Swami Vivekananda
Vivekananda Memorial
Place: Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu. Significance: A magnificent memorial of Vivekananda built on a rocky islet Best Time to Visit: Throughout the year Timings : Open on all days except Tuesday, from 0700 - 1100 and 1400 - 1700
LOCATION: CHENNAI
The Government of Tamil Nadu named the Ice House as "Vivekanandar Illam", during 1963, the Centenary year of Swami Vivekananda.
Datta Ancestral Home - Birthplace of Vivekananda
Government of India Author: Srijata Saha Sahoo Publication: Press Information Bureau Date: October 1, 2004
Pundit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Vivekananda said of him, "There is not a man of my age in Northern India, on whom his shadow has not fallen."
Vivekananda: A biography by Swami Nikhilananda
Swami Vivekananda disembarked in Bombay and immediately entrained for Calcutta, arriving at the Belur Math late in the evening of December 9, 1900. The Swami had not informed anybody of his return. The gate of the monastery was locked for the night. He heard the dinner bell, and in his eagernes
Vivekananda: A biography by Swami Nikhilananda
On December 16, 1898, Swami Vivekananda announced his plan to go to the West to inspect the work he had founded and to fan the flame. The devotees and friends welcomed the idea since they thought the sea voyage would restore his failing health. He planned to take with him Sister Nivedita and Sw
Vivekananda: A biography by Swami Nikhilananda
From May 1897 to the end of that year, the Swami travelled and lectured extensively in Northern India. The physicians had advised him to go as soon as possible to Almora, where the air was dry and cool, and he had been invited by prominent people in Northern India to give discourses on Hinduism
Vivekananda: A biography by Swami Nikhilananda
Swami Vivekananda enjoyed the sea voyage back to India, relaxing from his strenuous activities in the West. But his mind was full of ideas regarding his future plan of work in his motherland. There were on the boat, among other passengers, two Christian missionaries who, in the course of a heat
Vivekananda: A biography by Swami Nikhilananda
For some time Swami Vivekananda had been planning a visit to London. He wished to sow the seed of Vedanta in the capital of the mighty British Empire. Miss Henrietta Müller had extended to him a cordial invitation to come to London, and Mr. E.T. Sturdy had requested him to stay at his home ther
Vivekananda: A biography by Swami Nikhilananda
After the meetings of the Parliament of Religions were concluded, Swami Vivekananda, as already noted, under took a series of apostolic campaigns in order to sow the seed of the Vedantic truths in the ready soil of America. Soon he discovered that the lecture bureau was exploiting him. Further,
Vivekananda: A biography by Swami Nikhilananda
On Monday, September 11, 1893 the Parliament of Religions opened its deliberations with due solemnity. This great meeting was an adjunct of the World's Columbian Exposition, which had been organized to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
Vivekananda: A biography by Swami Nikhilananda
At Cape Comorin the Swami became as excited as a child. He rushed to the temple to worship the Divine Mother. He prostrated himself before the Virgin Goddess. As he came out and looked at the sea his eyes fell on a rock. Swimming to the islet through shark-infested waters, he sat on a stone. Hi