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	Swami Vivekananda
		Vivekananda observed the imbalance in society and tyranny in the name of caste.
		Vivekananda was overwhelmed by the reception he received on his return to India.
		Vivekananda did not feel that religion, nor, any force for that matter, should be used forcefully to bring about an ideal society, since this was something that would evolve naturally by individualistic change when the conditions were right.
	www.thaiexotictreasures.com /swami_vivekananda.html (2170 words)

	Swami Vivekananda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vivekananda was born to an orthodox Hindu family in Bengal 1863.
		Vivekananda particularly liked the rational reasoning of the West and was easily dismayed by many of the religious superstitions and the cultural decline that Indian society found itself in.
		Vivekananda proved to be an eloquent exponent of Vedanta and the ideals of all religions.
	www.soulsreality.org /english/Spiritual_Master/Swami_Vivekananda/Swami_Vivekananda.htm (1408 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Swami Vivekananda
		Swami Vivekananda स्वामी विवेकानन्द (Narendranath Dutta नरेन्द्रनाथ दत्त) (January 12, 1863 – July 4, 1902) is considered one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of the Hindu religion.
		Swami Vivekananda belonged to that branch of Vedanta that held that no-one can be truly free until all of us are.
		Swami Vivekananda was the first Asian to be invited to accept the chair of Oriental Philosophy at the Harvard University.
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Swami_Vivekananda (718 words)

	Swami Vivekananda — Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad
		Swami Vivekananda (Jan 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902) is considered one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of the Hindu religion.
		Swami Vivekananda was born Narendranath Dutta, son of a well-known lawyer in Calcutta, Biswanath Dutta, and a very intelligent and pious lady, Bhuvaneswari Devi, in the year 1863.
		Vivekananda was a socialist at heart, but he did not feel that religion should be used forcefully to bring about an ideal socialist society, since this was something that would evolve naturally by individualistic change when the conditions were right.
	www.rkmath.org /guidinglights/vivekananda (2555 words)

	Vivekananda
		As Narendra Nath Datta, Swami Vivekananda was the chief disciple of Sri Ramakrishna.
		It is certainly arguable that Vivekananda ascribed to the colonial representation of the Bengali/India as a man given to effeminacy and without the 'manly' characteristics so highly esteemed in Victorian England, just as he perceived that Indian spirituality had been reduced to devotionalism.
		Vivekananda may not have been without a vision of India's spiritual conquest of the world, and it is perhaps as a testament to that highly problematic vision, which would embrace the idea of a 'Greater India', that India recently built the Vivekananda Rock Memorial just south of Kanyakumari, India's southern most tip.
	www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/Hinduism/vivekananda.htm (968 words)

	Stripping the Gurus—The Handsome Duckling
		A total stranger to the world of extroverted, educated, and affluent women, he was charmed by their generosity, kindness, and frankly unqualified admiration for and obsession with a handsome, young, witty, and somewhat enchantingly naïve virgin male from a distant land (Sil, 1997).
		It was not long after that announcement that Vivekananda was proudly claiming to have “helped on the tide of Vedanta which is flooding the world.” He was likewise soon predicting that “before ten years elapse a vast majority of the English people will be Vedantic” (in Sil, 1997).
		Vivekananda approached the solution of the problem of social inequality from the position of Utopian Socialism, placing hopes on the good will and magnanimity of the propertied classes.
	www.strippingthegurus.com /stgsamplechapters/vivekananda.asp (1243 words)

	Swami Vivekananda
		Swami Vivekananda met his to be Mentor, Sri Ramakrishna, in the year 1881 at the age of eighteen.
		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.
		Swami Vivekananda was to become their leader and see to it that they were properly trained and cared for as sannyasins.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/bodhisattva/vivekananda.html (4583 words)

	Swami Vivekananda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vivekananda was a sincere seeker of God, and on His next visit to Ramakrishna, he asked Him if He had ever seen God.
		Vivekananda was continuing his college education and visiting Ramakrishna on a regular basis.
		Vivekananda traveled throughout India and was then guided to America to attend a great meeting of the "parliament of religions" in Chicago.
	iamuniversity.org /projects/lodges/eastern/vivekananda.html (2194 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)

