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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]
According to traditional accounts, before his death, Ramakrishna transferred his spiritual powers to Vivekananda, and assured him of his avataric status. Requesting other monastic disciples to look upon Vivekananda as their leader, [ 9 ] [ 135 ] Ramakrishna asked Vivekananda to look after the welfare of the disciples, saying, "keep my boys ...
Mrinalini Mata, a direct disciple of Yogananda, was the president and spiritual head of Self-Realization Fellowship /Yogoda Satsanga Society of India from January 9, 2011, until her death on August 3, 2017. She, too, was personally chosen and trained by Yogananda to help guide the dissemination of his teachings after his death. [86]
At the time of his death, Chinmayananda was to have been a featured speaker at the World Vision 2000 Global Conference in Washington, D.C., from 6 to 8 August, staged by the VHP to mark the centenary of Swami Vivekananda's 1893 address to the Parliament of World Religions.
Sister Christine or Christina Greenstidel [1] (17 August 1866 – 27 March 1930) [2] was a school teacher, and close friend and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. [3] On 24 February 1894, Christine attended a lecture of Vivekananda in Detroit, United States which inspired her.
Narendranath Dutta, his fifth child and first son, who later became famous as Swami Vivekananda, was born in 1863. [ 5 ] In 1866 he applied for the post of proctor to Barnes Peacock , the first Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court .
After the death of Ramakrishna in 1886, Narendranath Datta (Pre-monastic name of Swami Vivekananda) and other disciples founded their first monastery at Baranagar. In 1888, Narendranath Datta left the monastery as a parivrajaka (meaning: "the Hindu religious life of a wandering monk") "without fixed abode, without ties, independent and ...
Swami Vivekananda attempted to explain to him that Hindu worship is symbolic worship, but failed to make the king understand. Then Swami Vivekananda saw a painting hanging on the wall, it was the a painting of the Singh's deceased father and asked him to spit on it. Singh became angry and retorted how he could spit on his father.