Magazine - Year 2016 - Version 2
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The year 2016 is being observed by All World Gayatri Pariwar as the ‘Youth Revolution Year’. In
this context, let us recall the clarion call of Swami Vivekananda to the Youth.- Editor
“I want young men. ‘It is the young, the strong, and healthy, of sharp intellect that will reach the Lord’, say the Vedas. This is the time to decide your future — while you possess the energy of youth, not when you are worn out and jaded, but in the freshness and vigour of youth. Work — this is the time; for the freshest, the untouched and unsmelled flowers alone are to be laid at the feet of the Lord, and such He receives. Rouse yourselves, therefore, or life is short. There are greater works to be done than aspiring to become lawyers and picking quarrels and such things. A far greater work is this sacrifice of yourselves for the benefit of your race, for the welfare of humanity. ...... Life is short, but the soul is immortal and eternal, and one thing being certain, death, let us therefore take up a great ideal and give up our whole life to it. Let this be our determination, and may He, the Lord, who ‘comes again and again for the salvation of His own people’, to quote from our scriptures — may the great Krishna bless us and lead us all to the fulfilment of our aims!”
“I want young men. ‘It is the young, the strong, and healthy, of sharp intellect that will reach the Lord’, say the Vedas. This is the time to decide your future — while you possess the energy of youth, not when you are worn out and jaded, but in the freshness and vigour of youth. Work — this is the time; for the freshest, the untouched and unsmelled flowers alone are to be laid at the feet of the Lord, and such He receives. Rouse yourselves, therefore, or life is short. There are greater works to be done than aspiring to become lawyers and picking quarrels and such things. A far greater work is this sacrifice of yourselves for the benefit of your race, for the welfare of humanity. ...... Life is short, but the soul is immortal and eternal, and one thing being certain, death, let us therefore take up a great ideal and give up our whole life to it. Let this be our determination, and may He, the Lord, who ‘comes again and again for the salvation of His own people’, to quote from our scriptures — may the great Krishna bless us and lead us all to the fulfilment of our aims!”
