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unusual facts about Swami Vivekananda



An Indian Study of Love and Death

Josephine MacLeod, a friend and devotee of Swami Vivekananda asked him how best she could help him and got the reply to "Love India".

Andavan Kattalai

Prof. Krishnan (Sivaji Ganesan) is a role model; honest and austere, he is a staunch follower of Swami Vivekananda.

Annie Rix Militz

At the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, she met the Hindu teacher Swami Vivekananda, an event that influenced her to turn away from her formerly Christian view of New Thought to become inclusively interfaith.

Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached

The 1998 film Swami Vivekananda, directed by G. V. Iyer, ends with this quote where Mammootty gives a brief speech on Vivekananda and his ideals and concludes the speech with this quote.

Brajendra Nath Seal

And along with his better known classmate and friend Narendranath Dutta, the future Swami Vivekananda, he regularly attended meetings of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.

Budge Budge

Hindu evangelist Swami Vivekananda landed at Budge Budge ferry ghat in 1897 when he returned from his Chicago visit.

Daridra Narayana

Daridra Narayana or Daridranarayana or Daridra Narayan is an axiom enunciated by Swami Vivekananda espousing that the service of the poor is equivalent in importance and piety to the service of God.

Ethnosymbolism

Such conclusion of features of cultural nationalism is based upon Hutchinson's observation of nationalism of late nineteenth century India and China, respectively represented by Swami Vivekananda and Liang Qichao.

Gour Govinda Ray

In his last book, published shortly before his death, he dealt with the philosophy of the Vedanta, in a way that “resembled the neo-Vedantic lectures” of Swami Vivekananda and Brahmabandhab Upadhyay.

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.

J. J. Goodwin

Josiah John Goodwin (20 September 1870 – 2 June 1898) was a British stenographer and a disciple of Indian philosopher Swami Vivekananda.

Karanprayag

Swami Vivekananda meditated here for eighteen days with his Guru Bhai, Guru Turianand ji and Akharanand ji.

Lal Mani Joshi

For instance, he was very critical of Swami Vivekananda’s positions towards Buddhism, and also declared that celebrated exponents of the Sophia Perennis such as A. K. Coomaraswamy had not understood Buddhism properly.

M. Bhaktavatsalam

In August 1963, M. S. Golwalkar, the Sarsangchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh established a Swami Vivekananda Centenary Committee and a Vivekananda Rock Memorial Committee and appointed Eknath Ranade as its Secretary.

P. Parameswaran

Well entrenched in the philosophy of Vedas, Upanishads and Gita, he has followed in detail the thoughts and writings of Western thinkers like Karl Marx and Arnold Toynbee and the Indian seers like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Sree Narayana Guru, Mahatma Gandhi and Deendayal Upadhyaya.

Patny

This was also where Swami Vivekananda addressed a large gathering in 1893 before he left for Chicago.

Ra Ganapati

Over another 25 years, after leaving Kalki, he wrote a number of books and articles touching on the life and deeds of religious luminaries Kanchi Mahaswamigal, Sathya Sai Baba, Swami Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi, Yogi Ramsuratkumar, and others.

Ramakrishna mission and ramkrishna math

The temple Ramakrishna Mission is an architecture which was founded by Swami Vivekananda in 13th February 1916 and the Ramakrishna Math was founded by Swami Brakkhanananda .

Sankari Prasad Basu

He is a researcher on Swami Vivekananda and his books on the subject include Sahashya Vivekananda and Bandhu Vivekananda.

Shobhabazar

It was in the Shobhabazar Rajbari dalan (courtyard) that Swami Vivekananda was accorded a civic reception after his return from the Parliament of the World's Religions at Chicago.

Smt. Ramkuwar Devi Fomra Vivekananda Vidyalaya

It is an English medium school, affiliated to CBSE, New Delhi and a unit of the Vivekananda Educational Society, a non-profit, service organisation which has been inspired by the principles of Swami Vivekananda.

Sudhir Kakar

Psychoanalyst Alan Roland (2009) writes that when Kakar applies his psychoanalytic understanding to these "three spiritual figures Swami Vivekananda, Gandhi, Ramakrishna", his analyses are as "fully reductionistic as those of Jeffrey Masson".

Surendranath College

Swami Vivekananda delivered his first address in Calcutta from the rostrum of this college on his return from Chicago after his famous deliverance at the Parliament of the World's Religions.

Swami Anand

He was acquainted with the classical and folk traditions of the Gujarati, Marathi and Sanskrit languages and was influenced by the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Max Muller, Walt Whitman, Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda.

Ulundurpet taluka

The ashram is managed by ascetic sisters, the disciples of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda.

Vivek Express

These trains were started to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, to be held in 2013.

Vivekananda in California

Vivekananda, the 19th-century Indian monk, came to Los Angeles, California in 1899 during his second visit to the West.

Vivekanandar Illam

Photo Exhibit of Swami Vivekananda's life, from his childhood, training under Sri Ramakrishna, itinerant days, his appearance at the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893, return to India, triumphal reception given in Madras and other parts of India, founding of Ramakrishna Mission, his second visit to the West, return to India and passing away in 1902.


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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.

A bilingual film The Light: Swami Vivekananda was made in India as tribute to Swami Vivekananda on his 150th birth anniversary.

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.

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.

Notes of some wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda

Notes of some wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda (1913) is an English language book written by Sister Nivedita.

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.

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.