In Swami Vivekananda's own words, he was " condensed India ".

In 1888, Vivekananda's first destination was the city of Varanasi, where he met the learned Bengali writer, Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the saint Trailanga Swami.

Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, a branch of the Ramakrishna Math, founded on 19 March 1899, later published many of Swami Vivekananda's work, now publishes Prabuddha Bharata journal

The Union Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, approved in principle the " Swami Vivekananda Values Education Project " at the cost of with the objectives such as involving the youth through competitions, essays, discussions and study circles and publishing Swami Vivekananda's complete work in different languages.

Swami Vivekananda's Birthday, according to Indian Almanac ( Vishuddha Siddhanta Almanac ) is on Pausha Krishna Saptami tithi, which falls on different dates of English Calendar every year.

Swami Vivekananda's lectures and writings, deriving their inspiration from the Indian spiritual tradition and the broad outlook of his Master Sri Ramakrishna, are a source of inspiration and have motivated numerous youth organizations, study circles, and service projects involving youth.

Other Hindu theophanies include Swami Vivekananda's experience of cosmic consciousness and a merging with the Nirguna Brahman when touched by the Hindu master Ramakrishna Paramahansa.

On Swami Vivekananda's guru, Ramakrishna, Rabindranath Tagore wrote a poem: " To the Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Ramakrishna Deva ".

The service activities are based on the message of " Jiva is Shiva " from Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda's message of " Daridra Narayana " to indicate that service to poor is service to God.

He was initiated as a Sannyasi ( monk ) in 1933, on the anniversary of Swami Vivekananda's birth by Swami Shivananda, a direct disciple of Ramakrishna.

About this time he also translated Swami Vivekananda's Chicago lectures in local Hindi.

After Swami Vivekananda's return from West when Ramakrishna Mission was formed as an Association on 1 May 1897, at Baghbazar in Calcutta ( now Kolkata ) Swami Vivekananda was elected its General President and Swami Brahmananda was elected the first and only ever Calcutta President.

The plan got shelved after Swami Vivekananda's death in 1902 owing to the paucity of funds.

Thirty years after Swami Vivekananda's death, the temple plan was revived when an unexpected financial help was received from some devoted American students.

He is renowned in literary and cultural circles as the translator of most of Swami Vivekananda's works into Bengali, and as the best exponent of his thoughts and ideals.

His translations have played a major role in spreading Swami Vivekananda's ideas in Bengal.

A few weeks later, two of Swami Vivekananda's women disciples in America, Sara C. Bull, wife of famous Norwegian violinist and composer Ole Bull and Josphine MacLeod arrived in India.

It was started in 2010 as part of the annual National Youth Conference, on Swami Vivekananda's birth anniversary.

Pattabhirama Iyer was a prominent judge who had served as the chairman of the committee which sponsored Swami Vivekananda's voyage to the United States of America.

Many of the country's political leaders of the 19th and 20th century, including Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, were influenced by the teachings of Swami Vivekananda.

Great leaders of the Vaishnava Bhakti movement in Karnataka like Purandara Dasa, Kanaka Dasa, Raghavendra Swami and many others were influenced by Dvaita traditions.

" Sheela initiated attempts to murder Osho's caretaker and girlfriend, Ma Yoga Vivek, and his personal physician, Swami Devaraj ( Dr. George Meredith ), because she felt they were a threat to Osho ; she had secretly recorded a conversation between Devaraj and Osho " in which the doctor agreed to obtain drugs the guru wanted to ensure a peaceful death if he decided to take his own life.

His doctors and former attorney, Philip J. Toelkes ( Swami Prem Niren ), hypothesised radiation and thallium in a deliberately irradiated mattress, since his symptoms were concentrated on the right side of his body, but presented no hard evidence.

Some of them were Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Ramana Maharshi and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

His religious school of thought led to the formation of the Ramakrishna Mission by his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda – both were influential figures in the Bengali Renaissance as well as the Hindu renaissance during the 19th and 20th centuries.

These views were disputed by Swami Atmajnanananda, who wrote that Jivanavrttanta had been reprinted nine times in Bengali as of 1995.

