Swami Vivekananda Jayanti 2023: Quotes, thoughts, wishes, biography

It is Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary on January 12.

Swami Vivekananda's birth anniversary is also observed as National Youth Day.

Swami Vivekananda was born in 1863 in Calcutta, now Kolkata.

Swami Vivekananda’s teachings inspire people to live up to their highest ideals.

He founded the Vedanta Society of New York and the Vedanta Society of San Francisco (now Vedanta Society of Northern California).

Important words from this leader that will inspire you are as follows.

1. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

2. Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

3. You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

4. The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

5. All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.