THE BLAZING BILLIONAIRE

  

 

The world celebrates 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda today. The first young vissionary to address the world- "My Sisters &  Brothers......." 

 Young billionaires of Silicon Valley are respected & emulated. Billionairies are made & unmade with every Forbes list. They have mansions, helicopters et all, but not many would recall them a century after they are no more. But the blazing fervour of this Spiritual Billionaire - Swami Vivekananda - comes but once in a lifetime. 

 He says -

  "Had I lived in Palestine in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with tears but with my heart's blood."

 "My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized.The disciples of all the prophets have allways inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, & at last killed the ideas for the person."

 "Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it." 

 

 "To believe blindly is to degenerate the human soul. Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe anything unquestioningly."

 "Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse."

 "Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through selfless work."

"Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple." 

 

 "Desire, ignorance and inequality - this is the trinity of bondage."

 "Worship of society and popular opinions is idolatry. The soul has no sex, no country no place, no time."

 "As soon as you make a sect, you protest against universal brotherhood."

"So long as millions livein hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them."

 " The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence."

 " WOMEN WILL WORKOUT THEIR DESTINIES - MUCH BETTER, TOO, THAN MEN CAN EVER DO FOR THEM.

ALL THE MISCHIEF TO WOMEN HAS COME BECAUSE MEN UNDERTOOK TO SHAPE THE DESTINY OF WOMEN."

 "Fear is Death, Fear is Sin, Fear is Hell, Fear is Unrighteousness. All the negative thoughts & ideas that are in this world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear."

 "It is fear that is the great cause of misery in this world."

 " The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. "WEAKNESS IS DEATH"