Swami Vivekananda: An orator par excellence JAYESH SURISETTI The time was 6 hours‚ 33 minutes and 33 seconds‚ a few minutes before sunrise. It was the 12th of January‚ 1863‚ Monday. The whole city of Kolkata was gearing up to celebrate the last day of Poush or Makar Sankranti. The chilly breeze of Kolkata’s winters brought good news to the ears of Vishwanath Datta and his wife‚ Bhuvaneswari Devi. Both of them were celebrating the happiest moment of their life as they got the son they had been
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Swami Vivekananda as a contributor in Social Work in India Brajesh Kumar M.A. Social Work in Child Rights 1 Introduction Swami Vivekananda‚ known in his pre-monastic life as Narendranath Datta‚ was born in an affluent family in Kolkata. His father Vishwanath Datta‚ was a successful attorney with interests in a wide range of subjects‚ and his mother‚ Bhuvaneshwari Devi‚ was endowed with deep devotion‚ strong character and other qualities. A precocious boy‚ Narendra excelled in music‚ gymnastics
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Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902) or Narendranath Datta was an Indian Hindu monk‚ a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introducing the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and also in raising interfaith awareness‚ bringing Hinduism to the status of major world religion during the late 19th century. He worked for the revival of Hinduism in India‚ and also contributed to the concept of nationalism in India
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Sisters and Brothers of America‚ It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have given us. I thank you in the name the most ancient order of the monks in the world. I thank you in the name of the mother of religions; and I thank you in the name of the millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects. My thanks‚ also to some of speakers on this platform who‚ referring to the delegates from the Orient‚ have told you that these
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does not find an appropriate place in the curriculum. Therefore students have no opportunity to know about their faith‚ culture and values. The knowledge they gain is mainly bookish and is not backed by practical experience. About a century ago‚ Swami Vivekananda had envisioned a vision on education and had categorically pointed out that true education is not the amount of information that is put into one ’s brain. The human mind is not a bottomless dry well‚ which has to be filled in with buckets
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there. “It is the police!” Jagan said. “They cordoned the ashram” Raghu replied. They came into the lawn. Ashram members closed the main gate. They were not ready to allow the police to enter inside. Police were requesting to hand over the body of Swami Agnijoga. “Now police would apply force.”
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Ashram life in Allahabad “You are Brahmin or not?” Swami Agnijoga asked one day after few months. He was sitting with some of his followers. The place was imposing. Swami Agnijoga was the founder of the ashram. Jagan and Raghu already admitted in the ashram. They had given job of cleaning the ashram and the garden also helping the coock at the kitchen. “I don’t know.” Jagan replied Swami Agnijoga’s question. He was standing just opposite to Swami Ji. “I grew up in rail station. My parents left me
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What do I care if Mohammed was a good man‚ or Buddha! Does that alter my own goodness or evil? Let us be good for our own sake on our own responsibility! Not because some body way back there was good! (Reminisces of Swami Vivekananda p. 273) We are responsible for what we are‚ and whatever we wish ourselves to be‚ we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions‚ it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be
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A CASE STUDY OF TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM IN SWAMI RAMANAND TEERTH MARATHWADA UNIVERSITY NANDED Dr. B.M. Gore*‚ Dr. V.N. Patil**‚ M. M. Joshi *** * Dean‚ Faculty of Education‚ SRTM University‚ Nanded ** Director‚ School of Educational Sciences‚ SRTM University‚ Nanded *** Lecturer‚ School of Educational Sciences‚ SRTM University‚ Nanded
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“Hinduism and Modernity” The writings on Hinduism and modernity by David Smith are an interesting read due to the juxtaposition of two opposite (per the author) concepts filled with examples that are traditional and modern with a spirit of understanding that is the hallmark of modern times. The opening examples of the Ganesha idols drinking milk being ridiculed by a modern day press in India serves well to remind us that our thinking or “theorisation” has become rigidly scientific and we have developed
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