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I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.
#SwamiVivekananda
Chairman VIF
@sgurumurthy
presented ‘India’s Contribution to World Thought and Culture’ | a special VIF India publication to the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Shri
@narendramodi
today.
If you can lay down your life for a cause, then only you can be a leader. But we all want to be leaders without making the necessary sacrifice. And the result is zero - nobody listens to us !
#SwamiVivekananda
Chairman VIF
@sgurumurthy
presents a copy of AATMANIRBHAR BHARAT: A Vibrant and Strong India | a Special VIF India publication to Hon'ble Prime Minister of India
@narendramodi
For more details click here...
#AatmaNirbharBharat
'Bring in the light and the evil goes in a moment. Build up your character, and manifest your real nature, the Effulgent, the Resplendent, the Ever-Pure, and call It up in everyone that you see.'
#SwamiVivekananda
If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be, if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be, if you think yourselves impure, impure you will be, if you think yourselves pure, pure you will be.
#SwamiVivekananda
'Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.'
#SwamiVivekananda
Indian Railways creates history by converting a diesel locomotive into an electric one using indigenous technology under ‘Make In India’ initiative. This development will give impetus to Govt's move of switching to electric locomotives in the country.
'To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean,” says the persevering soul, “at my will mountains will crumble up.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.'
#SwamiVivekananda
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, then, is this : the man who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish man, is the most successful.
#SwamiVivekananda
'What we think, that our body becomes. Everything is manufactured by thought, and thus we are the manufacturers of our own lives. We alone are responsible for what we do.'
#SwamiVivekananda
The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge.
#SwamiVivekananda
I want bold, daring, adventurous spirits to help me. Else I will work alone. I have a mission to fulfil. If I could get two or three like me, I could have left the world convulsed.
#SwamiVivekananda
Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great :
1. Conviction of the powers of goodness.
2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion.
3. Helping all who are trying to be and do good.
#SwamiVivekananda
"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free"
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Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, the ideal father, and, above all, the ideal all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great saint Valmiki.
#swamivivekananda
Special Address by the Jamyang Namgyal, Member of Parliament from Ladakh speaking on the similarities between Ladakh and Mongolia
#SamvadIII
in Ulanbatar
It is culture that withstands shocks, not a simple mass of knowledge. You can put a mass of knowledge into the world, but that will not do it much good. There must come culture into the blood.
#SwamiVivekananda
Upon ages of struggle a character is built. Be not discouraged. One word of truth can never be lost ; for ages it may be hidden under rubbish, but it will show itself sooner or later. Truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible.
#SwamiVivekananda
To know what according to Prof
@rvaidya2000
are the Stimulating Engines of our Economic Growth to make India
#AatmaNirbhar
, click here for more details
'As the blacksmith keeps alive the fire of his furnace by the occasional blowing of his bellows, so the mind should be kept clean and growing with the help of pious company.'
#SriRamakrishna
Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of matter to the highest existence on earth, the human soul.
#SwamiVivekananda
"When the real history of India will be unearthed, it will be proved that, as in matters of religion, so in fine arts, India is the primal Guru of the whole world."
#swamivivekananda
The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.
#SwamiVivekananda
"Strength, strength, it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. with weakness come ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery."
#SwamiVivekananda
When the lotus opens, the bees come of their own accord to seek the honey ; so let the lotus of your character be full - blown and the results will follow.
#SwamiVivekananda
“The Indian nation cannot be killed. Deathless it stands, and it will stand so long as that spirit shall remain as the background, so long as her people do not give up their spirituality.”
#SwamiVivekananda
It is a very difficult task to take on the role of a leader. One must be a servant of servants, and must accommodate a thousand minds. There must not be a shade of jealousy or selfishness, and then you are a leader.
#SwamiVivekananda
It has been one of the principles of my life not to be ashamed of my own ancestors. I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry.
#SwamiVivekananda
In eating, dressing, or lying, in singing or playing, in enjoyment or disease, always manifest the highest moral courage. If you can build your character after such an ideal, then a thousand others will follow.
#SwamiVivekananda
If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand. Therefore, it is better to have an ideal.
#SwamiVivekananda
Man cannot really help the world.God alone does that-He who has created the sun and the moon,who has put endowed noble souls with compassion& holy men and devotees with divine love.The man who works for others,without any selfish motive,really does good to himself
#SriRamakrishna
Believe in yourselves first. I may be a little bubble, and you may be a wave mountain - high, but know that for both of us the infinite ocean is the background.
