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150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda

Bengali film director Tutu (Utpal) Sinha made a film The Light: Swami Vivekananda as a tribute to Swami Vivekananda on his 150th birth anniversary.

1907 in India

5 June - Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a sect of Hinduism, is established by Swami Yagnapurushdas.

Ajit Singh of Khetri

According to Mani Shankar Mukherjee's The Monk As Man: The Unknown Life of Swami Vivekananda, on 4 June 1891, Ajit Singh woke up at 6.30 am in the morning.

Alambazar Math

Swami Premananda came back a few days after the return of Swami Vivekananda.

Arya Samaj in South Africa

Another preacher, Swami Mangalanand Puri, came to Natal in 1913.

Basiswar Sen

In 1924 Sister Christine or Christine Greenstidel a direct American disciple of Swami Vivekananda had come down to India and took up her accommodation with Boshi.

Basu Chatterjee

Some of his best films are Rajnigandha (1974), Baton Baton Mein, Chhoti si Baat, Shaukeen, Swami, Apne Paraye, Dillagi, Chitchor, Khatta Meetha and Ek Ruka Hua Faisla.

Bhakti Hridaya Bon Swami

In 1942, after the disappearance of his Guru, Srila Sarasvati Prabhupada, Swami Bon voted for Swami Bhakti Vilas Tirtha to be the next Acharya of the Gaudiya Math.

Boyss Toh Boyss Hain

Boyss Toh Boyss Hain is an upcoming 2013 Hindi comedy film directed by Amit Vats and produced by Chaitannya Swami and Anup Jalota.

Bryan Willis Hamilton

Hamilton is also a full-time monk/missionary and initiated as a disciple of Guru Prasad Swami (ISKCON).

Cabir Maira

Cabir Maira is an Indian Television actor, currently playing the role of Anand Swami, the Head of SIU (RAW) in Life OK and Sphere Origins' Fiction, Suspense Thriller television series 2613.

Dayananda Saraswati

Swami Dayananda's creations, the Arya Samaj, unequivocally condemns practices of different religions and communities that are noted to be prevalent, such as idol worship, animal sacrifice, ancestor worship, pilgrimages, priest craft, offerings made in temples, the castes, child marriages, meat eating and discrimination against women on the grounds that all these lacked original Hinduism.

Electro Jugni/She's Mine

A live version recorded at the 2007 Wychwood Festival was released via Swami's MySpace page in mid-2007.

Encyclopedia of Hinduism

The idea was conceived by Swami Chidanand Saraswati, president of Parmarth Niketan Ashram, at a Hindu-Jain Temple in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1987.

G. Gangadharan Nair

He had his traditional education of Sanskrit Grammar from Swami Vidyananda Tirthapada, grand disciple of Chattampi Swamikal.

Gabe Klein

Before high school he spent ages 10–11 studying under Swami Satchidananda at the Yogaville Vidyalayam interfaith school in Buckingham, Virginia.

India House

Phelps admired Swami Vivekananda, and the Vedanta Society (established by the Swami) in New York was at the time under Swami Abhedananda, who was considered "seditionist" by the British.

Interfaith dialogue

Participants included Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche on Buddhism, Diwan Saiyad Zainul Abedin Ali Sahib (Ajmer Sharif) on Islam, Dr. Prabalkant Dutt on non-Catholic Christianity, Swami Jayendra Saraswathi on Hinduism and Dastur Dr. Peshtan Hormazadiar Mirza on Zoroastrianism.

Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala

The case originated in February 1970 when Swami HH Sri Kesavananda Bharati, Senior Pontiff and head of "Edneer Mutt" - a Hindu Mutt situated in Edneer, a village in Kasaragod District of Kerala, challenged the Kerala government's attempts, under two state land reform acts, to impose restrictions on the management of its property.

Keshavashram

Swami Keshavāshram became the Fifth head of the community after his teacher (guru) Swami Shankarāshram II attained Mahā-samādhi in 1785 in the month of Maagha.

Koluvu Srinivasa

Details of festivals and observances in the Tirumala temple and those at the temples of Govindaraja Swami and Kodandarama Swami at Tirupati, Padmavathi Devi at Tiruchanur, Sri Kalahastiswara at Sri Kalahasti and several other nearby temples are read out.

Kripalvananda

Kripalvananda, along with his disciple Swami Vinit Muni, spent four years from 1977 to 1981 at Desai's yoga centers in the United States, primarily at the Kripalu Yoga Ashram in Sumneytown, Pennsylvania and at Kayavarohana West in 1977 and 1978 at Yogeshwar Muni's Ashram in St. Helena, CA.

Krishna Balaram Mandir

On the left altar is a Murti of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu with Nityananda, and of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his spiritual teacher Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura.

Kundan Singh Kush

He taught in a number of Arya Samaj schools which included Gurukul Primary School near Lautoka in 1939, Arya Samaj Girls' School in Saweni Lautoka from 1940 to 1945, Swami Shraddanand Memorial School in Suva, Vunikavikaloa Arya School in Ra and Veisari Primary School near Suva.

