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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]
At the age of 12 he was brought to Kolkata for his studies. [2] ... On his arrival in India, he was shocked to hear of the death of Swami Vivekananda. Turiyananda ...
The Prophet of Modern India: A Biography of Swami Vivekananda. Rupa & Company. ISBN 978-81-291-0149-5. Mookherjee, Braja Dulal (2002). The Essence of Bhagavad Gita. Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-81-87504-40-5. MacLean, Katherine (2013). "The Importance of Meditation". Swami Vivekananda: New Perspectives An Anthology on Swami Vivekananda.
Here is a list of selected books of Swami Vivekananda published after his death (1902 ... Swâmi Vivekânanda's contribution to the present age: Satprakashananda (Swami.)
Swami Vivekananda died at 9:10 p.m. on 4 July 1902. On that night, Nivedita dreamed Sri Ramakrishna was leaving his body a second time. [ 37 ] On the next morning, Swami Saradananda from Belur Math sent a monk with a letter to Sister Nivedita and conveying the message of Vivekananda's death.
At the time of death he was 39 years 3 months old. Incidentally, Swami Vivekananda too died at the age of 39. [5] In a letter written to Marhy Hale, on 18 May 1901, Vivekananda informed— [6] The Raja of Khetri died from a fall a few months ago. So you see things are all gloomy with me just now, and my own health is wretched.
At the age of 16, he came to join his older brother at Dakshineswar in a new temple where his brother was working as a priest. In 1856, after his brother's death, Ramakrishna succeeded him as a priest of the Dakshineswar Kali Temple, [3] but Ramakrishna did not concentrate on formal worships. He was in pursuit of the highest spiritual knowledge.
There he sat on the rock and started meditating on India's past, present and future. His meditation on the "last bit of Indian rock" (later known as the Vivekananda Rock Memorial) continued for three days from 25 to 27 December. Swami Vivekananda contemplated on India since Vedic age during his 3 days meditation in Kanya Kumari.