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Arise, Awake and Stop not till the Goal is Reached!

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As we all are aware of this famous quote that has bee used by me in the title of this blog, it was quoted by Swami Vivekananda. Here the question arises, why I would name a blog based on his life as a phrase quoted by him. The answer being..... "I don't want people to remember me but I want them to practice my ideas in their life...." Born as Narendranath Datta, Swami Vivekananda was son to Vishwanath Datta and Bhuvneshwari Devi. He was quite a naughty child and would keep disturbing everyone, every now and then. Swami's mother used to jokingly say..." After worshiping shiva so much with utmost devotion, I was expecting my child to be a great soul, but here I have been made a mother of havoc-creating demon!" In order to calm down a notorious Swami, his mother used to pour a bucket of cold water on his head chanting the name of Shiva and then Swami would become calm and composed as if in a deep meditative state. Later in his life he lost his father and then h