Swami Vivekananda

Views of Swami Vivekananda on Education Swami Vivekananda’s views on Education deals with self development, character development, should build self reliance and confidence, education of masses, medium of instruction, and education for downtrodden people and so on. 1. Education for Physical and Mental Development Physical education helps the child for self-realisation or character building and how to make our body strong. Physical education also helps the child in attaining a complete education which is necessary to develop both the mind and the body. Vivekananda stressed the value of physical education in curriculum. He said, “You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of Gita. You will understand Gita better by your biceps, your muscles a little stronger. You will understand the Upanishads better and the glary of the Atman, when your body stands firm on your feet and you feel yourself as man.” 2. Medium of Instruction Like Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, Vivekananda also emphasised education through the mother tongue.…

Swami Vivekananda who, in words of Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble his Irish devoted disciple), breathed India. He was a personality of multiple facets – a thinker, a philosopher, a saint, a preacher, a leader, a reformer and so on. Very few people know him as a Poet. The English poetry in India brought by the ending years of the nineteenth century has chiefly taken the form of a revival of cultural patriotism, highly necessary for a nation. It also has religious impact on it in the…

According to Swami Vivekananda the Meaning of Education Vivekananda believed a country's future depends on its people; his teachings focused on the development of the mass. He wanted “to set in motion machinery which will bring noblest ideas to the doorstep of even the poorest and the meanest.” Vivekananda believed that the essence of Hinduism was best expressed in the Vedanta philosophy, based on the interpretation of Adi Shankara. He said that no one teaches others, they learn by themselves…

He is a learner at Albert Mission School, a school made by the British which offers criticalness to Christianity, English books and instruction. His life is changed a considerable measure when Rajam - an image of frontier super power - joins the school and he and Rajam get to be companions. The focal subject of the novel is growing up of youthful Swami. He is an unplanned (and sudden), uncontrolled, insidious but then an exceptionally guiltless youngster. His identity is a youngster in the…

followers refer to themselves as “bodied”. For example, an white male would be referred to white bodied and male bodied. This is because followers believe they are spirits/souls residing in a physical body. There are two main goals for ISKCON followers. The first goal is that the individual attempts to reunite his spirit/soul with Krishna, in order to stop the cycle of reincarnation and rise up to heaven. The second goal is to spread the movement around the world and try to get people to convert…

Ancient Stories in Popular Culture George Santayana once said that “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” While Santayana’s quote usually accompanies a discussion about reckless wars and terrible genocides, it can also demonstrate that despite all of our technological and academic advancements, human nature stays the same. Which is why years, decades, even millennia will not change the effect that a great story has on humans. Epic tales of heroism are repeated and…

The quest for Oneness has attracted many a seeker on the path of contemplation through the practice of silence. J Krishnamurti often said: "The mind that enters itself goes on a long pilgrimage from which there is no return." Silence was the defining characteristic of both Mahavira and Buddha's search for meaning — one observed silence for 12 years on his chosen path and the other was exemplified as the silent sage, Sakyamuni, "the silent one of the Sakya tribe". Apart from its religious…

The religion Hinduism, works with three different styles of yoga; Classical, Ashtanga, and Hatha. It also considers yoga to be a philosophical school within its religion. Hinduism has six different schools of astika, those of which also accept the vedas as a way of knowledge. Ashtanga yoga is discussed in the books written by Patanjali. The text written by Patanjali is considered to be the central text of Yoga school in the Hindu philosophy. This style of yoga used to be more commonly referred…

Swami Vivekananda said “Every change is being forced upon us.” In Tally’s world no words could be more true. Pretties and Specials are the second and third books in the Uglies series. Within the trilogy the story follows Tally, a young girl who finds out what is truly happening in her society. In Tally’s futuristic city people undergo an operation on their sixteenth birthday to become a “Pretty” the operation alters their looks and their brains. During the operation a lesion is put in everyone’s…

organisation is service to society and bring about a change in the society and the employees and the volunteers have the common attitude of working towards this objective. Thus YFS is suited to a communal culture. Also YFS has a strong work culture with an intent to serve and experience the joy of giving. The employees and volunteers are highly passionate and motivated with the desire to be change agents in the field of education, health and environment and their aspirations are aligned with…