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The Idea

• "No Nation is great or good, because Parliament enacts this or that, but because its men are great and good"
• "Men, men, these are wanted, everything else will be ready, but strong, vigorous, believing young men, sincere to the backbone, are wanted. A hundred such and the world will become revolutionized. So make men first"
• When there are real men, how long will it take to drive away famines etc., from the land?
• Does man make laws, or do laws make man? Does man make money or money makes man? Be a man first and all things will follow.
• Suppose the government gives you all you need, where are the men who will be able to keep up the things demanded? So make men first
• It is best to work among the youth in who lies our hope
• Be and make, let this be our motto

From these and other similar ideas of Swami Vivekananda, the Mahamandal has been working in Visakhapatnam since 1988 under the guidelines of Akhil Bharat Vivekananda Yuva Mahamandal, Kolkota

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Swadeshi Mantra

O India! With this mere echoing of others, with this base imitation of others, with this dependence on others, this slavish weakness, this vile detestable cruelty - wouldst thou, with these provisions only, scale the highest pinnacle of civilisation and greatness? Wouldst thou attain, by means of thy graceful cowardice, that freedom deserved only by the brave and heroic?

O India! Forget not - that the ideal of thy womanhood is Sita, Savitri, Damayanti; forget not that the God thou worshippest is the great ascetic of ascetics., the all-renouncing Sankar, the Lord of Uma; Forget not - that thy marriage, thy wealth, they life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual happiness; Forget not - that thou are born as a sacrifice to the Mother's altar; Forget not - that thy social order is but the reflex of the Infinite Universal Motherhood; Forget not - that the lower classes, the ignorant, the poor, the illiterate, the cobbler, the sweeper, are thy flesh and blood, thy brothers. Thou brave one, be bold, take courage, be proud that thou art an Indian - and proudly proclaim. " I am an India, every Indian is my brother." Say: "The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother."  Thou, too, clad with but a rag round thy loins proudly proclaim at the top of thy voice: "The Indian is my brother, the Indian is my life, India's gods and goddesses are my God. India's society is the cradle of my infancy, the pleasure-garden of my youth, the sacred heaven, the Varanasi of my old age." Say brother: "The soil of India is my highest heaven, the good of India is my good," and repeat and pray day and night, "O Thou Lord of Gauri, O Thou Mother of the Universe, vouchsafe manliness unto me! O Thou Mother of Strength, take away my weakness, take away my unmanliness, and - make me a MAN!"

- Swami Vivekandanda

Miracle That Obeys You and Self Evaluation Worksheet

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