YOUTH INSPIRATION

 SRI SRI SARASVATI

1. TEN GOLDEN POINTS FOR STUDENTS TO SUCCEED (See Below):

2. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA'S SECRET OF SUCCESS (See Below):

3. PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT FOR YOUTH (See Below):

MAY GODDESS OF LEARNING SRI SARASVATI BLESS YOU.

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1. TEN GOLDEN POINTS FOR STUDENTS TO SUCCEED:

Dear students, here are ten Golden Points to bring success in life. Best of luck.

1. “Take one idea. Make that one idea your life; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, and every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” says Swami Vivekananda. You must fix short term as well as long term goals of your life and give direction to your mind. Keep in mind what Swami Vivekananda said: “Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached”.

2. Swami Vivekananda wanted young men to have ‘muscles of iron and nerves of steel’. So you should do vigorous physical exercise daily and also take nutritious food to make your body strong. It is said that healthy mind is in healthy body.

3. Pray to God and study scriptures like the Gita, Gospel etc. and also read life stories of great personalities like Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi etc., to draw inspiration.

4. Have tremendous faith in yourself and God. Develop your self- confidence. Believe that all the Power is within you. Say yourself: ‘I am a child of God. I can do any thing and every thing.’ 


5. Daily practice Meditation and chant Gayatri mantra [CLICK BELOW VIDEO TO LISTEN GAYATRI MANTRA] in the morning and evening to increase your concentration and will power bring greater success in you life.

GAYATRI MANTRA

6. Know that study is your Swadharma and fulfilling it properly is a way of worshipping God.

7. Concentrate on your studies and try your best to achieve the highest Goal of life. Swami Vivekananda says: "Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man.”

8. Cultivate your special talents like art, music, singing, dancing, writing of articles, stories etc. that is prominent in you. It is necessary to find a channel for your creativity in a useful and productive way.

9. At any cost avoid bad company, literature etc. and select some one to share your feelings, joys and sorrows of your life. Do not spend too much time for medias and entertainments.

10. Do not forget the golden words: “Early to bed and early to rise make man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Prepare a Daily Routine and follow it sincerely.

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2. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA'S SECRET OF SUCCESS:

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Swami Vivekananda, the enchanter and inspirer of youth reveals the secret of success. One who reads his inspiring words will find a way to come over his/her failures and achieve great heights in life. Being an ideal for youth, his birthday is celebrated as National Youth Day by the Government of India.   

“One of the greatest lessons I have learnt in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end… It appears to me that all the secret of success is to pay as much attention to the means as to the end.

“Our great defect in life is that we are so much drawn to the ideal, the goal is so much more enchanting, so much more alluring, so much bigger in our mental horizon, that we lose sight of the details altogether.

“But whenever failure comes, if we analyse it critically, in ninety-nine per cent of cases we shall find that it was because we did not pay attention to the means. Proper attention to the finishing, strengthening, of the means is what we need. With the means all right, the end must come. We forget that it is the cause that produces the effect; the effect cannot come by itself; and unless the causes are exact, proper, and powerful, the effect will not be produced. Once the ideal is chosen and the means determined, we may almost let go the ideal, because we are sure it will be there, when the means are perfected. When the cause is there, there is no more difficulty about the effect, the effect is bound to come. If we take care of the cause, the effect will take care of itself. The realization of the ideal is the effect. The means are the cause: attention to the means, therefore, is the great secret of life.”

SOURCE: ‘The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda.’[Click] 

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3. PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT FOR YOUTH:

                                                                              

What is personality?

It means the whole nature or character of a person. Then, what is character? Actually every action and thought leaves an impression in the mind. These impressions mould our behavior. The sum total of all these impressions determines our character. It is obvious that the past thoughts and actions determined the present character and our present thoughts and actions will mould our future character. This is the key principle in personality development.

Five Dimensions of our Personality:

 “Each soul is potentially divine.”  This divine core of our personality  is covered  by five dimensions.

1. Physical dimension which consists of body and senses.

2. Energy(Prana) dimension which performs digestion, blood circulation, breathing, excretion etc.,

3. Mental dimension characterized by the activities of three faculties of mind viz. thinking, feeling and willing.

4. Intellectual dimension characterized by the determinative faculty in a person the seat of discrimination and will power.

5. Blissful dimension experienced as bliss in deep sleep.

Personality development :

Each succeeding dimension is subtler than the preceding one and pervades it. Personality development implies progressive identification with higher dimensions of personality.

Development involves struggle with one’s lower mind characterized by old bad habits and impressions. The less we identify with the lower mind and the more we identify with the higher mind and exercise our discriminative faculty- buddhi then the more developed will be our personality. This involves struggle to cultivate good habits and by that overcome bad habits. This struggle is the greatest of all struggles in that it makes us civilized in the real sense of the term by manifesting our divinity and thereby our hidden perfection as Swami Vivekananda says “Civilization is the manifestation of divinity in man”

Essential Qualities for Personality Development:

1.  Faith in Oneself:

First faith in oneself then Faith in God is the secret of one’s success. If one believes that one’s real nature is the spirit  - not the body and mind complex – one will be better personality with stronger character.

2.   Develop Good Character:

Always try to think positive thoughts and over come bad impressions. Swami Vivekananda shows the way for good character: ‘ Go on doing good, thinking holy thoughts continuously, that is the only way to suppress base impressions... Character is repeated habits and repeated habits alone can transform character.’

3.  Steadfastness:

One should stand firm in his aims in the face of failures or mistakes. We should develop our will power. Swami insists to make one more attempt even after thousand failures.

4.  Self-Reliance:

Man is maker of his own destiny. All power is within. Swami Vivekananda says: ‘ We are responsible for what  we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

5.  Harmonious Development:

One should feel intensely the miseries and sorrows of the world and also find the means to remedy them. Then one is said to be mahatman (great soul). Swami Vivekananda says: “What we want is to see the man who is harmoniously developed… great in heart, great in mind, (great in deed)… Such a combination of head, heart, and hand is what we want.” 

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