Word: vivekananda
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...other faiths.”Zearott herself answered one such obscure question, when the moderator asked for “the name of the first Hindu sage to come to America in 1893 for the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.” Zearott correctly answered Swami Vivekananda, a fact that she said she learned in a course at Harvard. She attributes much of her knowledge of religions to Harvard classes.“I’ve always been interested in different religions and how people understand the perspectives of others,” says Zearott, who concentrates...
...zero-experience remains a stinker after the experience." By way of illustration, Bharati describes a mystic named Trailinga who threw stones at approaching visitors. The author also quotes an all too revealing conversation between Ramakrishna, the most celebrated mystic of this century, and a swami called Vivekananda...
Hindu philosophy has long attracted Western minds. The poetic thought of the Upanishads helped nurture the 19th century American transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson. But it was only in 1893, when a charismatic young man named Swami Vivekananda came to the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, that Hinduism first put down roots in the West. The message the swami brought was Vedanta Hinduism, a classical Hindu school revived and refined by the 19th century Hindu mystic, Ramakrishna...
Under the impact of rationalism and religious competition, reform began. Its first leaders were Ramakrishna (1836-86) and his disciple, Vivekananda (1863-1902). Mystical Ramakrishna, who said he reached union with God through Islam and Christianity as well as Hinduism, presented Vedanta as a religion of direct experience rather than mere traditional observance. Vivekananda injected a new sense of social responsibility by stressing Hinduism's teaching that God is in every man. Mahatma Gandhi (whom Agnostic Nehru once called "terribly Hindu") showed India how practical and effective religion could be even in the field of politics. Nehru carried...
...first really readable, authoritative English translation of one of the world's oldest and greatest religious classics was published last fortnight. It is The Bhagavad Gitā (The Song of the Lord), often called the Hindu New Testament, translated by Swami Nikhilananda (Rama-krishna-Vivekananda Center, New York; $3). Also published, without the profuse notes and comments of the larger volume, was a $2 pocket-size edition of the Gltā's text ("for daily devotional study . . . very convenient when traveling...