SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S…..

Did you know that Swami vivekananda, who passed on on 4th of July, 1902, actually wrote a great poem a few years earlier about the Fourth of july?? !!

Swami Vivekananda had a great nature of Lord Shiva!!

In one of Vivekananda's early visits, Sri Ramakrishna said to him :'Behold, in you is Shiva! And in me is Shakti! And these two are One!'
According to the testimony of the Mother-guided Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda is 'Siva', born 'to bring spiritual consciousness to people'
Swami Vivekananda had great fascination for Lord Shiva during his
childhood. As he grew older his love for Shiva, the Lord of monks and yogis deepened. And now in the Himalayas, the abode of the Great God,the thought of Him was uppermost in the Swami's mind.
`Yes!' he said of Shiva one day, `He is the Great God, calm, beautiful
and silent; and I am His great worshipper'
during his stay in Kashmir, Swami Vivekananda was in a
different world altogether. Visions of Shri Amarnath, Mother Kali and
Kshir Bhavani remained always with him. Later at Belur Math he said :
"Since visiting Amarnath, I feel as though Shiva were sitting on my
head for twenty-four hours a day and will not come down."

To The Fourth Of July
Behold, the dark clouds melt away,
That gathered thick at night, and hung
So like a gloomy pall above the earth!
Before thy magic touch, the world
Awakes! The birds in chorus sing.
The flowers raise their star-like crowns-
Dew-set, and wave thee welcome fair.
The lakes are opening wide in love
Their hundred thousand lotus-eyes
To welcome thee, with all their depth.
All hail to thee, thou Lord of Light!
A welcome new to thee, today,
O sun! today thou sheddest LIBERTY!
Bethink thee how the world did wait,
And search for thee, through time and clime.
Some gave up home and love of friends,
And went in quest of thee, self banished,
Through dreary oceans, through primeval forests,
Each step a struggle for their life or death;
Then came the day when work bore fruit,
And worship, love, and sacrifice,
Fulfilled, accepted, and complete.
Then thou, propitious, rose to shed
The light of FREEDOM on mankind.
Move on, O Lord, on thy resistless path!
Till thy high noon o’erspreads the world.
Till every land reflects thy light,
Till men and women, with uplifted head,
Behold their shackles broken, and
Know, in springing joy, their life renewed!

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