Mahatma Defined by Swami Vivekananda

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Dear All,

 

I was reading the lectures if Swami Vivekananda the other day that I came across his beautiful words "Him I call a Mahatma whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratman".

How Strange that he had given a definition for Mahatma and the Great Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi actually lived those words and he came to be called a Mahatma.

In Bhavabhuti's Ramayana, Rama says " Great men speak Truth, but Whatever the Rishis speak it becomes Truth".

Thus Swamiji was a great Rishi and his words came true as Bhavabhuti says in Mahatma Gandhi.

 

Regards,

S.KarthikVandemataram

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Also, one remembers Swamiji's wonderful prediction in the

lecture " The future of India " which he delivered at Madras:

 

" It is will that is the power. It is the man of strong will that

throws, as it were, a halo round him and brings all other people to

the same state of vibration as he has in his own mind. Such

gigantic men do appear. And what is the idea? When a powerful

individual appears, his personality infuses his thoughts into us,

and many of us come to have the same thoughts, and thus we become

powerful. Why is it that organizations are so powerful? Do not say

organization is material. Why is it, to take a case in point, that

forty millions of Englishmen rule three hundred millions of people

here? What is the psychological explanation? These forty millions

put their wills together and that means infinite power, and you

three hundred millions have a will each separate from the other.

Therefore to make a great future India, the whole secret lies in

organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills. "

 

We saw such a unity and co-ordination of will across India when

Gandhiji emerged !!

 

With prayers,

Nikhil.