Siddha Medicine -
Ardent lover of India, here is a quote from Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore: If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him, there is nothing negative, everything positive. His inspirational words have moved millions of Indians and are still inspiring the people of the world at large. He declared the Vedic call: Charaivethi; charaivethi; charaivethi meaning March on; March on; March on; Stop not till the goal is reached! He defined manhood thus: They alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive! He assured the mankind thus: �Work unto death�I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes�wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better, to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!� Mahatma Gandhi visited Belur, Kolkata in 1923 during the birthday celebration of Swami Vivekananda and said: �I have come here to pay my homage and respect to the revered memory of Swami Vivekananda, whose birthday is being celebrated today. I have gone through his works very thoroughly and after having gone through them, the love that I had for my country became a thousand-fold. I ask you, young men, not to go away empty handed without imbibing something of the sprit of the place where Swami Vivekananda lived and died�. Swami Vivekananda�s relationship with Americans is unique. �Columbus had discovered the soil of America, but Vivekananda her soul�, said the famous writer Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. Romain Rolland, the great scholar has said: �I cannot touch these sayings of Swami Vivekananda, scattered as they are through the pages of books at thirty year�s distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero.� Men of the world, read Swami Vivekananda in order to understand India and the real YOU.By Santhanam Nagarajan.