Chronological Life Story of Swami Vivekananda.pdf

Detailed life of Swami Vivekananda in Chronological order.

1. An Indica Course
by
Ravi Om Trivedi
And
GokulmuthuNarayanaswamy

2. Summary Outline of the Course
1.Who is Swami Vivekananda?
2.Life Story of Swami Vivekananda
3.Basic Concepts of Vedanta
4.Application of the Concepts by Four Yogas
(introduction)
5.Deep dive
a.Karma Yoga
b.Raja Yoga
c.Bhakti Yoga
d.Jnana Yoga
6.Big Questions of Life
7.Developing a customized daily practice routine
8.Summary

3. Topic 2 -Life Story

4. Birth -1863
Swami Vivekanandawas born on Monday, January
12th 1863. His exact time of birth was 6:33am, a few
minutes before sunrise.
It was the great Hindu festival called, Makara Samkranti
on that day. He was born to Vishwanath Dutta, a famous
and important attorney and Bhuvaneswari Devi, a pious
lady in the ancestral house.
His great grandfather Rammohan Duttaoriginally built
this house300 years ago, at3 Gourmohan Mukherjee
Street, North Calcutta.
Naming ceremony: Name Given-‘Vireshwar’. For short
they called him-‘Bileh’. Later was called by
‘Narendranath’ or simply ‘Naren’

5. Detailed Timeline -Upto 7 yrs

6. Timeline -Upto 7 years

7. School Days -1871 to 1873

8. School Days -1871 to 1873

9. School Days -1871 to 1873

10. High School Days -1874 to 1876

11. High School Days -1874 to 1876

12. At Raipur -1877 to 1879

14. Youth Days from Age 17 to 18

15. Youth Days from Age 17 to 18

16. Meeting Sri Ramakrishna, 1881 to 1882, 18 to 19 yrs

17. Meeting Sri Ramakrishna, 1881 to 1882, 18 to 19 yrs

18. Disciple in Making, 1882 to 1883, 19 to 20 yrs

19. Disciple in Making, 1882 to 1883, 19 to 20 yrs

20. Sprouts of Renunciation, 1884, 21 yrs old

21. Sprouts of Renunciation, 1884, 21 yrs old

22. Sprouts of Renunciation, 1884, 21 yrs old

23. Sri Ramakrishna’s illness, 1885, 22 yrs

24. Sri Ramakrishna’s illness, 1885, 22 yrs

25. Sri Ramakrishna’s illness, 1885, 22 yrs

26. Last days of Sri Ramkrishna 1885 –1886, Swami Vivekananda, age 22 & 23

27. Last days of Sri Ramkrishna 1885 –1886, Swami Vivekananda, age 22 & 23

28. Ochre Clothes by Ramakrishna Paramhansa -Jan 1886
In 1886, when Ramakrishna
Paramahansawassick-
OnedayGopaldaexpressedadesireto
theMastertodistributesomeochrecloths
androsariestomonks.Onthis,theMaster
replied,‘Youwon’tfindbettermonksthan
theseyoungboyshere.Youmaygive
yourclothesandrosariestothem.’
ThereuponGopaldaplacedabundleof
saffronclothsbeforetheMaster,who
distributedthemamonghisyoung
disciples.Thuswassowntheseedofthe
futureRamakrishnaOrder.

