12th January - National Youth Day

United Nations declared Year 1985 as “International Youth Year” and during that time our Government declared Swami Vivekananda as The National Youth Leader and his birthday 12th January will be observed as “National Youth Day”. Since then we are observing 12th January as National Youth Day. ........

• We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.
• My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is to preach the mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.
• I belong as much as to INDIA as to WORLD.
• Bold is my message to the WEST but bolder is my message to the EAST my beloved countrymen.
• My idea that can be put into single words-the high ideal Upanishads to translate in to simple English and scattered them through Out the World so that even a child can understand it.
• If there is one word that you find coming like bomb from in the Upanishads, bursting like a bomb-shell upon the masses of ignorance, it is the word, fearlessness.
• Ye are the children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye divinities on earth- sinners! It is sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel on human nature. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, sprits free, blest and eternals.
• “Men these are wanted, everything else will be ready. But Strong, vigorous, believing young man sincere to the backbone is wanted. A hundred such and the world become revolutionized”.
• Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
• Religion is the idea which is raising the brute into man, and man into God.
• The secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice. To be good and do good - that is the whole of religion.
• Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man.
• Look at the wall.