Do not get extremely attached

We must not be extremely attached to anything except God. See Everything, Do Everything, but be not attached. As soon as Extreme attachment comes, a man looses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

  Swami Vivekananda

The Intolerant message of Swami Vivekananda

This was posted by a critic of Swami Vivekananda, showing the seemingly intolerance in these line. I really appreciate the passion of this person in searching these and quoting these out of context which seem very logical to his "followers". He write to the post "Message to Indian converts - if you don't like the Hindu culture of this country, why don't you go away?" The message is not as stated by the person but even in this context the message is not altogether wrong. Here I would like to quote Bobby Jindal an Indo- American Governor whos says, "I am explicitly saying that it is completely reasonable for nations to discriminate between allowing people into their country who want to embrace their culture, or allowing people into their country who want to destroy their culture, or establish a separate culture within," The message is very clear that there is a reasonable difference between those who want to accept a culture and those who want to destroy you culture and it is very logical as well. If we are allowing any foreign culture to come and spread. It cannot be at the cost of our own destruction. 

This is in response to the acts of christian missionary opposing the Shiva Worship and Hindu Culture by imposing Jesus as only True savior. We can clearly see the condition which has been mentioned in the statement  "If you can't bear them" If any society is so much non-tolerant why they should live here? It is not that Christians are very tolerant. We have so many examples of fanaticism of Christians as well. At the time of swami ji every christian used to believe that there is only one saviour Jesus christ, It was swami ji's influence on Europian people that they started to think and say that there are other true way to god also. Since the main motive of christian missionary was conversion there should not be any doubt they may have said something wrong about the great Indian culture as well.

Again I am not against those who oppose evil customs but those who want to destroy the Indian Culture in a panned manner. We can see such examples in our neighborhood as well.

I think I have answered the man, If you have any question or any thing to share please let me Know through your comments. 

Vivek Vani on Happiness

Happiness is not in this heaven or in that heaven it is in the Soul 

 Swami Vivekananda

Was Swami vivekananda wrong on Geeta?

A person posted this indicating a contradiction of thought between People of Modern India and Swami Vivekananda. Although I fully accept that there may be contradiction of thought as time has changed. There are some eternal truths while there are some time dependent truth. On one hand the eternal truth always remains valid and is applicable in any scenario while time dependent truth are given as solution of problem for any specific point of time. The second one has to be understood in the context it has been said. The message of Swami ji is very clear and that is the message of strength. While some people may take the above line of swami ji as insult of Srimad Bhagwad Geeta. But it is not. Why swami ji said so has to be understood well. In one of his lectures he clarifies it. "You will not be able to understand the message of strength provided by Upnishads and Geeta if you are physically not strong and mere reading of Bhagwat gita is not going to do any good for you."
We need to understand this statement in this context.

Some on has objection on "To be religious, you have to throw the books overboard." and "Books make us parrots."

Ashutosh Garg's: AnswerYes right, Now come to this point. This has been said in context of True Religious it means attaining the ultimate goal. Moksha which is not bounded by senses books etc. Books give mere preparation for this ultimate journey. Here I would like to quote RamKriasha Paramhas who used to say after long time of samadhi The feeling when you are in samadhi goes beyond what has been said in vedas and Upnishads. The reason behind is what has been said in any book is limited because of our sense but feeling in samadhi is not limited by sense.

Vivekanand Vani

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material - Swami Vivekananda

Vivekanand Vani 31 Dec 2014

And if all this maya is so beautiful, think of the wondrous beauty of the reality behind it

- Swami Vivekananda

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