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15 unusual facts about Vivekananda


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.

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.

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.

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.

Patny

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

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.

Vivek Express

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

Vivekananda and meditation

Meditation played a very important role in the life and teachings of Vivekananda.

Vivekananda in California

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


Ajit Singh of Khetri

After the death of Ramakrishna, in January 1887 Vivekananda (then Narendranath Datta) and eight other disciples of Ramakrishna took their formal monastic vow at Baranagar math.

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.

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

On 12 January 2013, on the 150 birth anniversary, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi wrote a blog post on his personal website to pay tribute to Vivekananda.

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.

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.

Bhavans Vivekananda College

Bhavan's Vivekananda College popularly Bhavan's Sainikpuri, is a graduate and postgraduate college in Sainikpuri, Hyderabad, India.

Daridra Narayana

Though the term was coined by Vivekananda, it was popularized by Mahatma Gandhi.

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.

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.

Sankari Prasad Basu

He was born in Howrah, West Bengal, and studied at the Howrah Vivekananda Institution.

Smt. Ramkuwar Devi Fomra Vivekananda Vidyalaya

Ramkuwar Devi Fomra Vivekananda Vidyalaya Junior College (SRDFVV) is a co-educational senior secondary school in the suburb of Chromepet, Chennai, India.

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.

Swami Bhuteshananda

During the long spell of twenty-three years as Vice President and President of the Order he travelled to many countries including Singapore, Fiji, Japan, Australia, America, Canada, England, France, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, and carried the ideals and ideas of Ramakrishna-Mother-Vivekananda to innumerable people.

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.

Teachings and philosophy of Swami Vivekananda

Vivekananda was a Hindu monk from India who played significant role in introducing Vedanta to the Western world and also reviving and redefining certain aspect of the religion within India.

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.

Vedanta Society of Southern California

There is a monastery at Trabuco Canyon, 60 miles south of LA, which is also home to a sculpture of Vivekananda.

Vivekananda Institute of Technology

The Vivekananda Institute of Technology is located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Vivekananda Rock Memorial

Vivekananda Rock Memorial is a monument and it is a popular tourist attraction in Vavathurai, Kanyakumari, India.

VKV Shergaon

Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya, Shergoan popularly known as VKV Shergoan is a school that was started in the year 1981 in Shergoan village, 60 km away from Bomdila the HQ of West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh.