2. Rabindranth Tagore on
Swami Vivekanand
• If you want to know
India, study
Vivekananda.
In him everything is
positive and nothing
negative.
3. Sri Aurobindo on Swami Vivekanand
• A radiant glance from
the eye of Shiva; but
behind him is the divine
gaze from which he
came and Shiva himself
and Brahma and Vishnu
and OM all-exceeding.
4. Practical Vedanta- Swami Vivekanand
• 1 Adarsh- ideal
• 2Self Confidence
• 3 why faith in Shashtra
• 4 Success mantra
• “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, and just leave
every other idea alone. This is
the way to success.”
5. Historical Significance of 1893
• Swami Vivekanand at Chicago
• Sri Aurobindo reurn to India from England
• Lokmanya Tiak – Ganesh Utsav
• Annie Beasant – Theosophical Society
6. Gift to the world
• Gift to the world -
lecture
• Feb27,1895
7. Yoga
• Yoga, as Swami
Vivekananda has said,
may be regarded as a
means of compressing
one's evolution into a
single life or a few years
or even a few months of
bodily existence.