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            |  | SRI RAMAKRISHNA (1836-1886)
 "If there has ever been a word of truth, a word of spirituality,
                  that I have spoken anywhere in the world, I owe it to my Master;
                  only the mistakes are mine."
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            |  | THE HOLY MOTHER, SARADA DEVI (1853-1920)
 The divine consort of the Great Master, she gave Swami
                Vivekananda her blessings, knowing that it was Sri Ramakrishna's
                wish that he should undertake the journey to America.
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            |  | SWAMI VIVEKANANDA (1863-1902)
 "Man-making is my mission in life.... The older I grow the
                  more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my New
                  Gospel. .... My ideal indeed can be put into a few words, and that
                  is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest
                  in every movement of life."
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            | Vivekananda's
                  Dynamic Influence on Societies and Individuals Swami Vivekananda's influence on societies and individuals can be
                classified into: his impact as a teacher of Vedanta; his stress on
                the practice of religion of service, based on equality and tyaga;
                his role as an awakener, builder and organizer of modern India with
                its patriotic, spiritual and service movements; his contribution as
                a cultural and spiritual emissary of India to the West; his work as
                an interpreter of Indian values in the universal language of science,
                and his influence in taming and unifying science itself.
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            | His
                  Contributions to Humanity This volume comprising four parts is a humble attempt
                to acquaint the reader with some of these contributions of Swamiji
                to humanity. Besides, it presents a diary of significant events in
                his life and times, a glimpse of his scintillating divine personality,
                a taste of his powerful and clear language of electrifying impact,
                and a rare example of his utter humility when he traces all that is
                good in him and all that he could accomplish in a too-short a span
                of time to the grace of his Great Master, Sri Ramakrishna, in whose
                hallowed name he set in motion a mighty Movement for the well-being
                and spiritual enlightenment of the mankind. Finally, the book enables
                the reader to see Swamiji visually through pictures. It presents a
                selection of eighty photographs projecting a tapestry-like a visual
                review of the evolution of Naren into Vivekananda the prophet of 'Awakened
                India'. An exhaustive list of over two hundred books by and on Swami
                Vivekananda is appended to the book for reference and further study.
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            |  | His Lasting Gift to the World Humanity has not yet opened fully the gift it has received from
                  Sri Ramakrishna, the gift of the advent and work of Swami Vivekananda.
                  We can only envy the future world, which will be delighted and blessed
                  with this gift which it has been ready to receive but slow to uncover.
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