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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]
The Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Boston was founded in 1909, and is one of the oldest Vedanta Society in North America. It is a branch of Ramakrishna Order founded by Swami Vivekananda. [56] Swami Paramananda founded the Vedanta center in Boston in 1909. In 1941 Swami Akhilananda moved it to its present location at 58 Deerfield Street, Boston ...
4.7 Brahmo Samaj and Swami Narendranath Vivekananda. 4.8 Current status and number of adherents. ... In 1861 the Brahmo Samaj was founded at Lahore by Nobin Roy. [22]
The mission was founded by Ramakrishna's chief disciple Swami Vivekananda on 1 May 1897. [1] The organisation mainly propagates the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta–Advaita Vedanta and four yogic ideals – Jnana, Bhakti, Karma, and Raja yoga.
It came into existence in 1961 as a humble effort to carry out Swami Vivekananda's ideals of education among women. The inaugural meeting to set up the college took place at 33 Nayapatty Road, Kolkata-55, on 10 March 1961. The meeting was presided by most revered Swami Mahadevananda, the then-General Secretary of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission.
Main temple at Ramakrishna Math, Belur. Ramakrishna Math is the administrative legal organization of the Ramakrishna Order, [1] of Daśanāmi Sampradaya.It was set up by sanyasin disciples of Ramakrishna Paramhansa headed by Swami Vivekananda at Baranagar Math in Baranagar, a place near Calcutta (now Kolkata), in 1886.
In 1893, Vivekananda went to the United States and joined the Parliament of the World's Religions held in Chicago. He was a delegate representing Hinduism and India. After the conclusion of the Parliament, he traveled to many American cities including Minneapolis, Memphis, Detroit and New York. Almost everywhere he went he received a cordial ...
Although initially reluctant to consider himself a guru, he eventually taught his disciples and founded the monastic Ramakrishna Order. [8] Ramakrishna died due to throat cancer on the night of 15 August 1886. [9] After his demise, his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda popularized his ideas in India and the West. [10]