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Swamiji is a 2012 laser show and documentary film directed and produced by Manick Sorcar. [1] Based on the life story of Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902), it is the first laser documentary made on an individual and the first full-length laser documentary ever to be shown in a performing arts center.
[37] [9]: 34 In the afternoon of 5 July, Swami Vivekananda's body was taken for cremation. Vivekananda's body was wrapped in a saffron cloth. Nivedita wished to take a small portion of that cloth so that she could send it as a memento to Josephine MacLeod. Understanding the mind of Nivedita Swami Saradananda asked her to cut a small portion of ...
Statue of Vivekananda at the Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House and Cultural Centre. Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Datta (name shortened to Narendra or Naren) [18] in a Bengali Kayastha family [19] [20] in his ancestral home at 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee Street in Calcutta, [21] the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival. [22]
In a letter written to Swami Ramakrishnananda on 19 March 1894, Vivekananda recalled: [1] My brother, in view of all this, especially of poverty and ignorance, I had no sleep. At Cape Comorin sitting in Mother Kumari's temple, sitting on the last bit of Indian rock—I hit upon a plan: We are so many Sannyasins wandering about, and teaching the ...
Swami Vivekananda describes Kuṇḍalinī briefly in his book Raja Yoga as follows: [32] According to the Yogis, there are two nerve currents in the spinal column, called Pingalâ and Idâ, and a hollow canal called Sushumnâ running through the spinal cord. At the lower end of the hollow canal is what the Yogis call the "Lotus of the Kundalini".
In 1948, she was introduced to the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda movement by Swami Ashokananda. [5] In 1957, Advaita Ashrama published her biography of Swami Vivekananda, Swami Vivekananda in the West: New Discoveries in two volumes, well known in the Vedanta circles, [3] and the book was later greatly expanded and published in six volumes in 1983—87. [9]
Belur Math was established in January 1897, by Swami Vivekananda who was the disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. Swami Vivekananda returned to India from Colombo with a small group of disciples and started work on the two one at Belur, and the others at Mayavati, Almora, Himalayas called the Advaita Ashrama. [3]
This was followed a few months later by a center established by Swami Bon in Berlin, Germany, from where he journeyed to lecture and meet the German academic and political elite. [ 65 ] [ 72 ] On 18 September 1935, the Gaudiya Math and Calcutta dignitaries offered a reception to two German converts, Ernst Georg Schulze and Baron H.E. von Queth ...