Lalgarh, Rajasthan

There are 1500 families residing in the village; out of them 300 families are of Lakhotia, Lohia, Bang, Malani, Jhawar, Bajaj, Toshniwal, swami, Bagada, Tawaniya, ojha etc.

Madhukar Vasudev Dhond

He wrote in Marathi on Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Tukaram, Ramdas, Vitthal, Raghunath Dhondo Karve, Ram Ganesh Gadkari, Bal Sitaram Mardhekar, Dattatraya Ganesh Godse, Anandi Gopal Joshi, Ranjit Desai's novel Swami, Vijay Tendulkar's play Sakharam Binder, and many other topics.

Mahan Mj

Swami Vidyanathananda is a monk at the order's headquarters at Belur Math and an associate Professor of mathematics at the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University at Belur Math.

Narnaul

Famous yog guru Swami Ramdev completed his initial education in this gurukul under the guidance of Acharya Praduman ji maharaj.

Nilachala Saraswata Sangha

On 20 March 1930 (Thursday) he met Swami Nigamananda for the first time at Nilachala Kutir.

Banamali Dash, Durga Charan Mohanty along with devotees, who were coming on the quest of truth and knowledge to Nilachala Kutir, sought permission from Swami Nigamananda to celebrate His birth day at Nilachala Kutir (Puri) on 24 August 1934, Full Moon day(Shraban Purnima).

Niralamba Swami

In his famous autobiographical work – ‘Why I Am An Atheist’, Bhagat Singh, the legendary freedom fighter of India has wrongly referred to Niralamba Swami as the author of the book- ‘Common Sense.’ The fact is that only the Introduction to the book was written by Niralamba Swami.

Prakashanand Saraswati

Swami Prakashanand Saraswati was of the lineage of the great Vashnavite sage of West Bengal Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534).

Ramakrishna Math and Mission, Bhubaneswar

Besides Swami Brahmananda, the Math was visited by Swami Shivananda, Swami Premananda, Swami Niranjanananda,and Swami Vijnanananda.

Salakapurusa

Jaini traces the origin of this list of brothers to the Jinacaritra (lives of the Jinas) by Bhadrabahu swami (3-4th century BCE).

Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai

Several eminent monks of the order such as Swami Ashokananda, Swami Prabhavananda, Swami Akhilananda and many others have lived and performed intense spiritual practices in this building.

Swadeshi movement

Others of late in the movement include the likes of Rajiv Dixit and Swami Ramdev.

Swami Bhuteshananda

He was bestowed with the vows of Brahmacharya by Swami Shivananda in 1923 on Holy mother's birthday, and was named 'Priya Chaitanya'.

Swami Gahanananda

Swami Gahanananda (October, 1916 – November 4, 2007), the 14th President of the Ramakrishna Order, was born in the village of Paharpur in Sylhet District (now in Bangladesh) in October 1916.

Swami Shuddhananda

He along with Swami Saradananda edited "Sri Sri Mayer Katha", which was subsequently translated into English under the title "The Gospel of Holy Mother".

Swami Shyam

In 1986, at the First International Yog Conference in New Delhi, Swami Shyam was awarded the Yog Shiromani Award by the President of India, Giani Zail Singh, for his work in the field of meditation and Self Realization and the 1974 Integrity Award presented by Geoff Stirling on behalf of Apache Communications in Gander, Newfoundland.

Swami Vivekananda Road metro station

Swami Vivekananda Road, commonly referred to by the abbreviation SV Road, is a station on the Purple Line of the Namma Metro in Bangalore, India.

Swami Vivekananda Youth Employment Week

Swami Vivekananda Youth Employment Week was a weeklong youth employment festival organized in Gujarat, India, in April 2012.

Tanya Datta

Tanya made her TV debut in 2004, where she investigated claims of sexual abuse and murder against one of India’s most powerful Godmen, Sai Baba in a programme for BBC2 entitled 'The Secret Swami'.

The Master as I Saw Him

The Master as I Saw Him: Being pages of the life of the Swami Vivekananda is a 1910 book written by Sister Nivedita.

The Study Society

Nevertheless, it was not until Dr Roles was introduced to Swami Shantanand Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath—the head of the Advaita tradition in Northern India whose teaching of the non-dual philosophy of the Vedanta complemented and completed all he had learnt before—that he became convinced that his search was over.

Trailanga Swami

After practicing sadhana (spiritual practice) for twenty years, he met his preceptor swami, Bhagirathananda Saraswati, in 1679 from Punjab.

V. D. Swami

Venkatarama Dorai Swami (1910–1993) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who was one of the founders of the eye hospital Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai.

Varaha

It is located on the shores of a temple pond, called the Swami Pushkarini, in Tirumala, near Tirupati; to the north of the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple (another temple of Vishnu in the form of Venkateswara).

Vedanta Society of Southern California

Swami Prabhavananda came to Los Angeles in 1929 from Portland, Oregon, and formally established the society as a non-profit corporation in 1934.

Zirakpur

A few engineering colleges are located close by, including Chitkara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Swami Vivekanand College of Engineering, Gyan Sagar Medical College, Shaheed Udham Singh College of Engineering & Technology.


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