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"You are the Pure One; awake and arise, O mighty one, this sleep does
not become you. Awake and arise, it does not befit you. Think not that
you are weak and miserable. Almighty, arise and awake, and manifest
your own nature. It is not fitting that you think yourself a sinner. It
is not fitting that you think yourself weak. Say that to the world,
say it to yourselves, and see what a practical result comes, see how
with an electric flash everything is manifested, how everything is
changed. Tell that to mankind, and show them their power. Then we shall
learn how to apply it in our daily lives." -- Swami Vivekananda</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-13922389615302852052012-04-30T14:42:00.001+05:302012-04-30T14:42:36.020+05:30<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
All are requested to "like" and "share" the Facebook page of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/abvym" target="_blank">Akhil Bharat Vivekananda Yuva Mahamandal</a> and also invite friends to do
the same. Please participate in this endeavour to unite all who support
the cause of the Mahamandal.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-53511605531125424972011-11-06T23:15:00.002+05:302011-11-07T00:02:51.265+05:30Check out the figures!!!Check out the figures to find out startling facts about India:<br /><br />http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats<br /><br />http://www.worldbank.org.in/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/SOUTHASIAEXT/INDIAEXTN/0,,contentMDK:20195738~pagePK:141137~piPK:141127~theSitePK:295584,00.html<br /><br />http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-10-12/news/30270931_1_global-hunger-index-hunger-levels-india-ranks<br /><br />The less said, the better!<br />Are we concerned?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-72613529724945454712011-03-21T11:05:00.002+05:302011-03-21T13:51:53.671+05:30The Vision of a Real Youth MovementWhat we need today is thinking on a macro scale... of the national problem. NGO's can do something indeed on a micro scale... yet the problem is national and the solution must be national too. The intelligent and the principled has this task ahead: placing their own centres of gravity at the centre of gravity of the nation. The nation, the Motherland - the millions of deprived people of this land - this must be the main concern. Character has be moulded that way. That is the vision of a real youth movement.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-83414808539718319332011-03-18T00:01:00.003+05:302011-03-18T00:07:56.970+05:30Informal Meet at the ISIWe had a nice informal discussion at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, with its research scholars on 16 March. The meeting started a few minutes after 6.30 pm and continued for nearly 2 hours. The subject was a serious one: the condition of children in our country and the work before us. Almost all of the 22 or 23 students took active part in the discussion. They also inquired about the Mahamandal. Some of these scholars are planning to visit a few centres of the Mahamandal, where some work is going on among the most deprived sections of society. The organizer was the ever-smiling Raju Maiti, himself a Ph.D. student in Applied Statistics.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-41173023230489017992011-01-08T22:30:00.001+05:302011-01-08T22:32:37.579+05:30Annual Youth Rally of the MahamandalThe <span style="font-weight:bold;">Annual Youth Rally</span> of the Akhil Bharat Vivekananda Yuva Mahamandal will be held on 16 January 2011, Sunday, from 4 pm at Azad Hind Bag (Hedua Park), Kolkata, to commemorate the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda and to renew our pledge to rebuild India following the way shown by him. On that day four colourful processions will start from Cossimbazar Polytechnic School (Baghbazar), Raja Subodh Mullick Square, Howrah Railway Station, and Beleghata Deshbandhu High School (Main), which will converge at the venue of the rally, where eminent speakers will address the gathering.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-55915793274693043902011-01-08T21:40:00.002+05:302011-01-08T22:27:02.785+05:30The Annual All India Camp of the Mahamandal<span style="font-weight:bold;">The 44th Annual All India Youth Training Camp</span> of the Akhil Bharat Vivekananda Yuva Mahamandal was held from 25 to 30 December 2010 at Gangadharpur Shikshan Mandir B. Ed. College, Gangadharpur, Dist. Howrah, West Bengal. The aim of the camp was to infuse into the youth the ideas of self-development (i.e. character-building), social concern and citizenship, service to the nation and national integration, harmony of religions, ideal and organization, and the way to nation-building, generally drawn from the teachings of Swami Vivekananda. The number of campers was 1240, and they came from West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The campers included students and teachers of schools, colleges, and universities, engineers, physicians, lawyers, service-holders, businessmen, farmers, workers, and so on. They spoke in different languages, and they belonged to different religions.<br /> Revered Srimat Swami Smarananandaji Maharaj, Vice President, Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, Belur, inaugurated the camp on 25 December at 4-50 pm by hoisting the flag of the Mahamandal.