#swamivivekananda
"Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused."
#SwamiVivekananda
Beleive in yourselves first. I may be a little bubble, and you may be a wave mountain -high, but know that for both of us the infinite ocean is the background.
#SwamiVivekananda
When the lotus opens, the bees come of their own accord to seek the honey ; so let the lotus of your character be full - blown and the results will follow.
#SwamiVivekananda
Today I stand here to say, the land to which all souls on this earth must come to account for Karma, the land where humanity has attained its highest towards generosity, towards purity, the land above all all of introspection and of spirituality, it is India.
#SwamiVivekananda
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres.
#SwamiVivekananda
'Any action that makes us go Godward is a good action,and is our duty, and any action that makes us to go downward is evil, and is not our duty.'
#SwamiVivekananda
It is culture that withstands shocks, not a simple mass of knowledge. You can put a mass of knowledge into the world, but that will not do it much good. There must come culture into the blood.
#SwamiVivekananda
I want bold, daring, adventurous spirits to help me. Else I will work alone. I have a mission to fulfil. If I could get two or three like me, I could have left the world convulsed.
#SwamiVivekananda
Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
#SwamiVivekananda
Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
#SwamiVivekananda
It is culture that withstands shocks, not a simple mass of knowledge. You can put a mass of knowledge into the world, but that will not do it much good. There must come culture into the blood.
#SwamiVivekananda
'Stand up , be bold , be strong !
Know that you are the creator of your own destiny . All the strength and succour you want is within yourself.'
#SwamiVivekananda
"For our national welfare, India must gather up of its scattered spiritual forces. India must be a union of those whose hearts beat to the same spiritual tune."
#SwamiVivekananda
When the lotus opens, the bees come of their own accord to seek the honey ; so let the lotus of your character be full - blown and the results will follow.
#SwamiVivekananda
'Stand up , be bold , be strong !
Know that you are the creator of your own destiny . All the strength and succour you want is within yourself.'
#SwamiVivekananda
Krishna preached in the midst of the battlefield. "He who in the midst of intense activity finds himself in the greatest calmness, and in the greatest peace finds intense activity, that is the greatest Yogi as well as the wisest man."
#SwamiVivekananda
VIF is grateful to Hon'ble PM
@narendramodi
for his special message for AATMANIRBHAR BHARAT:A Vibrant&Strong India. In his words"the inner strength,intent &energy of the youthful nation are powering the nation's resolute efforts towards building a prosperous &
#AtmaNirbharBharat
"
'So long as you have love for God and Guru and faith in truth, nothing can hurt you, my son.But the loss of any of these is dangerous.'
#SwamiVivekananda
'My ideal indeed can be into a few words and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity and how to make it manifest in every moment of life.'
#SwamiVivekananda
It is the patient up building of character ,the intense struggle to realise the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
#SwamiVivekananda
'Each thought is a little hammer blow on the lump of iron which our bodies are, manufacturing out of it what we want it to be. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care of what you think.'
#SwamiVivekananda
Books are infinite in number, and time is short; therefore the secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
#swamivivekananda
What is education? Is it book-learning? No. Is it diverse knowledge? Not even that. The training by which the current and expression of will are brought under control and become fruitful is called education.
#SwamiVivekananda
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
#SwamiVivekananda
Clause 19 (b) of VIF Trust Deed prohibits
@vifindia
from accepting any donations from foreign sources other than people from Indian origin who are associated with the organisation.
@vifindia
has not received any foreign donations till date since its inception.
@sgurumurthy
Requesting
@vifindia
to tweet the relevant part of the deed as mischief mongers seem to be raising questions in TV shows which are anyway not worth seeing where are we getting money from. No money from abroad. Nothing from NDA govt in last six years. No question of it from UPA.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves.
#SwamiVivekananda
My hope of the future lies in the youths of character - intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - who can sacrifice their lives in working out my ideas and thereby do good to themselves and the country at large.
#SwamiVivekananda
'In eating, dressing or lying, in singing or playing, in enjoyment or disease,
always manifest the highest moral courage. If you can build your character after such an ideal, then a thousand others will follow.'
#SwamiVivekananda