National Youth Day

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National

Youth Day

 

National

Youth Day is celebrated in India

on 12 January on the birthday of Swami Vivekananda. In 1984, the Government

of India declared and decided to observe the birthday of Swami Vivekananda

(12 January, according to the English calendar) as a National Youth Day every

year from 1985 onwards. To quote from the Government of India's communicatkion, 'it was felt

that the philosophy of Swamiji and the ideals for which he lived and worked

could be a great source of inspiration for the Indian Youth.'

 

Words Of

Swami Vivekananda:

 

Children of India, I am

here to speak to you today about some practical things, and my object in

reminding you about the glories of the past is simply this. Many times have I

been told that looking into the past only degenerates and leads to nothing,

and that we should look to the future. That is true. But out of the past is

built the future. Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the

eternal fountains that are behind, and after that, look forward, march

forward and make India

brighter, greater, much higher than she ever was. Our ancestors were great.

We must first recall that. We must learn the elements of our being, the blood

that courses in our veins; we must have faith in that blood and what it did

in the past; and out of that faith and consciousness of past greatness, we

must build an India yet greater than what she has been. There have been

periods of decay and degradation. I do not attach much importance to them; we

all know that. Such periods have been necessary. A mighty tree produces a

beautiful ripe fruit. That fruit falls on the ground, it decays and rots, and

out of that decay springs the root and the future tree, perhaps mightier than

the first one. This period of decay through which we have passed was all the

more necessary. Out of this decay is coming the India of the future; it is

sprouting, its first leaves are already out; and a mighty, gigantic tree, the

Urdhvamula, is here, already beginning to appear; and it is about that that I

am going to speak to you.

 

With the giving up of quarrels all other improvements will come. When the

life-blood is strong and pure, no disease germ can live in that body. Our

life-blood is spirituality. If it flows clear, if it flows strong and pure

and vigorous, everything is right; political, social, any other material

defects, even the poverty of the land, will all be cured if that blood is

pure. For if the disease germ be thrown out, nothing will be able to enter

into the blood.

 

I do not mean to say that other things are not necessary. I do not mean to

say that political or social improvements are not necessary, but what I mean

is this, and I want you to bear it in mind, that they are secondary here and

that spirituality is primary.

 

 

Swami Vivekananda.

(Complete Works Of Swami Viekananda Vol.3)

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A few

heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than

a mob in a century -Swami

Vivekananda.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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