	Biography - Swami Vivekananda —
		In 1897 Swami Vivekananda arrived in America as an anonymous and penniless sannyasin (wandering monk).
		Sri Ramakrishna was able to awaken the dormant spiritual consciousness in his beloved disciple and Vivekananda soon began to experience profound states of consciousness and Samadhi.
		Instead Vivekananda spoke with great sincerity about the harmony of world religions and the common spirituality of humanity.
	writespirit.net /authors/swami_vivekananda/biography-swami-vivekananda (1422 words)

	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 (218 words)

	Vivekananda’s Raja Yoga (Hinduism)
		Vivekananda criticizes most popular religious ideas to the extent that they are based on faith and belief alone, rather than direct personal experience.
		For example, Vivekananda describes the Kundalini, which is central source of cosmic energy in the body, as "triangular in form." But he also specifically acknowledges that this description is expressed in terms of a "symbolical language" (p.
		Vivekananda suggests that, if the nerves are the body’s electrical wires, so to speak, the Sushumna is like the channel for radio transmission (p.
	www.uwec.edu /beachea/vivekananda.html (1542 words)

	Swami Vivekananda
		A rare soul -SWAMI VIVEKANANDA- was born in Calcutta (India) on 12th of January 1863.
		Swami Vivekananda experienced neo-vedantic culture and evolutionary vision in the wonderful life of Sri Ramakrishna, and he maintained that that was the essential pre-requisite for future survival of civilization.
		Swami Vivekananda was convinced that the blot of apartheid, caste and racial prejudice, exploitation based on privileges, and slave mentality would vanish from the face of the earth if the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna are put in practice.
	www.geocities.com /neovedanta/sv.html (806 words)

	Vivekananda Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Vivekananda of Calcutta (1863-1902) was an Indian reformer, missionary, and spiritual leader who promulgated Indian religious and philosophical values in Europe, England, and the United States, founding the Vedanta Society and the Ramakrishna mission.
		Vivekananda was born in Calcutta of high-caste parents.
		In 1881 Vivekananda met the great Hindu saint Ramakrishna, who recognized the young man's immense talents and finally persuaded him to join his community of disciples.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/vivekananda (467 words)

	Swami Vivekananda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vivekananda was received well at the 1893 World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, where he delivered a series of lectures.
		Vivekananda didn't advocate the emerging area of parapsychology, astrology (one instance can be found in his speech Man the Maker of his Destiny, Complete-Works, Volume 8, Notes of Class Talks and Lectures) saying that this form of curiosity doesn't help in spiritual progress but actually hinders it.
		Vivekananda was a soul of puissance if ever there was one, a very lion among men, but the definitive work he has left behind is quite incommensurate with our impression of his creative might and energy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swami_Vivekananda (3146 words)

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		Vivekananda had a lot of love for the oppressed, the ignorant and the helpless.
		That vivekananda is indeed an ornament to India.
		Rooted in the past and full of pride in India's heritage, Vivekananda was yet modern in his approach to life's problems and was a kind of bridge between the past of India and her present.
	sanskritdocuments.org /all_txt/vivekananda.txt (2232 words)

	Swami Vivekananda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Swami Vivekananda was accepted as a delegate to the Parliament, and when he first arose and addressed the audience as, "Sisters and brothers of America!," the effect was electric.
		Swami Vivekananda wrote what were probably the first books on Yoga in the West-Karma Yoga was published in America in 1896, and Raja Yoga was published later that year in England.
		And yet how many Vivekanandas will be born in time!" He talked cheerfully, walked for several miles with a brother monk, taught the young monks for three hours, ate heartily, made plans for the worship of Kali in the monastery, prayed quietly, and meditated in his room again in the evening.
	www.vedantasociety-chicago.org /FAQs/swami_vivekananda.htm (1131 words)

