Talk on Vivekananda.

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Saturday, February 24, 2001 10:36

Lecture on Swami Vivekananda [1863 -1902]

 

Namaste Members and Friends,

 

This Tuesday there will be a lecture on the following:

 

27th February 2001

Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Lecturer: Dilip Lakhani

Topic: Swami Vivekananda

Location: Pearson building, Room 305a-b

 

Here is a little taster of who Swami Vivekananda [1863 -1902] was:

 

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA'S inspiring personality was well known both in India and

in America during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first

decade of the twentieth. The unknown monk of India suddenly leapt into fame

at the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893, at which he

represented Hinduism. His vast knowledge of Eastern and Western culture as

well as his deep spiritual insight, fervid eloquence, brilliant

conversation, broad human sympathy, colourful personality, and handsome

figure made an irresistible appeal to the many types of Americans who came

in contact with him. People who saw or heard Vivekananda even once still

cherish his memory after a lapse of more than half a century.

 

In America Vivekananda's mission was the interpretation of India's

spiritual culture, especially in its Vedantic setting. He also tried to

enrich the religious consciousness of the Americans through the rational

and humanistic teachings of the Vedanta philosophy. In America he became

India's spiritual ambassador and pleaded eloquently for better

understanding between India and the New World in order to create a healthy

synthesis of East and West, of religion and science.

 

We hope this has given you encouragement to find out more about Swami

Vivekananda at our lecture on Tuesday.

 

UCLU HINDU SOCIETY