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  Swami Vivekananda —
Swami Vivekananda was a towering spiritual personality who awakened the slumbering Indian consciousness with his soul stirring vision of a dynamic spirituality.
Swami Vivekananda was a close disciple of India’s great God realised Saint, Sri Ramakrishna's Paramahansa, who lived during the 19th Century in a suburb of Calcutta.
Vivekananda proved to be the articulate and powerful messenger of Ramakrishna’s realisation.
www.writespirit.net /authors/swami_vivekananda   (230 words)

  
  Swami Vivekananda
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA'S inspiring personality was well known both in India and in America during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth.
In his own motherland Vivekananda is regarded as the patriot saint of modern India and an inspirer of her dormant national consciousness, To the Hindus he preached the ideal of a strength-giving and man-making religion.
Swami Vivekananda once spoke of himself as a "condensed India." His life and teachings are of inestimable value to the West for an understanding of the mind of Asia.
www.ramakrishna.org /sv.htm   (645 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was the foremost disciple of Ramakrishna and a world spokesperson for Vedanta.
Swami Vivekananda represented Hinduism at the first World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 where he was an instant success.
After his first visit to the West, Swami Vivekananda returned to India and founded the Ramakrishna Order in 1898.
www.vedanta.org /rko/vivekananda/sv_bio.html   (169 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda was born in an educated and well-to-do family in Calcutta, on 12th January 1863.
She inspired the latent virtues of fearlessness, honesty, justice, and devotion in her son; Narendra as Swami Vivekananda was called in his childhood.
What was happening was that as soon as Swami Vivekananda entered the temple he was elevated to such a wonderful state of mind and consciousness that the whole world including money, material comfort, and food lost all their value.
www.angelfire.com /realm/bodhisattva/vivekananda.html   (4583 words)

  
 Letters of Swami Vivekananda - Frank Parlato Jr.
You will be pleased to know that the Swami has returned and will hold a class tomorrow as usual, He asked me to notify the members of the classes, so as I fortunately had the list of the Wed.
The estimate against Vivekananda has been serious because of remarks repeated from Mozoomdar, Lyman Abbott and Prof Estlin Carpenter, remarks that have come directly to me, and from others as well as these.
Clergymen, both smokers and drinkers, have spoken to me most sharply of him, the most serious scandals unreservedly repeated in Brooklyn by the Ramabai people were met and turned to his credit, as the friends quoted against him wrote that his presence had been a benediction to old and young of their house....
www.vivekananda.net /LettersToVivekananda.html   (848 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda at the World Congress of Religions of 1893
In this famous speech, Swami Vivekananda spoke of his vision for an end to violence and fanaticism.
Notable among these was the message given by Swami Vivekananda at the World Parliament of Religions in 1893.
Swami Vivekananda’s standing ovation: Swami Vivekananda's opening talk is a benchmark, in that he was one of the earlier teachers to come to America from the East, and the first swami to visit America.
www.swamij.com /swami-vivekananda-1893.htm   (1050 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda - Great Indians
Swami Vivekananda traveled the length and breadth of the country, spreading His master's message.
In September 1893, Swami Vivekananda participated in 'Parliament of Religions' held in Chicago, U.S.A. He spoke on the Hindu religion and left his audience spellbound.
Swami Vivekananda wrote several letters expressing his social, religious and spiritual views.
www.indiaparenting.com /stories/greatindians/gi011.shtml   (502 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda and the Ramakrishna movement
The success of Swami Vivekananda began when he represented Hinduism at an international religion congress, which was held in 1893 in Chicago, USA.
Vivekananda demonstrated India as a tolerant society, which allows different sects to live together under one roof of Hinduism and as a society, which also accepted in it people of other religions.
Some of Swami Vivekananda’s preachings were interpreted also by the British as hints to act against the British.
adaniel.tripod.com /ramakrishna.htm   (343 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda's gospel was one of hope, faith and strength.
He never succumbed to despair, for he knew that India was capable of expansion and growth.
One afternoon, when he had been telling us of the glory of renunciation, of the joy and freedom of those of the ochre robe, he suddenly left us, and in a short time he had written his Song of the Sannyasin, a very passion of sacrifice and renunciation.
www.divyajivan.org /swami_vivekananda.htm   (219 words)

  
 SWAMI VIVEKANADA, LIFE AND TEACHINGS
One of the most significant contributions of Swami Vivekananda to the modern world is his interpretation of religion as a universal experience of transcendent Reality, common to all humanity.
Vivekananda’s concept of ‘potential divinity of the soul’ gives a new, ennobling concept of man. The present age is the age of humanism which holds that man should be the chief concern and centre of all activities and thinking.
It was, however, Swami Vivekananda who revealed the true foundations of this culture and thus clearly defined and strengthened the sense of unity as a nation.
belurmath.org /swamivivekananda.htm   (3425 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda and Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Vivekananda once said that if anyone wants to understand his sagacity and his ability, he must first himself become an able and sagacious person.
Vivekananda strove to promote peace and human brotherhood on the spiritual foundation of the Vedantic Oneness of existence.
The story about the rebirth of Swami Vivekananda and his future involvment in the Sai Mission is well documented in the book "Sai Inner Views and Insight" by Howard Murphet, the well know and renowned worldwide author and devotee of Bhagavan Baba.
www.saibaba.ws /articles1/vivekanandasaibaba.htm   (2050 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda and the Buddhism   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Vivekananda was obviously afraid of the Buddhist monks because they were making Dharma and Moksha alternative lifestyles, in such a way diverting the people from their mundane duties and we can say in this way initiating 'Hindoo' escapism.
Swami Vivekananda attributes to the lessons Buddhas an elementary value for the Hindu Society: they are a necessary part of the Hindu Dharma, they are a socio-ethical engine required by the philosophical strength of the Brahmins: "Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism.
The Swami's vision of an free alliance of all religiously developed individuals, whatever macro-culture they may belong to, the global Brahmanisation, is the irenical counter-conception to the aggressive ideology of religious war called clash of civilisations and to all the other agitation of splitting the religious people.
www.hvk.org /articles/0700/12.html   (3213 words)

  
 Stanford Hindu Students Council
Swami Vivekananda was the first monk to bring Hinduism to the western world, when he attended the World Parliament of Religions, in Chicago, 1893.
Prior to becoming a monk, the Swami was an atheist with a western education in Kolkata.
Swami Vivekananda offers a unique window to Hinduism in that he has written one of the most intelligible summaries of Hinduism in modern times in English in a logical and scientific manner.
www.stanford.edu /group/hsc/vivekananda.html   (446 words)

  
 AEGiS-PRn: India's Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM) Partners With AIDS Healthcare Foundation Global Immunity ...
Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM), is a registered, voluntary social service organization started by a group of medicos of Mysore Medical College in the year 1984.
Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement has been active in the field of HIV/AIDS for nearly 5 years and has been pioneering the cause of prevention and capacity building in rural and tribal areas.
At Koppal, Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement's collaborator, an NGO named Samrakasha runs a 15-bed facility for care and support of people living with HIV/AIDS.
www.aegis.com /news/pr/2004/PR040905.html   (1175 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda
Vivekananda explains the universe as an organic unity.
All phenomena, from the amoeba to mankind's behaviour are part of the evolution of this single entity known as Brahman.
Vivekananda speaks of an expanding universe emerging from of 'primal state of equilibrium.' Unthinkable at the time, scientists now also talk of an expanding universe that was once perfectly symmetrical and unimaginably small.
www.geocities.com /player2000gi/vivekananda.htm   (1712 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda
Vivekananda observed the imbalance in society and tyranny in the name of caste.
Vivekananda went to Madras and spoke about his plans for India and Hinduism to the young men of Madras.
Vivekananda was a renowned thinker in his own right.
www.thaiexotictreasures.com /swami_vivekananda.html   (2170 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
In 1893, Swami Vivekananda went to America to attend the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
Swami Vivekananda's powerful personality and his passionate call of service of the poor, is still influencing people all over India and the world.
Swami Vivekananda arrived in America penniless and depending only on God's Grace.
www.sivanandadlshq.org /saints/vivekananda.htm   (607 words)

