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All rights are Booklet printed from reserved. No part of this Study Material may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise by any person or organization (including program participants) without the prior permission of Illumine Knowledge Resources Pvt. Ltd. UNIT 1: Who is a Contributor? ...Values + Effectiveness Who are Contributors? How are they fundamentally different from Non-contributors in their overall approach to work, to other human beings, to society as a whole? Explore these ideas in this unit. Swami Vivekananda speaks to you pg. 2-5 Concept Exploration pg. 6-11 Concept Application pg. 12-23 Field Work (projects) pg. 24 UNIT 1: WHO IS A CONTRIBUTOR? Swami Vivekananda speaks to you “What is personality?” Life Snapshot 1 The young Narendranath Dutta (later Swami Vivekananda) A man comes; you know he is very learned, his “language is beautiful, and he speaks to you by the hour; but he does not make any impression. Another man comes, and he speaks a few words, not well arranged, ungrammatical perhaps; all the same, he makes an immense impression. Many of you have seen that. So it is evident that words alone cannot always produce an impression. Words, even thoughts contribute only one-third of the Ancestral home of Swami infuence in making an impression, the man, two- Vivekananda in North Kolkata thirds. What you call the personal magnetism of Narendranath, was known for his keen intellect and prodigious memory. He the man — that is what goes out and impresses you. acquired a thorough grasp of various subjects during his school and college Life Snapshot 2 years, especially Western logic, philosophy and history. He questioned the validity of superstitious customs and Meeting his Guru, Sri Ramakrishna discrimination based on caste and refused to accept anything without rational proof and pragmatic test. In our families there are the heads; some of “them are successful, others are not. Why? We complain of others in our failures. Te moment I am unsuccessful, I say, so-and-so is the cause of the failure. In failure, one does not like to confess one’s own faults and weaknesses. Each person tries to hold himself faultless and lay the Dakshineshwar Temple, Kolkata blame upon somebody or something else, or In his college years, Narendra went about asking many religious leaders of the time even on bad luck. When heads of families fail, whether they had a direct experience of they should ask themselves, why it is that some God, but could not get answers which satisfied him. His quest brought him persons manage a family so well and others do finally to Sri Ramakrishna. Thus began a not. Ten you will fnd that the diference is guru-disciple relationship which is quite unique in the history of spiritual masters. owing to the man — his presence, his personality. 2 0F 25 © NOVEMBER 2011; ALL COPYRIGHTS ARE OWNED BY ILLUMINE KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES PVT. LTD. | STUDY BOOKLET SWAMI VIVEKANANDA CONTRIBUTOR PERSONALITY PROGRAM Life Snapshot 3 Wandering Years Coming to great leaders of mankind, we always “fnd that it was the personality of the man that counted. Now, take all the great authors of In 1891, the Swami embarked on a 2-year the past, the great thinkers. Really speaking, long journey of exploration and discovery how many thoughts have they thought? Take of India. During these years, a mission grew in him. He said, “I have travelled all all the writings that have been lef to us by the over India. But alas, it was agony to me, past leaders of mankind; take each one of their my brothers, to see with my own eyes the terrible poverty and misery of the masses, books and appraise them. Te real thoughts, and I could not restrain my tears! It is now my firm conviction that it is futile to preach new and genuine, that have been thought in this religion amongst them without first trying to world up to this time, amount to only a handful. remove their poverty and their suffering...” Life Snapshot 4 At the Parliament of Religions, Chicago Read in their books the thoughts they have lef “ to us. Te authors do not appear to be giants to us, and yet we know that they were great giants in their days. What made them so? Not simply the thoughts they thought, neither the books they wrote, nor the speeches they made, it was something In 1893, Swami Vivekananda made his else that is now gone, that is their personality. As debut on the world stage when he opened I have already remarked, the personality of the his first short speech at the Parliament. His first five words – “Sisters and Brothers man is two-thirds, and his intellect, his words, are of America ...” – resulted in a standing but one-third. It is the real man, the personality ovation of several minutes by nearly six thousand present there. From being a of the man, that runs through us. Our actions are wandering monk with no credentials to speak