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The Man in Making
The Man in Making
Total Records Found: 24
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The weaving of the web of a great personality is a wonderful and unique process. (LSV1.101)
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Naren's youth shows three main factors shaping his character and destiny. Awareness of nature, Influence of his family and studies and thirdly the guidance of his spiritual teacher Shri Ramakrishna. (LSV1.101)
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In the foregoing pages we have given an idea of his innate spiritual tendency, evident from his purity, his thirst to know God, his search for one who had seen Him, and his final surrender at the feet of the Master at Dakshineswar. (LSV1.101)
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The influence of his family, exerted mainly through his parents, was far reaching in its effects. (LSV1.101)
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Naren believed in Truth. True philosophy should be the mother of spiritual action, the fountain head of creative energy, the highest and noblest stimulus to the will. (LSV1.102)
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Naren studied the philosophy of Herbert Spencer and of many German philosophers. Later on he used the Spencerian mode of reasoning in his discussion of the doctrines of the Upanishads and the Vedanta. (LSV1.102)
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This study of western philosophy made Naren in full rebellion against the Hindu social system. He saw that the whole nation was in bondage to the priestly caste. The net of caste and creed became intolerable to him. (LSV1.103)
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Naren was in accord with the views of Western science and philosophy. (LSV1.103)
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Narendra had a great respect for Western material science and its analytical processes. He pursued his study and accepting whatever was good in them. (LSV1.104)
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Narendra took a course in Western medicine to acquaint himself with the working of the nervous system especially the brain and spinal cord. (LSV1.104)
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Naren had a strong appeal for Poetry because it is a language of ideals. (LSV1.105)
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Naren's was a personality made up of a variety of moods and qualities. In recreation a boy, in song an artist, in intellectual pursuits a scholar, and in his outlook on life a philosopher. (LSV1.105)
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Naren did whatever was to be done because he saw and understood the fitness of the doing, and not because of some external pressure. (LSV1.106)
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The monastic tendency was natural to Naren; yet he was a jubilant lover of life. In early youth he recognized marriage to be a barrier to spirituality. (LSV1.106)
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The great barrier to his final realization at this period was the intellect. But it had to be silenced, but by developing it to its highest capacity. (LSV1.106)
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One of Naren's fellow students Dr. Brajendranath Seal writes in Prabuddhan Bharata (April 1907) about Naren's personality and the early stage of his mental development, (LSV1.107)
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Naren yearned sincerely for knowledge, sure, real, permanent and satisfactory. (LSV1.111)
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Though Naren was now giving much time and energy to spiritual practices, he did not throw away his philosophical books. Study, music and meditation wholly occupied his mind. (LSV1.112)
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Naren took a new method of mediation. On one such occasion as he was thus seated after meditation, he was blessed with the vision of the Buddha. (LSV1.113)
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Swami Saradananda remembers him to have related what happened during meditation on that day (LSV1.113)
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All the passionate longing, which, in ordinary persons, is related to the senses, was in Naren directed to the understanding of life and its problems. (LSV1.113)
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Naren began to build, though slowly at first, an enlightened life, under the watchful eye of an everwakeful spiritual guide. (LSV1.114)
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Naren pondered deeply on the idea of God. his dream and sleep were not of the ordinary kind. (LSV1.114)
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When Naren met the Master, his spiritual guide and companion, he felt that he had found a haven of peace and the end of all his struggles. (LSV1.115)
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