  
 Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick | Swami Vivekananda   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Born Narendranath Dutta, in Kolkata, India, he became famous as Swami Vivekananda, when he became the chief disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
His books (compiled from lectures given around the world) on the four Yogas are very influential and still seen as fundamental texts for anyone interested in the Hindu practice of Yoga.
Even the desire for personal salvation has to be given up, and only tireless work for the salvation of others is the true mark of the enlightened person.
www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Swami_Vivekananda   (718 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Raja-Yoga: Books: Swami Vivekananda   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Swami Vivekananda, India's first spiritual and cultural ambassador to the West, came to represent the religions of India at the World Parliament of Religions, held at Chicago in connection with the World's Fair (Columbian Exposition) of 1893.
In 1976 on the occasion of the American Bicentennial, Swami Vivekananda was honored by the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery as one who came to America from abroad during the past 200 years and made a significant impact on its spiritual development.
Upon his return to India, Swami Vivekananda founded The Ramakrishna Order of India in the name of his teacher, Sri Ramakrishna, who is regarded as the Prophet of Harmony of Religions.
www.amazon.ca /Raja-Yoga-Swami-Vivekananda/dp/091120623X   (891 words)

  
 APRA: Swami Vivekananda   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was the founder of the Ramakrishna Order and the first native Hindu practitioner of yoga to address an American audience.
… When the Swami related these incidents to a Western disciple, he was promptly asked why he did not tell people that he was not a negro but a Hindu.
I did not come to earth for that.’ … He was scornful in his repudiation of the pseudo-ethnology of privileged races.” Vivekananda was a pioneer, a warrior, a cross-cultural ambassador, a widely read intellectual and rationalist, as well as an unconventional and visionary thinker and poet, an illuminated yoga master, and a profoundly spiritual personality.
www.adrianpiper.com /yoga/vivekananda.shtml   (307 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda: On Darwin, Evolution, and the Perfect Man
So striking was the impact of Swami Vivekananda's words and presence on those gathered at the conference that many say the beginning of the modern East-West spiritual dialogue can be traced back to that summer day in Chicago more than a century ago.
A student of the renowned Indian spiritual master Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda was the first great Hindu teacher to bring the message of the mystical East to the Western world, opening doors that many more would walk through in the twentieth century.
But what we did not know was that he was also one of the first Eastern teachers to grapple with Darwin's evolutionary theory and to formulate a Hindu philosophy that sought to embrace the emerging evolutionary worldview of the Western scientific community.
www.wie.org /j21/vivekananda.asp   (584 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda — Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad
But Vivekananda is also renowned as a thinker in his own right.
Although social customs had been formed in the past with religious sanction, it was not now the business of religion to interfere with matters such as marriage, inheritance and so on.
The birthday of Swami Vivekananda 10 Jan.07, a report.
www.rkmath.org /guidinglights/vivekananda   (2572 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda: A life - Sify.com
It was at this time that Narendra came to be known as Swami Vivekananda.
According to him, a few educated men and women could not solve the problem of the country; the mass power had to be harnessed for the task.
Though Vivekananda was hesitant at the beginning he eventually agreed to go.
www.sify.com /news/othernews/fullstory.php?id=13511643   (810 words)

  
 Swami Vivekananda — richardpettinger.com
He was born in the 19th Century and was one of the first Indian Guru's to travel to America.
He is strongly admired in his native India for inspiring his countrymen to aspire to higher ideals.
" Vivekananda was a soul of puissance if ever there was one, a very lion among men, but the definite work he has left behind is quite incommensurate with our impression of his creative might and energy.
www.richardpettinger.com /spirituality/swami-vivekananda   (443 words)

  
 Ramakrishna Mission Residential College Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (1863 - 1902) was a preacher of 'Divinity in Man'.
An ardent believer in Advaita, Vivekananda also realised and recognised the dualistic as well as qualified non-dualistic faiths that were lived and approved by the Master.
He presented the quintessence of Vedanta in the 1893 Parliament of Religions in Chicago, America, and, the rest is history.
www.rkmcnarendrapur.org /url/swami_vivekananda.htm   (312 words)

  
 Sarada Ramakrishna Vivekananda - Swami Vivekananda   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Criticized for this and for teaching the Vedic wisdom to foreigners, the swami explained that the lover of God has no caste restrictions that the devotees of the Lord form their own caste.
The Swami's mission in the West is well-documented.
Making contact with thousands of people via lectures, discourses, classes on Yoga and philosophy, informal meetings and personal interviews, he was a man that combined the fine art of mature detachment with a refined appreciation for the divinity present in human beings and in all things.
www.srv.org /swamiji.html   (1245 words)

  
 Vivekananda Foundation, Vivekananda Network, Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Vivekananda's Quote of the Day
Vivekananda Foundation, Vivekananda Network, Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Vivekananda's Quote of the Day
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.
The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine--and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.
www.vivekananda.org   (80 words)

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