National Youth Day is celebrated in India on 12 January on the birthday of Swami Vivekananda. In 1984 the Government of India declared the day as 
the National Youth Day and since 1985 the event is celebrated in India every year.
Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta (Bengali: [nɔrend̪ronat̪ʰ d̪ɔt̪o]), was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission.He is perhaps best known for his speech which began, “Sisters and brothers of America …,” in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1893.
Rituals that religion exists in pure and sincere love of the heart and not in the ceremony. Unless a human being is pure in body and mind, visits to temple and worshipping Lord will completely be a futile exercise.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, ‘Thy will be done.’ We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
