion that makes us moral, and really, we are little better than animals.

10. Inspiring Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda on Education and Society ~ Part - 3 The majority of sects will be transient, and last only as bubbles, because the leaders are not usually men of character. Perfect love, the heart never reacting, this is what builds character.

11. Inspiring Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda on Education and Society ~ Part - 3 Do not recognize wickedness in others. Wickedness is ignorance, weakness. What is the good of telling people they are weak? Criticism and destruction are of no avail. We must give them something higher; tell them of their own glorious nature, their birthright.

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