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‎"If Pakistan does not return the head of martyred soldier Hemraj, India should get at least ten heads from the other side," said BJP leader Sushma Swarj. 10 heads for a head; an eye for an eye, will this strategy work towards a peaceful co-existence? Or do you agree with leader?

Hindus spend their lives with the name of the Ganga on their lips, they die immersed in the waters of the Ganga, people from far off places take away Ganga water with them, keep it carefully in copper vessels, and sip drops of it on holy festive occasions. ... The Gita and the sacred waters of the Ganga constitute the Hinduism of the Hindus.~Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda is generally approached as a patriot-­monk  par excellence.  He is simply credited with revealing the soul of India to the Western world. He is mostly regarded as a spokesman of Hinduism. The spiritual dimension of his personality seems to have obviously got the better of the social. It looks as though the “Vivekananda” was drowned under the heavy weight of the “Swami”. Although he was a man of religion and meditation, Viveka­nanda was all for activity that would lead to increase in production and the removal of poverty. He always said with his Guru, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, that, “religion is not for empty stomachs.” He shocked people out of their self-com­placency and plunged them into action. Thus, he influenced the course of life in modern India by stimulating the Rajasic qualities in the Indian people, and getting them to set about the task of betterment of their material conditions of life rather than get lost in a soporific religion that produce...

Swami Vivekananda enjoyed smoking. In the days of his pilgrimage, when he used to walk along the streets of India, here, there and elsewhere, smoking was his great avocation. One evening, as Vivekananda was walking along a village street in northern India, he came to a small cottage where an old man was smoking an Indian hookah. Vivekananda had a tremendous desire to smoke, and he asked the old man if he would give him his pipe.” The man said, “Oh, Swami, I am a scavenger, I am an untouchable. How can I give you my hookah? How will you smoke from the hookah of an untouchable? I am so happy to see you. You are so handsome, so spirited. I am so fortunate to see you. But, alas, I come from an untouchable family.” Vivekananda felt sorry that the old man was an untouchable. He said to him, “I am sorry, I am sorry. Alas, I won’t be able to smoke.” Vivekananda left him and continued walking. In a few minutes he felt miserable. He said to himself, “What am I doing? What am I doing?...

STAFF REPORTER    Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith Swami Lakshmidharananda addressing the National Seminar on '' Social Changes In India and Swami Vivekananda in Puducherry on Thursday. Photo: T. Singaravelou TOPICS India Puducherry religion and belief philosophy His 150th birth anniversary observed with a seminar on ‘Social Changes in India and Swami Vivekananda’ In order to celebrate the 150 birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, the History Department of the Kanchi Mamunivar Centre for Post Graduate Studies (Autonomous) conducted an ICHR-UGC National Seminar on ‘Social Changes in India and Swami Vivekananda’. Speaking at the seminar, Swami Lakshmidharananda of the Ramakrishna Mission, Vidyapith elaborated how Swami Vivekananda supported women in the society. He strongly believed that the women should be educated and that any decision regarding the welfare of widows and women should be in the hands of the women themselves. “Vivekananda was not ...

The caste system promotes good social behaviour because - like feudalism - it sets out clear expectations of how members of each caste should behave. There is no argument about how a Brahmin should behave, how an untouchable should behave, etc., because these are clearly spelled out. Punishments are set out, but upper classes are held to a higher standard and stricter punishment; because they are expected to know better.  The caste system also eliminates bad behaviour that comes from inappropriate ambition - eg., People of no true talent/ability/intelligence who steal or do drugs, to become wealthy, and leave their social class. The caste system prevents such people from leaving their social class. Finally, the caste system sets out concrete versions of how you will be rewarded after death, for living a good, virtuous life. For comparison, Christians/Muslims have a description of heaven they must take on faith; Hindus can see with their own eyes what will happen if they live a vir...