The National Youth Day is celebrated every year on 12 January – from 1985 it has been an indelible part of India’s tradition. Incidentally, this was also the day when Swami Vivekananda, one of the greatest social reformers, thinkers, and philosophers of India, was born. In fact, the Indian government had declared back in 1984 that Swamiji’s birthday would be celebrated as the National Youth Day. The main goal behind this is to make sure that the students across the country can be encouraged to learn about the life, the ideals, thoughts and philosophy of Swami Vivekananda and apply them in their lives.
This Day is makes the citizens of the country come closer to each other and understand each other to perform a task better. It is important for the people to get every idea and plans to focus on the activity mandatory to do all the tasks with proper knowledge of the things.
The life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda is known in his pre-monastic life as Narendra Nath Datta. He was born in an affluent family in Kolkata on 12 January 1863. His father, Vishwanath Datta, was a successful attorney with interests in a wide range of subjects, and his mother, Bhuvaneshwari Devi, was endowed with deep devotion, strong and pure character and other qualities in her.
Born with a yogic temperament, he used to practise meditation even from his boyhood, and was associated with Brahmo Movement for some time. When swami Ji completed his graduation from Calcutta University, he had also acquired a vast knowledge of different subjects, especially Western philosophy and history.
NATIONAL YOUTH DAY THEME:
- The theme of 2011 was “Sabse Pehle Bharat”.
- The theme of 2012 was “Celebrating Diversity In Unity”.
- The theme of 2013 was “Awakening The Youth Power”.
- The theme of 2014 was “Youth For Drugs Free World”.
- The theme of 2015 was “Youngmanch” and “Youth for Clean, Green and Progressive India” (and slogan was “hum se hai nayi shuruaat”).
- The theme of 2016 was “Indian Youth for Development, Skill and Harmony”.
- The theme of 2017 was “Youth for Digital India”.
- The theme of 2018 Not declared
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.”- Swami Vivekand’s wisdom words.
