#swami vivekananda

I really hate to be the one who must point this out, but today, all over the world, people are celebrating the 125th Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s famous 1893 Chicago Speech.

The problem is, this is not the correct date.  The correct date is September 11, 2018.  I guess people get so excited about it that they don’t do the simple math required to figure out the correct date:

1893 + 125 = 2018

Please spread this before it becomes a total embarrassment for many people.

P.S. I still think it is one of the best speeches (if not the best) ever given.

m0th3rb0n3:

m0th3rb0n3:

“Many times I have been in the jaws of death, starving, footsore, and weary; for days and days I had no food, and often could walk no further; I would sink down under a tree, and life would seem to be ebbing away. I could not speak, I could scarcely think, but at last the mind reverted to the idea: ‘I have no fear nor death; never was I born, never did I die; I never hunger or thirst. I am It! I am It! The whole of nature cannot crush me; it is my servant. Assert thy strength, thou Lord of lords and God of gods! Regain thy lost empire! Arise and walk and stop not!’ And I would rise up, reinvigorated; and here I am today, living! Thus, whenever darkness comes, assert the reality and everything adverse must vanish. For after all, it is but a dream. Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Maya. Fear not, and it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies.”

- Swami Vivekananda, Practical Vedanta