29. Last days of Sri Ramkrishna 1885 –1886, Swami Vivekananda, age 22 & 23

30. Last days of Sri Ramkrishna 1885 –1886, Swami Vivekananda, age 22 & 23

31. Establishing Baranagar Math (1886) -Age 23

32. Establishing Baranagar Math (1886) -Age 23

33. Vows of Sanyaas -1887 -Age 24

34. Vow of Sanyas -Baranagar Math, 30 Jan, 1887

35. Vows of Sanyaas -1887 -Age 24

36. Wandering Begins -1888 -Age 25

37. Wandering Begins -1888 -Age 25

38. Wandering Begins -1888 -Age 25

39. Wandering Begins -1888 -Age 25

40. 1889 -Age 26 -Return after short tour

41. 1889 -Age 26 -Return after short tour

42. 1889 -Age 26 -Return after short tour

43. 1890 -Age 27 -At Ghazipur’s Pavhari baba

44. 1890 -Age 27 -At Ghazipur’s Pavhari baba

45. 1890 -Age 27 -In the Himalayas

46. 1890 -Age 27 -In the Himalayas

47. 1890 -Age 27 -In the Himalayas

48. 1890 -Age 27 -In the Himalayas

49. 1890 -Age 27 -In the Himalayas

50. 1890 -Age 27 -In the Himalayas

51. 1891 -Age 28 -In Delhi & Rajasthan

52. 1891 -Age 28 -In Delhi & Rajasthan

53. 1891 -Age 28 -In Delhi & Rajasthan

54. 1891 -In Delhi & Rajasthan

55. 1891 -In Delhi & Rajasthan

56. 1891 -In Delhi & Rajasthan

57. 1891 -In Delhi & Rajasthan

58. 1892 -Age 29 -Through Western & Southern India

59. 1892 -Age 29 -Through Western & Southern India

60. 1892 -Age 29 -Through Western & Southern India

61. 1892 -Age 29 -Through Western & Southern India

62. 1892 -Age 29 -Through Western & Southern India

63. 1892 -Age 29 -Through Western & Southern India

64. 1892 -Age 29 -Through Western & Southern India

65. 1892 -Age 29 -Through Western & Southern India

66. 1892 -Age 29 -Through Western & Southern India

67. 1893 -1st half -Preparing for the America Visit

68. 1893 -1st half -Preparing for the America Visit

69. 1893 -1st half -Preparing for the America Visit

70. 1893 -1st half -Preparing for the America Visit

71. 1893 -Journey to America

72. 1893 -World Parliament of Religions & Preaching in west
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 of the most ancient order of monks in the world; I thank you in the name of the mother of religions; and I thank you in thename
of millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects.
My thanks, also, to some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates from the Orient, have told you thatthese
men from far-off nations may well claim the honour of bearing to different lands the idea of toleration. I am proud to belong toa
religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, butwe
accept all religions as true.

73. Parliament of Religions, Sept 11 1893
Iamproudtobelongtoanationwhichhasshelteredthepersecutedandtherefugeesofall
religionsandallnationsoftheearth.Iamproudtotellyouthatwehavegatheredinour
bosomthepurestremnantoftheIsraelites,whocametoSouthernIndiaandtookrefugewith
usintheveryyearinwhichtheirholytemplewasshatteredtopiecesbyRomantyranny.Iam
proudtobelongtothereligionwhichhasshelteredandisstillfosteringtheremnantofthe
grand Zoroastrian nation.
Iwillquotetoyou,brethren,afewlinesfromahymnwhichIremembertohaverepeatedfrom
myearliestboyhood,whichiseverydayrepeatedbymillionsofhumanbeings:“Asthe
differentstreamshavingtheirsourcesindifferentplacesallmingletheirwaterinthesea,so,O
Lord,thedifferentpathswhichmentakethroughdifferenttendencies,variousthoughthey
appear,crookedorstraight,allleadtoThee.”Thepresentconvention,whichisoneofthe
mostaugustassemblieseverheld,isinitselfavindication,adeclarationtotheworldofthe
wonderfuldoctrinepreachedintheGita:“WhosoevercomestoMe,throughwhatsoeverform,I
reachhim;allmenarestrugglingthroughpathswhichintheendleadtome.”[BG4.11]
Sectarianism,bigotry,anditshorribledescendant,fanaticism,havelongpossessedthis
beautifulearth.Theyhavefilledtheearthwithviolence,drencheditoftenandoftenwith
humanblood,destroyedcivilisationandsentwholenationstodespair.Haditnotbeenfor
thesehorribledemons,humansocietywouldbefarmoreadvancedthanitisnow.Buttheir
timeiscome;andIferventlyhopethatthebellthattolledthismorninginhonourofthis
conventionmaybethedeath-knellofallfanaticism,ofallpersecutionswiththeswordorwith
thepen,andofalluncharitablefeelingsbetweenpersonswendingtheirwaytothesamegoal.
Swami ji at Parliament of Religions

