This document contains short summaries of concepts from Swami Vivekananda's teachings, including non-violence, devotion to God, education, ethics, faith in oneself, freedom, and the Gita. The summaries address topics such as the importance of focusing on others rather than oneself in ethics, working without attachment to outcomes according to the Gita's teachings, and that true greatness is demonstrated through consistently virtuous character.

1. Swami Vivekananda Part-01 Endaro mahaanubhavulu andarikee vandanamulu… Great messages by Swami Vivekananda 25.08.2010 10:25:21

2. AHIMSA There is no virtue higher than non injury… 25.08.2010 10:24:23

3. BHAKTI Bhakti is a higher thing higher than even desiring heaven. The idea of heaven is of a place of intensified enjoyment. How can that be God? 25.08.2010 10:24:23

4. BOOK LEARNING Even he who has seen only a spook is more spiritual than book-learned pundits… 25.08.2010 10:24:23

5. CHASTITY No force can be created; it can only be directed. Therefore, we must learn to control the grand powers that are already in our hands, and by will power make them spiritual, instead of merely animal. Thus it is clearly seen that chastity is the cornerstone of all morality and of all religion. 25.08.2010 10:24:23

6. COMPETITION The day will come when men will study history from a different light and find that competition is neither the cause nor the effect, simply a thing on the way, not necessary to evolution at all. 25.08.2010 10:24:23

7. CONCENTRATION The mind has to be made malleable like clay. Just as clay sticks wherever you throw it, so the mind must be made to dwell upon whatever object you concentrate it. 25.08.2010 10:24:23

8. COURAGE The brave alone can afford to be sincere. Compare the lion and the fox. 25.08.2010 10:24:23

9. DECISION-MAKING When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates. 25.08.2010 10:24:23

10. DEVOTION The devotion to God as seen in every religion is divided into two parts: the devotion which works through forms and ceremonies and through words, and that which works through love… 25.08.2010 10:24:23

11. EAST AND WEST Social life in the West is like a peal of laughter; but underneath, it is a wail. It ends in a sob. The fun and frivolity are all on the surface: really it is full of tragic intensity. Now here, it is sad and gloomy on the outside, but underneath are carelessness and merriment. 25.08.2010 10:24:23

12. EDUCATION We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet. Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man. 25.08.2010 10:24:23

13. ETHICS Ethics always says, "Not I, but thou." Its motto is, "Not self, but non-self." The vain ideas of individualism, to which man clings when he is trying to find that Infinite Power or that Infinite Pleasure through the senses, have to be given up--say the laws of ethics. You have to put yourself last, and others before you. The senses say, "Myself first." Ethics says, "I must hold myself last." Thus, all codes of ethics are based upon this renunciation; destruction, not construction, of the individual on the material plane. 25.08.2010 10:24:24

14. FAITH IN ONESELF The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself. 25.08.2010 10:24:24

15. FANATICS AND FANATICISM In ninety cases out of a hundred, fanatics must have bad livers, or they are dyspeptics, or are in some way diseased. By degrees even physicians will find out that fanaticism is a kind of disease. 25.08.2010 10:24:24

16. FLESH The flesh and the devil are but degrees of difference from God Himself. 25.08.2010 10:24:24

17. FREEDOM All our struggle is for freedom. We seek neither misery nor happiness, but freedom, freedom alone. The constitutional belief in freedom is the basis of all reasoning. 25.08.2010 10:24:24

18. GITA This is the one central idea in the Gita: work incessantly, but be not attached to it. That wonderful poem, without one note in it, of weakness or unmanliness. 25.08.2010 10:24:24

19. GOD Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure another set. Those that tell us that there is sin and sorrow and death in the world are terrible. But the other set — thou art holy, there is God, there is no pain — these are good, and help to break the bondage of the others. The highest imagination that can break all the links of the chain is that of the Personal God. 25.08.2010 10:24:24

20. GREATNESS Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be… 25.08.2010 10:24:24

21. Thank you… Smile…Share…Live! Life is beautiful!! Have a nice day… a presentation by pvrsrpvarma 25.08.2010 10:24:24