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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]
Among them, 4 daughters and 3 sons survived - Haramoni, Swarnamoyee, Kiranbala, Jogindrabala, Narendranath, Mahendranath and Bhupendranath. Narendranath Dutta, his fifth child and first son, who later became famous as Swami Vivekananda, was born in 1863. [5]
In the year 1896, shortly before Swami Vivekananda returned from the West, Hariprasanna joined the Alambazar Math and there he took his monastic vows and came to be known as Swami Vijnanananda. One of my boys in training has been an executive engineer, in charge of a district. That means a very big position here [in India]. He gave it up like ...
India celebrates National Youth Day on the birth anniversary of the great Swami. [1] The first World's Parliament of Religions was held from 11 to 27 September 1893, with delegates from around the world participating. [2] In 2012, a three-day world conference was organized to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. [3]
Swami Vivekananda is a 1998 Indian biographical film directed by G. V. Iyer and produced by T. Subbarami Reddy. [2] It took Iyer 11 years to finish the research work required for the film and to write the screenplay. The film starred Sarvadaman D. Banerjee as Swami Vivekananda, the 19th-century Hindu monk, and Mithun Chakraborty as Ramakrishna ...
Daridra Narayana or Daridranarayana or Daridra Narayan is an axiom enunciated by the late-19th century Indian sage Swami Vivekananda, espousing that service to the poor is equivalent in importance and piety to service to God. This exposition was a result of Vivekananda's wanderings in the country for two years, when he personally experienced ...
It was a decision of the Government of India taken in 1984 to celebrate the birthday of the great Swami Vivekananda, i.e. 12 January, as National Youth Day every year.The Government said that the philosophy of Swamiji and the ideals for which he lived and worked could be a great source of inspiration for the Indian Youth Day.
Bengali Swami Vivekananda has been the primary topic of many films, dramas ad folk-plays. Bengali film director Amar Mullick made two different movies: Swamiji (1949) and its adaptation in Hindi, Swami Vivekananda (1955). The film Swami Vivekananda (1955) is considered a "faithful and memorable documentation feature" on Vivekananda. [49]