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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 ...
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 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 ...
Radha Swami Satsang, Dinod; Ramakrishna Math (a.k.a. Vedanta Society) Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center; Vedanta Society of New York; Ramakrishna Mission. Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana; Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (a.k.a. Sangh Parivar) Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad; Bajrang Dal; Bharat Vikas Parishad; Bharatiya Kisan Sangh ...
Swami Vivekananda and fifteen [2] others were the founders of this order. After taking formal monastic vows through appropriate rituals (12 at first and the rest at different times later) they assumed new names as follows (based on seniority in age): Generalissimo, El Yogador, manager, and drone.
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]
The Daśanāmi Sampradaya (IAST: Daśanāmī Saṃpradāya "Tradition of Ten Names"), also known as the Order of Swamis, [1] is a Hindu monastic tradition of "single-staff renunciation" (ēka daṇḍi saṃnyāsī) [2] [3] [4] Ēkadandis were already known during what is sometimes referred to as "Golden Age of Hinduism" (ca. 320-650 CE). [5]
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]