74. In the West till 1896
Greenacre, Maine, USA 1894

75. Return to India -1897 to 1899

76. Back in West -1899 to 1900

77. 1901, 02 -Work in India

78. 1863January 12 –Birth in Kolkata
1879Enters Presidency College
1880Transfers to General Assembly Institution
1881November –First meeting with Sri Ramakrishna
1882 To 1886–Association with Sri Ramakrishna
1884 -Passes B. A. Examination, Father passes away
1885Sri Ramakrishna’s last illness
1886 August 16 –Sri Ramakrishna passes away
1886, Fall –Establishes Baranagar Math
1886, December 24 –Informal vow of sannyasa at Antpur
1887January –Formal vows of sannyasa at Baranagar Monastery
1890 To 1893–Travels all over India as itinerant monk
1892December 24 –At Kanyakumari, South India
1893
February 13 –First public lecture, Secunderabad, South India
May 31 –Sails for America from Mumbai
July 25 –Lands at Vancouver, Canada
July 30 –Arrives in Chicago
August –Meets Professor John Ft. Wright of Harvard University
September 11 –First address at Parliament of Religions, Chicago
September 27 –Final address at Parliament of Religions
November 20 –Begins western lecture tour
1894
April 14 –Begins lectures and classes on East Coast
May 16 –Speaks at Harvard University
July To August –At Green Acre Religious Conference
November –Founds Vedanta Society of New York
1895
January –Begins classes in New York
June 4 To 18 –At Camp Percy, New Hampshire
June To August –At Thousand Island Park on St. Lawrence river, N.Y.
August To September –In Paris
October To November –Lectures in London
December 6 –Sails for New York
1896
March 22 To 25 –Speaks at Harvard University, offered Eastern
Philosophy chair
April 15 –Returns to London
May To July –Gives classes in London
May 28 –Meets Max Muller in Oxford
August To September –In the Europe for six weeks
October To November –Gives classes in London
December 30 –Leaves Naples for India
1897
January 15 –Arrives in Colombo, Sri Lanka
February 6 To 15 –In Chennai
February 19 –Arrives in Kolkata
May 1 –Establishes Ramakrishna Mission Association, Kolkata
May To December –Tours northwest India
1898
January –Returns to Kolkata
May –Begins North India pilgrimage with Western devotees
August 2 –At Amarnath, Kashmir
December 9 –Consecrates Belur Math
Summary

79. Summary
1899
March 19 –Establishes Advaita Ashrama at Mayavati
June 20 –Leaves India for second visit to the West
July 31 –Arrives in London
August 28 -Arrives in New York City
August To November –At Ridgely Manor, New York
December 3 –Arrives in Los Angeles
1900
February 22 –Arrives in San Francisco
April 14 –Founds Vedanta Society in San Francisco
June –Final classes in New York City
July 26 –Leaves for Europe
August 3 –Arrives in Paris for International Exposition
September 7 –Speaks at Congress of History of Religions at Exposition
October 24 –Begins tour of Vienna, Constantinople, Greece and Cairo
November 26 –Leaves for India
December 9 –Arrives at Belur Math
1901
January –Visits Mayawati
March To May –Pilgrimage in East Bengal and Assam
1902
January To February –Visits Bodh Gaya and Varanasi
March –Returns to Belur Math
July 4 -Mahasamadhi

80. Wake up the note! the song that had its birth
Far off, where worldly taint could never
reach,
In mountain caves and glades of forest deep,
Whose calm no sigh for lust or wealth or fame
Could ever dare to break; where rolled the
stream
Of knowledge, truth, and bliss that follows
both.
Sing high that note, Sannyâsin bold! Say—
“Om Tat Sat, Om!”
Strike off thy fetters! Bonds that bind thee
down,
Of shining gold, or darker, baser ore ;
Love, hate—good, bad—and all the dual
throng,
Knowthe , slave is slave, caressed or
whipped, not free ;
For fetters, though of gold, are not less
strong to bind ;
Then off with them, Sannyâsin bold! Say—
“Om Tat Sat, Om!”
The Song of Sannyasin

