Swami Vivekananda
School and College Days
At one time my ideal was to drive a strong pair of horses; at another time I thought, if I could make a certain kind of sweetmeat, I should be perfectly happy; later I imagined that I should be entirely satisfied if I had a wife and children and plenty of money. Today I laugh at all these id
The Vindhya Mountains
The Vindhya Range is a range of hills in central India, which geographically separates the Indian subcontinent into northern India (the Indo-Gangetic plain) and Southern India.
Boyhood Incidences
As a boy I had some white mice . They were kept in a little box in which there were little wheels, and when the mice tried to cross the wheels, the wheels turned and turned, and the mice never got anywhere. So it is with the world and our helping it.
Suresh Chunder Bose. The life of Protap Chunder Mozoomdar
Bengali Era
B.E. stands for Bengali era which followed the Gregorian Calendar by 593 years, 3 months and 14 days.
Books of biographical nature
The original manuscript of Nivedita's diary , since 1972, has been deposited in the Bangiya Sahitya Parisad Library, 243/1, A.P.C. Road , Calcutta : 700 006. Phone : 2350-3743.
Manmath Nath Chatterji, (Comp.)
Hinduism . Madras : Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1943. iv, 109 p. ; 17 cm. English.
Vivekananda's Favorite Scriptural Quotes & his translations
"That wonderful Gita, Margot! Not one note of weakness or discouragement in it!”
VIVEKANANDA'S DEATH:
Was it a coincedence that Vivekananda's Mahasamadhi occurred on this date? As far as we know this fact has not been discussed in the biographies of Vivekananda: But Swami Vivekananda's death occurred a few hours after the aphelion in 1902 (an aphelion is the point on the orbit of the earth, or any o
Vivekananda's blessings
Vivekananda's blessings - as recorded in various letters, lectures and elsewhere....
Makara Sankranti
Makara Sankranti is still celebrated on the last day of the ninth month of Poush and is a harvest festival. It is a celebration of spring on the occasion of the 'ascent' of the sun to the north (Uttarayana). In Maharashtra , Karnataka as well as parts of Andhra, Makara Sankranti is a day of
Swami VIVEKANANDA
Map of the Heavens, Planets, Astrological Chart, Horoscope Swami VIVEKANANDA , born January 12, 1863 at 6:33 AM in Calcutta (Inde)