How Swami Vivekananda change my life. - Sandeep Tonde

Few years ago a friend of mine gave me small book of Swami Vivekananda called "Swami Vivekananda says." 

It was a Marathi book and the first sentence I read was "Arise, Awake, & stop not till the goal is reached." When I started the book with such a powerful thought, I fell in love with that great book of our great Swamiji. In that book Swamiji expressed many Powerful & Inspirational thoughts, especially for youth. Some of them are: "You are the creator of your destiny", "Strength is life Weakness is death", "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself", "If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught& practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished", "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life, think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is way to success."

 

There were many more thoughts with these. In that book the publisher gave the address of The Ramakrishna Math, Pune. One day I Visited the Ramakrishna Math. When I saw the Math first time, I said to myself, "What a lovely place, & how idiot was I that didn't know about the place before." After that I became a regular visitor of Math. Later I also knew about the  Swamiji's Spritual Guru Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa & the World's Holy Mother Sarada Maa. I Also met the monks in that Math. Now I feel very blessed that Swami Vivekananda is my ideal & recommend all to read His books and follow His thoughts. He is the greatest Youth icon & the spiritual Master world has ever produced.
Jai Swamiji.

Author : Sandeep Tonde