Brief Introduction
Child hood
Encounters With Swami Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna Order of Monks
Amercian Visit
Parliament of Religions Speech
Spritual and phillosophical activities
His Legacy
3. Preface
• Known in East And West-Inspiring Personality
• International Fame: ”Parliament of Religions”
speech
• Preached Rational and Humanistic teachings
• Awakened american consciousness to
Vedantisitic teachings
• Service to humanity and man making religion
4. Formative years
• Early years known as Vireswara
• Wealthy Family
• Very Restless
- Injury Ramakrishna prophecies
• Fancy for wondering monks
• Precocious child
• Undisputed Leader
• Masked to be a leader of men
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6. Incidents
• Looking in the mirror
Rude behaviour
• Never show surprise at anything
Prices and Beggars
• Truth without worry about the result
Mother influence
• Tree With Ghosts
Fearless
8. Student-Teacher
• “When the teacher is ready the master will appear”
• Master-Student love relationship
Training:
• No rigorous training
• Oness of Existence
• Divinty of soul
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Permeation of Whole universe:Touch
9. Student:Master test
• Indifference to gold and coins Swami ramakrishna
• Ignoring Naren
• Inborn Spiritual tendencies
-Thinking highly
-Acting Nobly
-Broadmindeness
-Seeking Truth
-Sceptical Attitude
10. Bad times
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Passing way of father
Poverty
Master love for student
Skipping meals for family
Search for job
Aspersions on his character to Swami
11. Passing away of Swami
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Cancer Struck
Transfer of Spiritual Powers
Revealing Naren‟s mission- Enlightening Humanity
Guiding spirit after Swami
Separation of Body and soul:Near Death Experience
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13. Wondering monk
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Food & Shelter
Training Disciples
Wanted to be free of responsibilities
Travelled all over India
“Monkey Chase”
-Facing Life
• Smoking with an untouchable
14. Mission
• Vedantic brain + Moslem Body
• Pavhari Baba
-Bite from Cobra
-Dog taking his food
• Maharaja-Overcoming his arrogance
• 'Live in the house of your teacher like a cow,„
• 'Regard spiritual discipline in the same way as you
regard the goal
• Travel throughout India
15. Trip to America
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Parliament of religions –Invitation
Unknown Hostess->Future Disciples
Instant Popularity
Sowing the seeds of Vedanata
Admiration for American women
19. Swami Vivekananda‟s Speech at
Chicago
• The invitation of the conference was actually given to
Bhaskara Sethupathi, Raja of Ramnad to attend the
World Parliament of Religions at Chicago.
• But he decided and encouraged Swami Vivekananda,
and said he was the right person to represent Hinduism
20. Swami Vivekananda‟s Speech
• The Parliament of the World's Religions opened on 11
September 1893. Vivekananda gave a brief speech
representing India and Hinduism.
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He began his speech with "Sisters and brothers of
America!". Vivekananda received a two-minute standing
ovation from the crowd of seven thousand
22. Inpiration for youth
• Develop your muscles and brain
• Eat good food and have healthy exercise
• “You will be nearer to Heaven
through football than through the study of the Gita”
• Cultivate manliness
• Faculty of reasoning
23. End
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Strict practices for disciples
Awakening of India through religion
Choose his time, date and place of death
Choose his cremation place
24. Prophecies
• 1897, He said : “India will be free in another fifty years
and freedom will come in an unusual way. A great war
will flare up within twenty years, and if the Western
nations do not give up their stark materialism, another
world war is inevitable.”
• “India, when independent, will embrace the materialism
of the West and attain material prosperity to such an
extent that it will surpass its past records in that field”
25. Prophecies
• “Countries such as America would become increasingly
spiritual because they will have realized from the height
of material prosperity the simple truth that gross
materialism cannot give eternal peace.”
• "No religion in the world can destroy hinduism. Soon
there is going to be a great spiritual light that will spread
throughout the world. That spiritual light will be from
Chennai".
26. Prophecies
• "Advaita philosophy of our Vedanta would be the religion
of all thinking humanity in near future".
• PREDICTION ON CHINESE INVASION.....( World War 3
