Magazine: Vivek Jyoti, Feb 2019

Here are some wonderful excerpts from Vivek Jyoti magazine. You can read more about this magazine at my earlier post here. 

An incident where a small boy came and greeted Swami Vivekananda:

Life story of Anna Hazare and how he was inspired by a book from Swami Vivekananda which caused a turnaround in his life: 

An article by Swami Nikhileshwarananda where he makes a very nice point about how to deal with stress in modern lifestyle: 

A funny incident where a young kid asked Swami Shankarananda that she wanted to eat "Rajendra Prasad": 

Magazine announcing that digitization of its past issues are done and available for sale in convenient formats like DVD or Pen Drive: 

Hope you enjoyed reading these portions. If you want to subscribe to this wonderful magazine, please do so by sending a cheque of Rs 130 in the name of "Ramakrishna Mission, Raipur" to above address with your own address and asking for a yearly subscription by post. 

- Rahul Tiwary

Vivek Jyoti Magazine from Ramakrishna Mission

'Vivek Jyoti' is a Hindi magazine published by Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Ashram, Raipur (C.G.). It is a wonderful magazine with some regular features and articles on various aspects of spirituality, yoga, religion and society, many written by the monks of Ramakrishna Mission and some reproduced articles written by Swami Vivekananda.

Earlier I had shared about it with friends and some of them asked to share a few pages as sample. I have now scanned and uploaded a few articles from its May 2015 issue which you can view and read. The document is in .XPS format which opens with XPS Viewer. 

If you are not able to view it online, try to download it and then open.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Kl-PQwxOyRZ2ZUZ3Y1NXNXLU0/view?usp=sharing

Subscription details are on Page-2 of this document. You can also view it directly in below image (click on the image to enlarge):

If you have any queries, let me know. 

Disclaimer: Views expressed are personal. 

Subscribed to Vivek Jyoti

Our grandpa used to subscribe to Hindi magazine ‘Vivek Jyoti’ every month, which is published by Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Ashram, Raipur. Another professor, his colleague from college used to come to his house to deliver the magazine, as an act of service to society. Even after grandpa, we kept it subscribed. I had a dream to subscribe to the magazine on my own but since I was moving places it was not possible for me. Now I have subscribed it at my home and its first two issues have come. Reading it now and it is a wonderful feeling... I think a big advantage of growing up is that we can still cherish nicest childhood memories and yet have the freedom to be like we want!

The magazine has many regular columns - some explaining verses from scriptures; one is from the pen of Swami Vivekananda (portions of his writing on one topic at a time); on Memories of Ramakrishna where people share how they met Ramakrishna; one amazing column on Memories of Ma Sarada (Ma ko jaisa maine dekha) where people share their memories of Ma Sarada; then one column where a poem is published worshiping India as motherland (apni bharat mata), one column on Adi Shankara's writing (Vivek Chudamani), and many articles written by learned people and Matt members... It has around 50 pages only and is simple in understanding...

For subscription, send a multi-city Cheque or DD of only Rs 60 for a year in the name of 'Ramakrishna Mission', payable at Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Address: Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Ashram, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, 492001.

Or simplest method is to send me your postal address by message. For some year I have been gifting annual subscription to friends who want to have it... Last month I only sent it for myself and some others and would be happy to gift to anyone interested...