"Swamiji’s Contributions to India"

In spite of her innumerable linguistic, ethnic, historical and regional diversities, India has had from time immemorial a strong sense of cultural unity. It was, however, Swami Vivekananda who revealed the true foundations of this culture and thus clearly defined and strengthened the sense of unity as a nation.

Swamiji gave Indians proper understanding of their country’s great spiritual heritage and thus gave them pride in their past. Furthermore, he pointed out to Indians the drawbacks of Western culture and the need for India’s contribution to overcome these drawbacks. In this way Swamiji made India a nation with a global mission.

Sense of unity, pride in the past, sense of mission – these were the factors which gave real strength and purpose to India’s nationalist movement. Several eminent leaders of India’s freedom movement have acknowledged their indebtedness to Swamiji. Free India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote: “Rooted in the past, full of pride in India’s prestige, Vivekananda was yet modern in his approach to life’s problems, and was a kind of bridge between the past of India and her present … he came as a tonic to the depressed and demoralized Hindu mind and gave it self-reliance and some roots in the past.” Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose wrote: “Swamiji harmonized the East and the West, religion and science, past and present. And that is why he is great. Our countrymen have gained unprecedented self-respect, self-reliance and self-assertion from his teachings.”

Swamiji’s most unique contribution to the creation of new India was to open the minds of Indians to their duty to the downtrodden masses. Long before the ideas of Karl Marx were known in India, Swamiji spoke about the role of the labouring classes in the production of the country’s wealth. Swamiji was the first religious leader in India to speak for the masses, formulate a definite philosophy of service, and organize large-scale social service.
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A Tribute To Our Loving Mother Teresa -Some Beautiful Words Of Her

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for Money No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the Love of God.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste, when I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Let us more and more insist raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the kingdom of God; the rest will be given.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for Clothing- but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of Bricks - but homeless because of rejection.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Let us always greet each other with a smile for the smile is the beginning of love.

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts; then it is real and pure.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

-Mother Teresa
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