Inspiration for young people.

I'm happy to be here and distribute prizes for recitation and speech competitions. I congratulate those who have won these rewards on their achievements. The students who won prizes and many others who competed for them had the great opportunity of reading some of the writings of Swami Vivekananda's life and teachings have prepared us for the new age of freedom in which we live . They tell us how best we can consolidate the freedom we have recently won. He was one of the great leaders of the Indian Renaissance.

Like all the great teachers of India .

Vivekananda did not profess to be the formulator of a new system of thought.

he interpreted for us and the world India's religious consciousness , the treasures of her past . His writings and speeches are all fortified by quotation from the Indian scriptures and the life and saying of his great master , that transcendent religious genius , Shri Ramakrishna.

In the short time at my disposal it will not be possible for me to speak on more than one or two aspects of Vivekananda's teaching.

The two dominant features of our age are science and democracy.

They have come to stay . We can't ask educated people to accept the deliverances of faith with out rational evidence. Whatever we are called upon to accept must be justified and supported by reason . Otherwise our religious beliefs will be reduced to wishful thinking. Morden man must learn to live with a religion which commends itself to his intellectual conscience, to the spirit science. Besides, religion should be sustaining faith of democracy, or race. cannot commend itself to us to day.

If we are passing through a period of the eclipse of religion , of the light of heaven, it is beacause religions as they are practised seem to be both unscientific and undemocratic.

...The most obvious fact of life is it's transience . Everything thing in this world passes away, the written word, the painted picture, the carved stone, the heroic act. Great civilizations are subject to the law of time . The earth on which we live may one day become unfit for human habitation as sun ages and alters. Our acts and thoughts , our deeds of herosim , our political structure are a part of history , of becoming , or process ....

...They all belong to the world of time. Time is symbolized in India's tradition by birth and death. Is this world which is perpetual procession of events , self- sustainng , self- maintaining , self- established,or is there a Beyond underlying it , unifying it and inspiring it , standing behind it and yet immanet it ?...

Is becoming all or is there being behind it ??

Will man annihilate nothingness or will annihilate him ? This very problem , this dread , this anxiety that we have , this feeling of the precariousness of the world bears witness to the world beyond. It is a longing for life sternal in the midst of time . Because of the implicit awareness of the ultimate reality we have the sense of godforsakenness .

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