at the Parliament, the Swami was but efects. Actions must come when the man lionized by the press as an “Orator by is there; the efect is bound to follow the cause. divine right” at the end of his lectures. © NOVEMBER 2011; ALL COPYRIGHTS ARE OWNED BY ILLUMINE KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES PVT. LTD. | STUDY BOOKLET 3 OF 25 UNIT 1: WHO IS A CONTRIBUTOR? Life Snapshot 5 Travels in America & England Te ideal of all education, all training, should “ be this man-making. But, instead of that, we are always trying to polish up the outside. What use in polishing up the outside when there is no inside? Te end and aim of all training is to make the man grow. Te man who infuences, who throws The Swami’s lectures took the West by storm. Between 1893 to 1896, Swami his magic, as it were, upon his fellow-beings, is a Vivekananda laid the foundations of dynamo of power, and when that man is ready, Vedanta in America and England. England contributed to him very valuable friends he can do anything and everything he likes; that and disciples who were to play a very personality put upon anything will make it work. important role in his work in India. Life Snapshot 6 Rousing Reception in India Now, we see that though this is a fact, no “ physical laws that we know of will explain this. How can we explain it by chemical and physical knowledge? How much of oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, how many molecules in diferent positions, and how many cells, etc., etc. can explain this mysterious personality? And we still see, it is a fact, and not only that, it is the real The home-coming of the Swami was a great event in the history of Modern India, for man; and it is that man that lives and moves and a united India rose to do him honour. For works, it is that man that infuences, moves his about 4 years the Indian public had been made aware that the Swami was doing the fellow-beings, and passes out, and his intellect great work of presenting and interpreting the glories of the Eternal Religion and to carry her and books and works are but traces lef behind ... banner throughout the Western nations. 4 0F 25 © NOVEMBER 2011; ALL COPYRIGHTS ARE OWNED BY ILLUMINE KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES PVT. LTD. | STUDY BOOKLET SWAMI VIVEKANANDA CONTRIBUTOR PERSONALITY PROGRAM Life Snapshot 7 Lectures from Colombo to Almora ... Tink of this. Compare the great teachers “ of religion with the great philosophers. Te philosophers scarcely infuenced anybody’s inner man, and yet they wrote most marvellous books. Te religious teachers, on the other hand, moved countries in their lifetime. Te diference was made by personality. In the philosopher it is a faint personality that infuences; in the great prophets it is tremendous. In the former we touch the intellect, in the latter we touch life. In the one case, it is simply a chemical process, putting certain chemical ingredients together which may gradually combine and under proper circumstances bring out a fash of light or may fail. In the other, it is like Swami Vivekananda once again crossed a torch that goes round quickly, lighting others. the land of India from the South to the North, as he had done formerly as a wandering monk. His lectures in Madras, about half Life Snapshot 8 a dozen in number, form the core of his message to India. He exhorted Indians not Impact on India’s Leaders to condemn their social past and take to a life of imitation of the West. Nor should they “I have gone through his works merely exhalt the past and refuse to move very thoroughly, and after having forward. A society which combines Indian gone through them, the love that spirituality with the Western technical I had for my country became a advancement is the ideal held forth before thousand-fold.” his countrymen. – Mahatma Gandhi “Swami Vivekananda harmonized the East and the West, religion Each one can grow and strengthen his and science, past and present. “personality. Tis is one of the great practical And that is why he is great. Our countrymen have gained things, and this is the secret of all education. unprecedented self-respect, self- Tis has a universal application. In the life reliance and self-assertion from his teachings.” of the householder, in the life of the poor, – Subhash Chandra Bose the rich, the man of business, the spiritual “Where can you find a man like man, in every one’s life, it is a great thing, him? Study what he wrote, and learn from his teachings, for if you the strengthening of this personality… do, you will gain immense strength. Take advantage of the fountain of wisdom, of Spirit, and of fire that Excerpt from a talk “The Powers of the Mind” delivered at flowed through Vivekananda!” Los Angeles, California, January 8, 1900 – Jawaharlal Nehru © NOVEMBER 2011; ALL COPYRIGHTS ARE OWNED BY ILLUMINE KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES PVT. LTD. | STUDY BOOKLET 5 OF 25