SWAMIVIVEKANDA

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SWAMI VIVEKANDA

  Born: January 12, 1863, Kolkata, India
  Died: July 4, 1902, Belur, India
  Guru: Ramakrishna
  Philosophy: Modern Vedanta, Raja Yoga

Swami Vivekananda had chosen ‘empower and facilitate’ philosophy over ‘command and control’ long before modern management realized its potential. Trust plays an important part in the process. If the leader does not trust his followers, he will use control instead of empowerment. Swami Vivekananda while exhorting his disciples to the highest levels of work had the fullest trust in them and their abilities. His urge to motivate people around him to aspire for higher levels of performance can be seen from this letter of his to his direct disciple Swami Shuddhananda in 1897. He writes, “…Lastly, you must remember i expect more from my children than from my brethren (his brother disciples). I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than i could ever be. Every one of you must be a giant – must, this is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause – if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.”
This also shows Swamiji’s interpersonal skills and the ability to motivate and develop people. One can even say that Swamiji’s call, “Arise, Awake and stop not till the goal is reached” was nothing but an attempt to empower people en-masse. J Carla Nortcutt had once said, “The goal of many leaders is to get people to think more highly of the leader. The goal of a great leader is to help people to think more highly of themselves.” This is perhaps the best description of Swami Vivekananda, the greatest leader of our times.

List of great contributions of Swami Vivekananda towards India Society:

• He was the first cultural ambassador to the west. He showed that India has much to contribute to world culture.
• He also showed that Science and Religion is not contradictory but complimentary.
• He  gave an identity of who we are and what is Hinduism. He showed the   common bases in different sections of Hinduism. He played a major role   in unification of Hinduism. In words  of sister Nivedita: "..it may be said that when he began to speak it was  of ‘the religious ideas of the Hindus’, but when he ended, Hinduism had  been created."
• Defending  Hinduism  was one of the important work of his life. Missionaries of  west and  pseudo-intellectuals propagated their own understanding of  Hinduism  which were mostly negative in nature. He raised his voice  against this  and clarified the concepts of Hinduism thereby, giving  self-pride to  followers of Hinduism.
Source : (1) http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/narendranath-dutta-2939.php
 (2) http://www.belurmath.org/swamivivekananda.htm
 (3) http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/masters-words/stories-swami-vivekananda- life-inspired/


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