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Karam Yog: Mother Teresa Lecture 9: KARAM YOG: MOTHER TERESA Mother Teresa (1910-1997).was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, in Albanian. Her father, a politician died when she was 8 years old. Her mother raised her as a catholic. She was interested in missionary work. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work. On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy Sect to start her own order, "The Missionaries of Charity". Today the order comprises Active and Contemplative branches of Sisters and Brothers in many countries. Mother Teresa's work has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972). She also received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton and Magsaysay awards. Her working principles are: "The dying, the crippled, the mentally ill, the unwanted, the unloved -- they are Jesus in disguise. ... I have an opportunity to be 24 hours a day with Jesus." Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa KARAM YOG: GURU NANAK Nanak (1469 A.D-1539), founder of the Sikh religion, was born in Punjab, present Pakistan. Nanak’s father, Hindu and belonging to khatri class was the accountant and agriculturist of the village. Nanak was to take his father’s role in the community, but even in his childhood, Nanak had a mystic disposition and he used to talk and sing hymns about God . In his youth he became familiar with the popular creeds of Muslims and Hindus and gained knowledge of the Qur'an and Hindu shastras. Nanak was married and had two sons. He is reported to have been displeased with the corruption and indifference to mankind. Accompanied by his childhood friend, a Muslim named Mardana, who played the Rebab while Nanak sang, guru Nanak started his missionary work in his town and travelled to different places from Assam to Persia. It is these songs of love and expressions of truthfulness and worship, along with the songs of Guru Nanak's nine successors, that form the eternal Guru of the Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib. He emancipated people from all religious and social shackles. Guru Nanak's teaching is understood to be practiced in three ways as “3 pillars of Sikhs”: 1.Naam Japna: Remembering God at all times (ceaseless devotion to God) 2. Kirat Karō: Earning/making a living honestly, without exploitation or fraud 3.Vaṇḍ Chakkō: Sharing with others, helping those with less who are in need He denounced the leading of life as an ascetic and put great emphasis on hard work and earning livelihood, was one of the prime duties of humans before God. Nanak saw the world as creation of one supreme power, and since the creator was in the world he created, it could not be treated as unreal. He emphasized the oneness of God, service to humanity, and the pursuit of religious harmony, and universal brotherhood. He strived for peaceful co-existence and mutual understanding through explicit acceptance of cultural pluralism . KARAM YOG: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), was an English nurse, prolific writer and statistician. She was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family in Florence, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth. Her mother wanted her to become a socialite and lead an affluent married life. By the time she was 12, she was determined to "do something worthwhile". Hence her father, sister and aunt supported her for her education and training. She liked books. She learned Italian, Latin, Greek, history, and mathematics. She in particular received excellent early preparation in mathematics from her father and aunt. She enjoyed caring for sick farmers on her father's estate. Once she even saved the life of an old shepherd's dog that had broken its leg. She rejected proposals, convinced that marriage would interfere with her ability to follow her calling to nursing. At the age of 16, she was sure that God was calling her to serve others. She dedicated her life to help people in physical pain. She joined nursing against her family and learned from nursing books she had secretly obtained. She cared for people in poverty. In December 1844, she became the leading advocate for improved medical care in the infirmaries. She visited hospitals in London and the surrounding area. She carried a lamp as she walked the halls of the battlefield hospital and became known as the "lady with the lamp". She came to prominence during the Crimean War for her revolutionized pioneering work in sanitary conditions in the army and the way in which nursing was taught. She collected data and systematized record-keeping practices for improving city and military hospitals. Nightingale's calculations of the mortality rate showed that with an improvement of sanitary methods, deaths would decrease. People called her a ministering angel in the hospitals. She became known as the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale laid the foundation stone of professional nursing with the principles summarized in the book Notes on Nursing. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honor, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday. KARAM-YOGA: SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Dutta and the founder of Ramakrishna Mission. Swami Vivekananda was born in an aristocratic Bengali family of Calcutta, West Bengal. Swami's parents influenced his thinking—the father,attorney, by his rational mind and the mother by her religious temperament. Narendranath had varied interests and a wide range of scholarship in philosophy, religion, history, the social sciences, arts, literature, and other subjects. He was well versed in scriptural texts, Vedas, the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Puranas. He was also well versed in classical music, both vocal and instrumental. He took an active interest in sports, and other organizational activities. Even when he was young, he questioned the validity of superstitious customs and discrimination based on caste and refused to accept anything without rational proof and pragmatic test. From his childhood, he showed inclination towards spirituality and God realization. While searching for a man who could directly demonstrate the reality of God, he came to Ramakrishna and became his disciple. Vivekananda asked him the question which he had been asking others all his life: 'Do you believe in God, Sir?' 'Yes,' he replied. 'Can you prove it, Sir?' 'Yes.' 'How?' 'Because I see Him just as I see you here, only in a much intenser sense.” During the course of five years of his training under Ramakrishna, Narendra was transformed from a restless, puzzled, impatient youth to a mature man who was ready to renounce everything for the sake of God- realization. As a guru, Ramakrishna taught Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism) and that all religions are true. Service to man was the most effective worship of God. After the death of his Guru, Vivekananda became a wandering monk, touring the Indian subcontinent and getting first-hand knowledge of India's condition. He later sailed to Chicago and represented India as a delegate in the 1893 Parliament of World Religions. He is considered a key figure in the introduction of Hindu philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the "Western" World, mainly in America and Europe and is also credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the end of the 19th century. Vivekananda is considered to be a major force in the revival of Hinduism in modern India. He is perhaps best known for his inspiring speech beginning with "Sisters and Brothers of America", through which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions at Chicago in 1893. He died before the age of 40. Karam Yoga: Swami Sivananada Swami Sivananda was a responsible for promoting the philosophy of Yoga and Vedanta amongst the people of India as well as the world. He was also the founder of the Divine Life Society, apart from being the author of more than 200 books, on Yoga, Vedanta, Swami Sivananda (September 8, 1887—July 14, 1963 ) was born as Kuppuswamy in Tamil Nadu.
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