Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 67 (8 Mar)

What we think, that our body becomes. Everything is manufactured by thought, and thus we are the manufacturers of our own lives. We alone are responsible for whatever we do.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 8

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 66 (7 Mar)

 Hold on to the ideal. March on! Do not look back upon little mistakes and things. In this battlefield of ours, the dust of mistakes must be raised. Those who are so thin-skinned that they cannot bear the dust let them get out of the ranks.

- Swami Vivekanand, Vol. 5

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 65 (6 Mar)

Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength!

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 6, 

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 64 (5 Mar)

Weak he may be in the beginning, is sure to reach the goal at the end if he assiduously applies himself to gain it.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 4

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 63 (4 Mar)

Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of may, give it to all.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 3

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 62 (3 Mar)

Take care! Beware of everything that is untrue; stick to truth and we shall succeed, maybe slowly, but surely. Work on as if I never existed. Work as if on each of you depended the whole work.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 4

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 61 (2 Mar)

"It is the coward and the fool who says, 'This is fate' - so says the Sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says, "I will make my fate".

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 8

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 60 (1 Mar)

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.
- The Complete Works, Vol. 8

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 59 (28 Feb)

All virtuous actions bring joy, and all vicious actions bring pain.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 1

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 58 (27 Feb)

Be obedient and eternally faithful to the causes of truth, humanity and your country, and you will move the world.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 5

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 57 (26 Feb)

The difference between God and the devil is nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 1

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 56 (25 Feb)

Do not spend your energy in talking, but meditate in silence. Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 7

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 55 (24 Feb)

You have in you all and a thousand times more than is in all the boods. Never lose faith in yourself, you can do anything in this universe. Never weaken, all power is yours.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 7

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 54 (23 Feb)

Do not repent, do not brood over past deeds, and do not remember your good deeds; be free. You cannot undo, the effect must come, face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 7

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 53 (22 Feb)

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 5

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 52 (21 Feb)

Faith, faith, faith in ourselve, faith faith in God - this is the secret of greatness.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 3

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 51 (20 Feb)

Have infinite patience, and success is your.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 4

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 50 (19 Feb)

Proclaim to the whole world trumpet voice "There is no sin in thee, there is no misery in thee; thou art the reservoir of omnipotent power. Arise, awake, and manifest the Divinity within!"

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 4

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 49 (18 Feb)

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol.

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 48 (17 Feb)

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 2

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 47 (16 Feb)

It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 2

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 46 (15 Feb)

My child, what i want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made. Strength, manhood, kshatra-virya + Brahma-teja ... this I want. 

- Swami Vivekanand 

The Complete Works, Vol. 5

My ज्योतिर्लिंग trips

Ghrishneshwar       1985
Bhimashankar        1998 & 2017
Rameshwaram        2002
Somnath                 2016
Mahakaleshwar      2018
Omkareshwar 2018
Vishwanath ?
Kedarnath ?
Mallikarjun ?
Traimbakeshwar ?
Nageshwar ?
Vaidyanath ?

Mathura 1998
Ayodhya ? 

Suresh Shenoy - the greatest person I ever worked with

I came to know this morning that Suresh Shenoy passed away. I am shocked. I don’t have words to express my sorrow. It is hard to believe that I will never ever get an opportunity to meet him. My eyes are moist as many thoughts pass my mind. Even in this period of Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, when I have lost so many close relatives, Suresh Shenoy's passing away will hurt more than anything else. 

Suresh Shenoy was my manager for only 11 months. And yet how he touched my life!! How is it that in such a short period of time he influenced my life so much, in such a positive way. In last 15 years, I only spoke to him once (in 2016) on phone. The last I had met him was on the day of leaving i2 in 2006, when we met at a coffee shop. 

For me Suresh Shenoy was the proof of the existence of ईश्वर! And the proof that on some rare occasions ईश्वर intervenes in the lives of the men, and answers sincere prayers of a deserving भक्त. 

At the end of MBA education, while all my friends were praying for jobs in great companies, all I asked ईश्वर was a great manager to work for. And ईश्वर sent Suresh Shenoy in my life!! I had zero influence on choosing Suresh Shenoy as my manager. It was ईश्वर’s choice. And He could not have selected a greater human being and a greater professional than Suresh Shenoy. I thank ईश्वर for making people like Suresh Shenoy, and bringing them in our lives to set an example for us common mortals. 

The only real tribute to Suresh Shenoy would be to strive to become a good human being and a good professional like him. I pray that I may develop some of the great qualities that Suresh Shenoy so naturally demonstrated. I can never really become a Suresh Shenoy; not in this life. But even if I develop a small fraction of the greatness that Suresh Shenoy personified, I would consider myself as accomplished. 

PS: 

हे ईश्वर, why did you have to take him away from us to remind us of his greatness? :_(  

PPS:

I always desired to meet Suresh Shenoy sometime. I never thought something like this would happen. My wish to meet him will remain forever unfulfilled.

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 45 (14 Feb)

He who has the slightest desire for worldly pleasures, even a shred of some such craving, will feel frightened at the thought of the path you are going to tread.

 - Swami Vivekanand
The Complete Works, Vol. 6

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 44 (13 Feb)

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 1

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 43 (12 Feb)

It is not the receiver that is blessed, but it is the giver.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 1

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 42 (11 Feb)

Never mind failures; tehy are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them?

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 2

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 41 (10 Feb)

Imitation, cowardly imitation, never makes for progress.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 3

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 40 (9 Feb)

All the secret of success is there; to pay as much attention to the means as to the end.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 2

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 39 (8 Feb)

One ounce of practice is worth twenty thousand tons of big talk.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 3

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 38 (7 Feb)

You know little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 2

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 37 (6 Feb)

Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 8

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 36 (5 Feb)

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strenght.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 2

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 35 (4 Feb)

In eating, dressing, or lying, in singing or playing, in enjoyment or disease, always manifest the highest moral courage. If you can build your character after such an ideal, then a thousand others will follow you.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 34 (3 Feb)

The more longing grows, the more will the cloud of obstacles be dispelled, and stronger will faith be established.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 33 (2 Feb)

Truth, purity and unselfishness - wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 4

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 32 (1 Feb)

Purify yourself first, and the world is bound to be purified then.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 1

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 31 (31 Jan)

 The mind incontrolled and unguided will drag us down forever - rend us, kill us; and the mind controlled and guided will save us, free us.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 6.

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 30

 We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 5

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 29

 You have to be practical in all spheres of work. The whole country has been ruined by masses of theories.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 7

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 28

 The history of the world is that of men of faith, men of deep pure character. We need to have three things: the heart to feel, the brain to conceive, the hand to work.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 6

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 27

 Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and above all, perfect obedience - these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 6.

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 26

 Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 5.

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 25

 Despondency is not religion. By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 4.

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 24

 The Gita is like a bouquet composed of beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 2

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 23

 All misery and pain come from attachment.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 2

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 22

 Whatever you do sincerely is good for you. Even the least thing well done brings marvellous results; therefore let everyone do what little he can.

- Swami Vivekanand 

The Complete Works, Vol. 3

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 21

 The pleasure of the Self is what the world calls religion. The more our bliss within, the more spiritual we are. Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 8

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 20

 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. All the strength and succour you want is within yourself.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 2