swami vivekananda an inspiration

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A talk given on the 17th of Jan 2013 on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.

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  • 1. Swami VivekanandaAn Inspiration

2. Sir William Jones(1746-1794)1784 3. Warren Hastings 4. Mangal Pandey1827-1857 5. World Fair 1893Chicago 6. Jamsetji NassurwanjiTata (1839-1904) 7. Wish 1. Wish 3.Wish 2. Wish 4. 8. Letter from J.N. Tatato Swami Vivekananda1898 9. Maharaja Ajit Singh of Khetri1861-1901 10. Above all beware of compromises. Hold on toyour own principles in weal or woe and neveradjust them to others fads through thegreed of getting supporters. Your Atmanis the support of the Universe whose support do you stand in need of? 11. If a man with an ideal makes athousand mistakes, Im sure thata man without an ideal makes fiftythousand. Therefore it is better to have an ideal. 12. If I had to do my educationover again , and I had any voice in the matter , I wouldnot study facts at all. I woulddevelop the power ofconcentration and detachment,and then with a perfectinstrument I could collect factsat will. 13. If you have assimilatedfive ideas and made them your life and character, you have more educationthan any man who hasgot by heart a whole library. 14. John D. Rockefeller1839-1937 15. If you think that theinfinite power, infiniteknowledge, and indomitableenergy lie within you, and ifyou can bring out that power,you also can be like me. 16. Dr H. SudarshanVivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra (VGKK)