Personality Development Through Human Excellence (Illustrated)

Swami Vivekananda in one of his inspiring exhortation said

Teach yourselves, teach everyone his real nature, call upon the sleeping soul and see how it awakes. Power will come, glory will come, goodness will come, purity will come, and everything that is EXCELLENT, will come, when this sleeping soul is roused to self-con-scious activity.

The Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence (a centre for training teachers, youth and children in value oriented education) is an effort in this direction- to awaken dormant, spiritual dimension of personality through which alone excellence can be achieved. Reveared Swami Ranganathanandaji, President of Ramakrishna Math and Mission in his benedictory message says "Our youth has intelligence and energy. In our current education, they miss one important item of all true education, namely, character-building. A combination of knowledge and character alone can make path for Human Excellence. That character comes from the manifestation of the divinity always present in every human being and finds expression in the spirit of love and service of humanity, irrespective of caste and creed, gender and nationality. We have Indian character excellence, Western character excellence, and Chinese character excellence."

In this brochure an effort is made to bring out various aspects of human excellence like strength and fearlessness, self-confidence, courage, discrimination, compassion, concentration, self-sacrifice and several other human virtues, which constitutes the real character of a person. One can develop one's personality only through manifestation of human excellence by achieving the various divine dimensions of a person.

Swami Srikantananda, Director of the Institute has very crisply and beautifully brought out the essence of the real personality which have been painted and presented by a great artist Sri P. Purushotham Karanth of Mangalore.

We do hope that this brochure will be a source of inspiration to our younger generation to mould their lives based on inspiring message of Swami Vivekananda.