81. Let darkness go; the will-o’-the-wisp that
leads
With blinking light to pile more gloom on
gloom.
This thirst for life foreverer quench ; it
drags
From birth to death, and death to birth,
the soul.
He conquers all who conquerrs self.
Know this
And never yield, Sannyâsin bold! Say—
“Om Tat Sat, Om!”
Who sows must reap,” they say, “and cause
must bring
The sure effect ; good, good ; bad, bad ; and
none
Escape the law. But whoso wears a form
Must wear the chain.” Too true ; but far
beyond
Both name and form is Âtman, ever free.
Know thou art That, Sannyâsin bold! Say—
“Om Tat Sat, Om!”
The Song of Sannyasin

82. They know not truth who dream such
vacant dreams
As father, mother, children, wife, and
friend.
The sexless Self! whose father He? whose
child?
Whose friend, whose foe is He who is but
One?
The Self is all in all, none else exists ;
And thou art That, Sannyâsin bold! Say—
“Om Tat Sat, Om!”
There is but One—The Free—The Knower—
Self!
Without a name, without a form or stain.
In Him is Mâyâ dreaming all this dream.
The witness, He appears as nature, soul.
Know thou art That, Sannyâsin bold! Say—
“Om Tat Sat, Om!”
The Song of Sannyasin

83. Where seekest thou? That freedom,
friend, this world
Nor that can give. In books and temples
vain
Thy search. Thine only is the hand that
holds
The rope that drags thee on. Then cease
lament,
Let go thy hold, Sannyâsin bold! Say —
“Om Tat Sat, Om!”
Say, “Peace to all: From me no danger be
To aught that lives. In those that dwell on
high,
In those that lowly creep, I am the Self in all!
All life both here and there, do I renounce,
All heavens and earths and hells, all hopes
and fears.”
Thus cut thy bonds, Sannyâsin bold! Say—
“Om Tat Sat, Om!”
The Song of Sannyasin

84. Heed then no more how body lives or
goes,
Its task is done. Let Karma float it down ;
Let one put garlands on, another kick
This frame ; say naught. No praise or
blame can be
Where praiser praised, and blamer
blamed are one.
Thus be thou calm, Sannyâsin bold!
Say—
“Om Tat Sat, Om!”
Truth never comes where lust and fame and
greed
Of gain reside. No man who thinks of woman
As his wife can ever perfect be ;
Nor he who owns the least of things, nor he
Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro’
Maya’s gates.
So, give these up, Sannyâsin bold! Say—
“Om Tat Sat, Om!”
The Song of Sannyasin

85. Have thou no home. What home can hold
thee, friend?
The sky thy roof, the grass thy bed; and
food
What chance may bring, well cooked or
ill, judge not.
No food or drink can taint that noble Self
Which knows Itself. Like rolling river free
Thou ever be, Sannyâsin bold! Say—
“Om Tat Sat, Om!”
Few only know the truth. The rest will hate
And laugh at thee, great one ; but pay no
heed.
Go thou, the free, from place to place, and
help
Them out of darkness, Maya’s veil. Without
The fear of pain or search for pleasure, go
Beyond them both, Sannyâsin bold! Say—
“Om Tat Sat, Om!”
The Song of Sannyasin

86. The Song of Sannyasin
Thus, day by day, till Karma’s powers
spent
Release the soul for ever. No more is
birth,
Nor I, nor thou, nor God, nor man. The
“I”
Has All become, the All is “I” and Bliss.
Know thou art That, Sannyâsin bold! Say
—
“Om Tat Sat, Om!”

