Followers

	Abdul Kalam, Former President of India Swami Vivekanada's message is unique and the world needs it. He says "My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to be realized"

	Barack Obama, President of USA Instead of succumbing to division, you have shown that the strength of India - the very idea of India - is its embrace of all colors, all castes, all creeds. It's the diversity represented in this chamber today. It's the richness of faiths celebrated by a visitor to my hometown of Chicago more than a century ago - the renowned Swami Vivekananda

	Azim H. Premji, Wipro I would like to end with words of Swami Vivekananda:"Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs rot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-making, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got byheart a whole library .

	Anna Hazare's biography He came across a book of Swami Vivekananda and immediately bought it. He was inspired by Vivekananda's photograph on the cover. As he started reading the book, he found answers to all his questions, he says. The book revealed to him that the ultimate motive of human life should be service to humanity. Striving for the betterment of common people is equivalent to offering a prayer to the God, he realized