Swami Vivekananda 1863-1902

5. From the Old World to the New Swami Vivekananda went by way of Ceylon, Penang, Singapore, Hongkong, and then visited Canton and Nagasaki. From there he went by land to Yokohama, seeing Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo. The Swami gradually accustomed himself to the life on board the ship. His rich imaginative nature saw beauty, in a thousand forms, in the swelling and falling of

4. A wandering monk Soon a tendency to embrace a wandering life, according to the traditions of monks, was most irresistibly felt by most of these young monks. Naren, in spite of his anxiety to maintain the ties of uniting the brotherhood, was himself tormented with the same desire to strike out into the unknown paths of the monks’ life and to lose himself in

3. Transformation It was the abiding confidence of Śrī Ramakrishna in the integrity of Naren’s character as also the Master’s selfless love for him that conquered his powerful heart. With the growing intimacy with the Master, Naren’s tendency to resist lessened and eventually led to complete self-surrender. Afterwards Naren often said: “Śrī Ramakrishna was the only person who, ever since he had met me, believed

2. Meeting with Śrī Ramakrishna We have seen something of the religious disposition of Narendra, his love for gods and goddesses, and his tendency to meditate. But as his intellectual horizon began to widen and he came more and more in contact with Western philosophy and science, Narendra Nāth began to question his youthful theism and orthodox beliefs. Gradually his doubts and questionings took the

Swami Vivekananda | Life Story

This is the series of articles dedicated to legendary Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902) born as Narendra Nāth Datta – the beloved disciple of the great Bengal Saint Śrī Ramakrishna and the foremost leader and teacher of disciples after Ramakrishna’s passing away. Swami Vivekananda was among the first Vedāntic teachers who travelled several times to USA and England and other European

Human Representations of Divine Love | Vivekananda

The love which is in you, if it is given to any human being, will sooner or later bring pain and sorrow as the result. Our love must, therefore, be given to the Highest One, who never dies and who never changes—to Him, in the ocean of whose love there is neither ebb nor flow.Love must get to its right destination; it must go unto

God of Love is His Own Proof | Vivekananda

When the devotee has reached this point, he is no more impelled to ask whether God can be demonstrated or not, whether He is omnipotent and omniscient or not. To him He is only the God of Love: He is the highest ideal of love, and that is sufficient for all his purposes; He, as love, is self-evident; it requires no proofs to demonstrate the

3 Characteristics of Love

As long as there is in us any idea of deriving this or that favour from God in return for our respect and allegiance to Him,there can be no true love growing in our hearts. The second characteristic of love is that love knows no fear and True love never comes until the object of our love becomes to us our highest Ideal.

Highest Knowledge and Love are One | Vivekananda

The Upanishads distinguish between a higher knowledge and a lower knowledge; and to the Bhakta there is really no difference between this higher knowledge and his higher love (Para-Bhakti). Of these the Lower (knowledge) consists of all conditioned disciplines, the Higher (knowledge) is that by which that unchangeable is known.

Self-Surrender to Divine Will

If you know that you are positively other than your body, you have then none to fight with or struggle against; you are dead to all ideas of selfishness.So the Bhakta declares that we have to hold ourselves as if we are altogether dead to all the things of the world; and that is indeed self-surrender. Let things come as they may.

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