The Role of Physical Strength and Yogic Experience: in the Light of Swami Vivekananda

Abstract:

It is important to understand the central theme of the meaning of „YOGA‟. There are various interpretations by various commentaries; the word yoga has been derived from the root „YUJ‟ which means union or identity. Today the admirers and devotes of Swami Vivekananda celebrating the hundred and fifty years anniversary and re read him in various ways and keep this enthusiasm in all walks of our individual , social and spiritual life. Swami Vivekananda was a comprehensive personality. Although of athletic muscular build, he had a mystic consciousness like Plotinus and Spinoza attuned with the absolute of the monistic idealists. In this present age the civilization of humanity passing through critical crisis, it has directly and indirectly affect the individual human beings physically, mentally and spiritually above all the youths loss their self confidence and they don‟t know how to survive in this competitive world. It is important to understand the central theme of the meaning of „Yoga‟ there are various interpretations by various commentators. Vivekananda‟s heroic gospel of strength is summarized in the following statement remarks of his, and shows the leading elements of his influential personality: “I know that truth alone gives life, and nothing but going towards reality will make us strong and none will reach truth until he is strong. Strength is the medicine for the world‟s disease. Strength is the medicine which the poor must have when tyrannized over by the rich nothing gives such strength as the idea of Monism. Nothing makes us as moral as the idea of Monism.

Author Name : Dr.G.Kirubalan & Dr.A.Sellaperumal

Keywords: Physical Strength, Yogic, Vivekananda.


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