It includes views of Swami Vivekananda on different aspects of life and education...

1. Swami Vivekananda
Dr. Neelam Sharma
nsharma1965@rediffmail.com
Asstt. Prof. Ramgarhia College of Education
Phagwara, Punjab.

2. Addressing Parliament of religion
in
Chicago, USA

3. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA:
Foremost Spiritual Leader of
Modern Era
1863-1902
A Spiritualist and Idealist Thinker

4. • Born- January 12, 1863 in Calcutta on Makara
Sankakaranti Day
• Birth Name: Narendranath Datta
• Father: Sri Visvanath Datta, A very Successful and
distinguished Lawyer
• Mother: Bhuvaneshari Devi, A very pious Lady
• Education: Bachelor Arts Degree in 1884 from Scottish
Church college Calcutta
• Meeting with Guru Sri Rama Krishna= 1881
(Age 18 years)
• 11th
Sept. 1893: Address at Parliament of Religions,
Chicago, USA
• Mahasamadhi: July 04, 1902

5. He gave the concept of:
Gyan Yog
Bhakti Yog
Karma Yog
Raja Yog

6. Philosophy of Life: To become
Fearless through Struggle and Serve
humanity with Peace
• “ Be a hero, always say, ‘ I have no fear’. Tell
this to everybody- ‘ Have no Fear.’
• Fear is Sin, Fear is Hell.
• Fear is unrighteousness, Fear is wrong life”

7. Philosophy of Education
“ All knowledge and all powers are within; What
we call power; secrets of nature and force all
within. All knowledge comes from human soul.
Man manifests knowledge, discovers it with
himself, which is pre-existing through
ETERNITY.”

8. • All Learning is Self Learning.
• Each living being is a Soul.
• The external teacher only guides and motivate
the learning.
• Hidden treasure of knowledge lies dormant
within self.
• Atman is true reality  Man is incarnation of
God.

9. What Real Education is ?
Real Education Develops
State of fearlessness
Character
Mental Power
Self Confidence
Self Reliance
Intelligence

10. “ It is man-making religion that we want;
It is man-making theories that we want
It is man-making education all round that we want”
Concept of Universal Religion
Harmony
Peace

11. Religion
means
Realization
“Not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories; It is the
whole soul becoming changed into what it
believes.”

12. Real Basis of life: Ethics & Morality
“No Nation is great & good;
because its parliament enacts this or that,
but its because
its men are great and good”

13. Meaning of Education
“ Education is the manifestation of the perfection
already in man. We must have life -building, man-
making, Character making, assimilation of ideas. If
education is identical with information, the libraries
are the greatest sages of the world & encyclopedia
are the rishies.”
“We want that education by which character is
formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is
expanded & by which one can stand on one’s own
feet.”

14. “If you really want to judge the
Character of man, look not at his
great performances. Watch a man do
his most common actions. He alone is
really great, whose Character is
great always.”

15. Aims of Education
Education For
Physical Development
Spirit of renunciation
Attaining Self sufficiency
Developing feeling of Brotherhood
Serving Humanity
Developing Spiritual Life
Making people self reliant
Character building

16. Curriculum= 3 parts
a) Spiritual perfection: Religion, Philosophy,
Upanishads, Puranas Lore, Company of Saints
& their preaching.
b) For material advancement & prosperity:
Languages, Geography, service, Political
Science, Economics, Psychology, Art,
Agriculture & technical subjects.
c) For Physical Development: Games, Sports,
Physical Exercise e.g. Yoga

17. Medium of Instruction
a) Mother Language
b) Regional Language
c) Common Language to keep country united
d) Sanskrit: it is the source of all Indian
languages & a repository of all inherited
knowledge.

18. Methods of teaching
• Lectures, discussions, Self experience (Travels)
• Developing mind by concentration, meditation (control
over external and internal senses) & Yoga.
• Individual guidance by teacher.
• Positive suggestions (No Negativity)
• Concrete to Abstract

19. Yoga
Body Mind Soul

20. Role of Teacher
• Love, affection, empathy
• Dedication, commitment, understanding of scriptures & value
based life
• To motivate, demonstrate & persuade.
• Friend, philosopher and guide
4 conditions for a teacher
a) Perfectly Pure
b) Know the spirit of scriptures, not only bookish knowledge
c) Love & affection approachable, friend
d) Help the child, not teach him

21. • Our real nature is divine.
• We are primarily consciousness and
the individual soul is part of the
cosmic consciousness.
• We are born in this world to realize
the divinity.
Vedanta
(‘Veda’ meaning wisdom) (‘anta’ meaning end)
supreme wisdom

22. Message to Youth
“ We are what our thoughts have made us;
So take care about what you think
words are secondary;
Thoughts live; they travel far.”

23. The way to ‘success’
“Take up one idea
make that one idea your life
think of it, dreams of it live on that idea.
Let the brain, muscle, nerves; every part of your
body be full of that idea.”

24. “ Stand up, be bold, be strong.
Take the whole responsibility on your own
shoulders
and
know that you are the creator of your own
destiny.”

25. “The old religion said that he was an atheist
who does not believe in
GOD
The new religion says that he is an atheist who
does not
believe in himself”

26. What great personalities said about
Swami Ji.
Mahatma Gandhi: “ Surely, Vivekananda does not need introduction
from anybody; they make their own irresistible appeal”
R.N.Tagore: “ if you want to know India, study Vivekananda.
In him, everything is positive and nothing negative.”
Sri Aurobindo:” Behold,Vivekananda still lives in the soul of his mother india
and in the souls of his children.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak: S. Vivekananda is a person of the strature
of Sankaracharya.
Jawahar Lal Nehru: Vivekananda was a fine figure of a man, imposing full of
poise & dignity, sure of himself and his mission.
Subhash Chander Bose: Vivekananda was so great, so profound,
so complex . If he had been alive,
I would have been at his feet.

27. “Women – I should very much like our woman to have your intellectuality,
but not if it must be at the cost of purity.”
“In the West its ideal is wife, in India in the mother”
All nations have attained greatness by paying proper respect to women.
That country and that nation which do not respect women have never become great,
nor will ever be in future

28. “There is no chance of the welfare of the world
unless the condition of women is improved. It
is not possible for a bird to fly on – Swami
Vivekananda”
Vivekananda strongly reasoned the cause of such degradation
of Indian women “ The principal reason why our race has so
degenerated is that we had no respect for these living images
of Shakti. Manu says,” Where women are respected, there
the Gods delight, and where they are not, there all work
and efforts come to naught.’’ There is no hope of rise for
that family or country where they live in sadness. The Swami
ji was particularly worried about the degradation of women in
India.

29. Thanks
&
Jai Bharat