	Vivekananda Memorial
		On the seaside is built a large, beautiful memorial dedicated to the Indian philosopher, Swami Vivekananda, who is said to have meditated here before setting out as one of India's most important religious crusaders.
		The memorial has been built on the Vivekananda Rock where the great philosopher - guide Swami Vivekananda went into meditation that transformed him into one of the most charismatic spiritual leaders of this century.On this rock stands the "Vivekananda Rock Memorial" built in 1970 with a blend of all the architechtural styles of India.
		Swami Vivekananda sat in meditation on this rock before his journey to the West to spread Hinduism in 1892.
	www.nanjilonline.com /tourism/vivrock.asp (343 words)

	Swami Vivekananda - Audarya Fellowship
		Vivekananda's missionary work in the west was key in showing many westerners, that Hinduism was a tradition that their soul was being called toward.
		Vivekananda and Yogananda helped indian swamis gain respect in the west, to the point where openminded spiritual seekers would come and listen to them.
		In general regard to Vedanta: the Theosophical Society and the American Transcendentalist writers preceded Vivekananda in America, but their message was clouded and occultish in the case of the Theosophists, and freely poetic-literary-interpretive for the Transcendentalists.
	www.audarya-fellowship.com /forums/hare-krishna-discussions/417050-swami-vivekananda.html#post1007314 (961 words)

	Vivekananda by Dr C. S Shah
		A rare soul - Swami Vivekananda - was born in Calcutta (India) on 12th of January 1863.
		She taught Narendra - later to be known as Swami Vivekananda - the true meaning of Hindu Religion.
		Based on the mythological stories from Ramayana and Mahabharata, she introduced Narendra to fearless character of Hanuman, to the divine nature of Sri Rama and Krishna, and values of truthfulness and simplicity.
	www.boloji.com /hinduism/00612.htm (817 words)

	Vivekananda
		Swami Vivekananda or Narendra as he was called then, was born on January 12, 1863.
		On September 11, 1893, Swami Vivekananda attended the Parliament as a delegate to speak.
		Swami Vivekananda was to live for two more years, tirelessly championing the cause of a philosophy that saw God whose cathedral was the human body.
	kaustubh88.tripod.com (2125 words)

	Swami Vivekananda - The Gold Scales
		From an article written by Vivekananda after his visit to Paris, France, in the latter part of the nineteenth century, when the British Empire appeared to be at its height.
		Before Vivekananda went to the West, he travelled about in India for a long time, changing his name to Ramananda and so on to avoid being recognised.
		Vivekananda had advised his fellow disciple not to disclose to Rajnarayan that he himself knew English, and he pretended to have no knowledge of that language, even though he was university educated.
	oaks.nvg.org /lg5ra5.html (2623 words)

	Swami Vivekananda
		Swami Vivekananda was the first monk to bring Hinduism to the western world, when he attended the World Parliament of Religions, in Chicago, 1893.
		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.
		The spirit behind all of his writings is to encourage a questioning mind - Vivekananda himself encourages you to challenge all assumptions and its fine for you to conclude that he wasn't right.
	www.stanford.edu /group/hsc/vivekananda.html (454 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 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.
		Most of the Vedanta Societies which were founded in America and Europe up through the 1930s can trace their origins directly to Vivekananda or the people who heard him speak from 1893 through 1900.
	www.vedanta.org /rko/vivekananda/sv_bio.html (169 words)

	Vivekananda: Lessons In Classical Yoga -- book review
		Swami Vivekananda is relatively obscure today, yet he was one of the great spiritual figures India bequeathed to the modern era.
		Vivekananda in essence opened a treasure chest of the spiritual jewels to the world, giving them freely in words the world would understand.
		"Vivekananda championed the cause of Hinduism in the Parliament of Religions held at Chicago in 1893.
	www.curledup.com /vivekana.htm (2161 words)

	Swami Vivekananda — meditationworkshop.org
		Swami Vivekananda became his disciple, but had again and again strong doubts about his master.
		After the death of Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda became a monk, traveled around India and organised the Sri Ramakrishna Math.
		Swami Vivekananda Poems Selection of Poetry by Swami Vivekananda
	www.meditationworkshop.org /meditation-teachers/swami_vivekananda (364 words)

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