87. Strange Vision
He saw an old man standing on the banks of the Indus and chanting Vedic hymns, in a distinctly different
way from the accustomed methods of intonation today
“Oh, come Thou Effulgent One, Thou Bestower of Blessings, Signifier of Brahman in three letters!
Salutation be to Thee, O Gayatri, Mother of Vedic Mantras, Thou who hast sprung from Brahman!
Swami believed through this vision he recovered the musical cadences of the earliest Aryan. He found
some remarkable similarity to this in the poetry of Shankaracharya. This shows the extraordinary
development of Yoga powers in the Swami.

88. Story at Tari Ghat Station
Duringwanderingmonkdays,Swamijididnotcarryanything.Oncea3rdclassticketwasgivenbysomeonefortravel.
SwamijididnothaveevenaKamandaluthistime.Hesatagainstapostofthewaitingshedof3rdclasspassengers.
Amiddleagedmanfromtradingcommunitysatoncottonmatundertheshelteroftheshed,almostoppositetotheSwami.
Recognizinghisstarvingconditionandhimbeingthirstyashewasnotabletoobtainwaterfromwaterbearersashehadno
money.ThepersonboughtwaterandsatisfiedhisownthirstandtauntedSwamiji-Seewhatnicewaterthisis.Sinceyou
haverenouncedmoneyyoucanpurchaseit.WhydontyouearnmoneyasIdo,andhaveagoodtimeofit?Hethenatehis
goodfoodwithderisivesmile.Swamijilookedcalmlybutnotamuscleonhisfacemoved.
Thereappearedalocalinhabitantcarryajugofwaterandfoodalongwithamat.Hecalled-DocomeBabajiandcome
takethefoodIhavebroughtforyou.Swamijiwassurprised.Thepersonsinsistedyoumusteatthefood.“Perhapsyouare
takingmeforsomebodyelse.Idonotrememberhavingmetyou”saidSwamiji.“No,no,youaretheveryBabajiIhave
seen!“saidtheman,andonenquiringfurther,shared“Iamasweetmeatvendorandwashavingnapaftermynoonmeal
andIsawadream.SriRamjiwaspointingouttoyouandtellingmethatHewaspainedtoseeyouwithoutfoodfrom
previousdayandIshouldgetupinstantlyandmakesomePurisandcurryandbringthemtorailwaystationwith
sweetmeats,coldwaterandamat.Iwokeup,andthinkingitwasadreamsleptagain,andSriRamjicameagainand
pushed me to getup and do as He said.”
WithallhisheardtheSwamithankedhissimplehost,whiletearsofloveflowedfromhiseyes.Thekindmanprotested“
No, no Babaji!Do not thank me! Itis allthe willof Sri Ramji!”
ThetraderwastakenabackandaskedforSwamiji’spardonforthehurtfulwordshehadusedtowardshim,hetookthe
dustofhisfeet.

89. Rockefeller Foundation Story (in Chicago, April, 1896)
InChicago,SwamijitoldJohnD.Rockefellermuchofhispastthatwasnotknowntoanyonebut
Rockfellerhimselfandmadehimunderstandthatthemoneyhehadalreadyaccumulatedwas
nothis,thathewasonlyachannelandhistruedutywastodogoodtotheworld,Godhadgiven
himallhiswealthinorderthathemighthaveanopportunitytohelpanddogoodtothepeople.
Rockefellerwasannoyedthatanyonedaredtotalktohimthatwayandtellhimwhattodo.He
lefttheroominirritation,notevensayinggood-bye.Butaboutaweekafter,againwithoutbeing
announced,heenteredSwamiji’sstudyandthrewonhisdeskapaperwhichtoldofhisplansto
donateanenormoussumofmoneytowardthefinancingofapublicinstitution.
“Wellthereyouare”,hesaid.“Youmustbesatisfiednowandyoucanthankmeforit.”
Swamijididn’tevenlifthiseyesanddidnotmove.
Thentakingthepaper,hequietlyreadit,saying,“Itisforyoutothankme.”Thatwasall.Restis
history.
ThiswasRockefeller’sfirsteverlargestdonationtothepublicwelfare.

90. Thank You!