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-13733310639097325682011-01-08T21:39:00.000+05:302011-01-08T21:40:35.741+05:30State Level Camps of the Mahamandal<span style="font-weight:bold;">The 16th Annual Bihar-Jharkhand State Level Youth Training Cam</span>p of the Mahamandal was held from 15 to 17 November 2010 at Gautam Buddha Industrial Training Institute, Hazaribag (Jharkhand). <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Annual Chhattisgarh State-level Youth Training Camp</span> was held from 29 to 31 October at Bilaspur with 130 campers.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-8824704015054367482011-01-08T21:37:00.002+05:302011-01-08T21:43:13.804+05:30The Annual Camp of the Sarada Nari SangathanSarada Nari Sangathan, the sister organization of the Mahamandal, is working silently among women for their life-building since 1989 with the ideal of Sri Sarada Devi. Now there are 50 units, which organize weekly study circles and some social service activities. Many of the units arrange daylong women’s training camps to propagate the ideas of the Sangathan. <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">The 21st Annual All India Women’s Training Camp of the Sangathan</span> was held from 28 to 31 October 2010 at Bhogpur K.M. High School, Bhogpur, Dist. Purba Medinipur, West Bengal. The aim of the camp was to inspire women in life-building, following the ideal of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, and Swami Vivekananda, and to organize them for this work. From all walks of life 408 women joined the camp as trainees, and 127 more participated in the programmes on Sunday. Revered Pravrajika Shuchiprana Mataji of Sarada Math, Dakshineshwar, inaugurated the camp on 28 October and addressed the campers and guests. <br /> The main training programme included classes and question-answer sessions on character-building, mental concentration, and the aims and objectives of the Sangathan as well as physical training and music classes. An exhibition was set up on the life of Sri Sarada Devi. A bookstall with the Mahamandal and Udbodhan publications was opened. On the last day of the camp a colourful procession was taken out in the locality.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-70534307327205033892010-08-20T16:46:00.002+05:302010-08-20T17:44:30.051+05:30The great plunderOur national resources are being systematically plundered for years and decades. With government connivance, of course. Legal and illegal private mining of coal, bauxite, iron ore, etc. has unsettled the tribal habitats and lay the areas waste. Forests have dwindled in the hands of the mafia, while the poor tribal has been for ages refrained from damaging the forest by bringing too many firewood! Poor collectors of Kendu leaves have been exploited for ages. <br /><br />The privileged classes of India - the few honest people and those thieves - are responsible. By omission or by commission.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-2438012716250772312010-08-20T16:30:00.002+05:302010-08-20T16:43:40.716+05:30Foodgrains rot while hungry children die!The multidemensional poverty studies of the UNDP has revealed that more poor people live in the eight poorest States of India than in 26 poorest countries of Africa. A huge number of children are dying every year here in our country for want of food.<br /><br />Lacs of tons of food grain, lying over open grounds, are rotting, thousands of tons have been burnt. In spite of the directives from the apex court, the union minister for agriculture has ruled out the possibility of distributing the grains among the poorest of the poor.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-62986703929601915832010-06-29T00:51:00.005+05:302010-07-05T16:36:47.193+05:30Bhopal tragedyThe Bhopal disaster happened in 1984, when many of today's young men were either not yet born or just toddlers. Now they have an opportunity to have an idea of how a section of powerful Indians let the offenders go scot-free by paying a meagre sum of money. Some of the best known Indian lawyers, ministers, and government functionaries worked on behalf of the offenders. Some 15,000 to 20,000 people died, but who on the corridors of power really cares? Some ordinary citizens have been patiently working there for years and decades. So they were harassed by our own police. Yet they are still trying to do their bit. The environment was devastated, water got contaminated with toxic chemicals to such an extent that even today people are getting affected with deadly disorders and diseases. Many children are born disabled. Are we men? India today has too few men worth the name. Swamiji knew this problem well. So, he emphatically repeated, 'Make men first.' Come up, young men who feel. Let us work hard to this end.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-2048013496856296572010-04-11T13:47:00.002+05:302010-04-11T13:53:42.684+05:30Visit the Mahamandal websiteVisit the Mahamandal website for news updates and the upcoming events including training camps.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-52692532785570850502010-04-11T13:25:00.002+05:302010-04-11T13:36:20.533+05:30Right to EducationEvery child does have a right to education. That is his or her birth right, inalienable right, whether you pass a Bill to make an Act or not. Of course, the Act makes it mandatory for the governments to ensure that children get education. A welcome move indeed, a bit too late though - coming after 63 years of Independence. But we have such an Act to protect child workers, and we know how much it really worked. We remember once more: 'No Nation is great or good, because Parliament enacts this or that, but because its men are great and good.' 'So, make men first.'Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-73153224139992467612010-02-28T22:19:00.004+05:302010-02-28T22:34:41.079+05:30Childhood lostA unit of the Mahamandal is organizing weekly literacy and awareness programmes for working children and other children who are even younger and cannot yet work. It is a novel experience and an eye-opener for some of the young men who are conducting the classes. The children are very eager to learn new things and play. They enjoy even the smallest gifts, for perhaps no outsider ever loved them from the heart before. The adolescent boys did not know their country's name or map, nor that the earth revolves around the sun. They knew no games, for they work from dawn to dusk. We see such children at every roadside tea-stall, we know they are there in so many hazardous occupations throughout the country. There are a few crore of them, nobody knows the exact number. They are from villages, they are from urban slums! Educated young men who are associated with the Mahamandal should understand these post-Independence problems emerging out of lopsided development. Do you apply your minds to these problems with a bleeding heart?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-31062005391672439002010-02-28T22:10:00.003+05:302010-02-28T22:48:19.390+05:30No complacencyThe Economic Survey of India, recently published by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, says that 80 % of our rural population will be considered BPL (Below the poverty line), if India's official criterion of 2400 kCal of daily food intake (for rural population) is applied. However, the present estimations are based on 1820 kCal for rural areas, which leads to the figure of about 42% BPL in rural areas. Shocking! Isn't it? The criteria for determining the BPL are changing and the governments have some schemes to aid them, without altering the fundamentals. Even those schemes are not properly implemented by our Babus and their elaborate machinery that has to limp in the midst of extreme corruption and political interference. So, what are going to do? Shall we be satisfied that the Indian economy has been less perturbed by the global meltdown? Shall we regularly overlook the suffering of the masses? We have become used to the appalling situation. Our first duty will be to break down this complacency and to bring about a sense of gravity and urgency.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-40000123793794136092010-02-26T22:11:00.003+05:302010-02-26T22:38:25.103+05:30What is the purpose?What is purpose of the Mahamandal? Arranging camps and study circles and giving young people some engagement, so that they become 'goody goody boys' and stop disturbing the established order? Not at all. Is it then for a little social service for the sake of self-satisfaction? By no means. Our object is to rebuild India and, for that purpose, to increase the number of 'Ignited Minds' on a nation-wide scale. Swamiji entrusted the young men of India with this duty and no less. Let us ponder, let us try to understand the gravity of the prevailing crisis and the import of the plan of the Mahamandal in this context. And let us prepare ourselves. We must not be satisfied with the little we have done. For unnumbered millions are still starving!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-60130934266402605292010-01-07T00:22:00.003+05:302010-01-07T00:33:53.339+05:30Vivekananda is being born everydayVivekananda was not born just on a particular day in January 1863. He is being born every day in the hearts of millions of young men and women. Ability to visualize his life - even a little of it - would give us new light. That young man - so full of inner purity, so full of strength! His audacious questions, his fearless doubts, his scientific temperament, his soul-stirring thirst for true Life! And, above all, his oceanic heart, the tempest of his heart at the sight of others' sufferings! Do we not see hunger and destitution all around even today? Do we feel, we who consider ourselves his followers? It is not easy to follow Vivekananda. Yet, we must not give up. What do you think about it?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171231092951999579.post-89592423894401080062009-12-15T00:31:00.003+05:302009-12-15T01:26:02.372+05:30Do you feel?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirNpfRWGw2KafQM-gBnGrhKhvp98V0v_Q74PPXwTqJJjyRvGSqwKag5mU0qamYmzzhikv3A5GesxMZrcRtFf7VguvR_YQSyHr-_sz2lAdtifRTtyBCVnvjqBWG5z5tAC-fQxIxmTCrIus3/s1600-h/Emblem.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 86px; height: 91px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirNpfRWGw2KafQM-gBnGrhKhvp98V0v_Q74PPXwTqJJjyRvGSqwKag5mU0qamYmzzhikv3A5GesxMZrcRtFf7VguvR_YQSyHr-_sz2lAdtifRTtyBCVnvjqBWG5z5tAC-fQxIxmTCrIus3/s320/Emblem.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415182211525412434" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Hard facts about India</span>: 50% of our rural folk are under the poverty line. 77% of the total population spend upto Rs 20 per day. 47% children malnourished. Millions of child labour. Human Development Index ranking (UNDP) - 134 among 182 countries, according to 2009 report. Global Hunger Index ranking - 65 among 84 poor countries.<br /><br />Why? Because, there are too few 'men' here. Let us listen to the advice of Vivekananda: 'And, therefore, <span style="font-weight:bold;">make men first</span>.' Men of high moral character, who can feel for others, who have the spirit of sacrifice for the common weal, who have a sharp brain and a strong and active body, are the greatest need of the country. When such men arise, India will be great in all respects, assured Vivekananda.<br /><br />So, the Mahamandal invites all young men, in whom lies all hope for our future, to join its 'man-making' movement for the purpose of nation-building as well as for the fulfilment of our life.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2