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This 100-Year-Old Health Advice From Vivekananda Is Still Relevant Today

Every year on National Youth Day, India remembers Swami Vivekananda not just as a monk or philosopher, but as someone who spoke directly to the physical and mental condition of young people. More than a century later, at a time of burnout, lifestyle disorders, and rising anxiety, his views on health feel unexpectedly current. Vivekananda lived and spoke in the late 19th century, long before gyms, therapy apps, or wellness trends existed. Yet his idea of health was strikingly modern.

This 100-Year-Old Health Advice From Vivekananda Is Still Relevant Today

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Key Highlights

  • He believed health was not about appearance, indulgence, or comfort, it was about strength, discipline, and readiness to face life. Strength before everything elseOne of Vivekananda’s most radical ideas was his insistence on physical strength.
  • He openly criticised weakness, not as a moral failing, but as a health issue.
  • He argued that a frail body limits courage, clarity, and purpose.
  • For a generation that often equates wellness with softness, his message was blunt: a strong mind needs a strong body to stand on. This wasn’t about bodybuilding or vanity.
  • It was about stamina, posture, breath, and the ability to act without exhaustion.
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