Thank you! - Swami Vivekananda - pictures and about his name choosing

[Guest guest]

Thank you everyone for the tremendous help!

Last silly question! We were looking at the pictures of Swami

Vivekananda and were wondering if the costumes he wore were

made to impress the Westerners, or were actually worn by

Indians of his time?

Thank you.

Namaste

Avanija Surendran

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

p.390, Vol. 1, The Life of Sw. Vivekananda, by his Eastern and

Western Disciples, gives some background on this:

 

" ....So when his [Alasinga Perumal] guru, accompanied by Jagmohanlal,

reached Bombay from Khetri, Alasinga was at the station to meet them.

Jagmohan,....had been instructed by the Raja of Khetri to make all

necessary arrangements. He now took the Swami to the best shops in

the city and bought all manner of things for him. When the Swami

found costly silk materials and suitings being ordered for the robes

and turbans that he would wear when lecturing in the West, he

protested. A simple ochre robe would do, he said: but Jagmohan would

hear nothingof the kind. The Swami found himself helpless in face of

the well-meaning and devoted intentions of his disciples, and could

only submit. The result was that he was fitted out in royal style,

and presented with a handsome purse. A first-class ticket had been

bought for him on the Japan-bound p. & .O steamer Peninsular, Jagmohan

maintaining that the guru of a Raja should travel like a Raja..... "

 

(Jagmohanlal was Private Secretary to Raja Ajit Singh of Khetri).

 

Regards,

 

Sunder

 

 

 

 

Ramakrishna, " Rajah " <rajah@x> wrote:

> Thank you everyone for the tremendous help!

> Last silly question! We were looking at the pictures of Swami

> Vivekananda and were wondering if the costumes he wore were

> made to impress the Westerners, or were actually worn by

> Indians of his time?

> Thank you.

> Namaste

> Avanija Surendran

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

 

Two more extra-ordinary memorabilia of Swamiji:

 

 

http://kaustubh88.tripod.com/vivekananda/id9.html

 

http://www.vivekananda.org/newSVLetters.asp

 

 

Regards,

 

Sunder

 

 

 

Ramakrishna, " Rajah " <rajah@x> wrote:

We were looking at the pictures of Swami

> Vivekananda