The Swami Dayanand Institute of Management ( SDIM ) runs diploma level Programmes in Information Technology, Administration and Accounting ; such diploma Programmes were formerly provided by the UoM.

Shivaji's descendants, who remained as the titular Raja of Satara, were called Swami ( Marathi for the ' real owner ') by the Peshwas who reported to them, and they were to seek guidance from the Raja.

However, since Sivananda spent only a few hours with Swami Vishwananda, the full Viraja Homa ceremonies were performed later by Swami Vishnudevananda, the Mandaleswara of Sri Kailas Ashram.

Through his time in Delhi, teaching at the Vishwayatan Yoga Ashram of Swami Dhirendra Acharya, he had come to know the ruling Nehru family who were patrons and students of the swami.

Advanced Thought magazine also carried articles by Swami Bhakta Vishita, but when it came time for Vishita's writings to be collected in book form, they were not published by the Yogi Publishing Society.

" The band's recordings and merchandise were conducted in a " Do it Yourself " manner, with Froberg providing all of the artwork and Reis releasing the material via his Swami Records label.

The Village of Navalpakkam near Vandavasi, has been a sacred vedic village where the Idol of Lord Hayagriva has been worshipped in a house where the descendants of Sri Annayarya MahaDesikan Swami were performing the daily rituals.

Swami Shivananda and Swami Subodhananda were the only direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna to be filmed.

After the foundation of Belur Math, one day as the brother-monks were chatting about holy life he happened to say this to Swami Vivekananda who immediately called him ‘ Mahapurush ’ which meant ‘ great soul ’, and since then he came to be known as ‘ Mahapurush Maharaj ’.

Many important temples like the temples of the Holy Mother and Swami Brahmananda were later built under his supervision.

Some first disciples of Prabhupada in GBC were also possessing titles " His Holiness " ( Jayapataka Swami, Satswarupa Goswami ).

Chakradhar Swami propagated a religious movement, as well as social movement, in which all members were accepted irrespective of their castes, and the traditional ritualistic religion was rejected.

By then Swami was well versed in yoga and spiritual matters and their meeting proved to be the start of a profound and cherished companionship, although the two were of different temperaments.

Stating that " Paramahansa Yogananda was sent to the West by Jesus Christ himself " with the said intent to " restore the original Christian teachings among his followers ", in Revelations of Christ Swami Kriyananda, Yogananda's disciple and Ex-minister of the Self-Realization Fellowship, provides a distilled commentary on the life and teachings of Christ, all of which is meant to serve as an anticipatory primer to Yogananda's more philosophically nuanced treatment in The Second Coming of Christ.

* April 10 – The Arya Samaj is founded in Mumbai by Swami Dayananda.

* June 1 – Sahajanand Swami, believed to be an incarnation of god by his followers, leaves his mortal body ( b. 1781 ).

Cited from Sri Vishnu Sahasranama, commentary by Sri Sankaracharya, translated by Swami Tapasyananda (( Ramakrishna Math Publications, Chennai ))

In July 1890, accompanied by the fellow monk Swami Akhandananda ( also a disciple of Ramakrishna ), Vivekananda visited the Himalayas.

Dr. Barrows, the president of the Parliament said, " India, the Mother of religions was represented by Swami Vivekananda, the Orange-monk who exercised the most wonderful influence over his auditors.

The same year, the famine relief work was started by Swami Akhandananda at Murshidabad district.

He was accompanied by Sister Nivedita and Swami Turiyananda.

Manuscript of " Blessings to Nivedita " a poem written by Swami Vivekananda in his own handwriting.

The device was designed by the Simputer Trust, a non-profit organization formed in November 1999 by seven Indian scientists and engineers led by Dr. Swami Manohar.

According to Swami Sivananda, the view that the Shiva lingam represents the phallus is a mistake ; The same sentiments have also been expressed by H. H. Wilson in 1840.

However, in 1922, Sir John George Woodroffe published a commentary on the Karpuradistotram by the Kaula commentator Swami Vimalananda.

* Krsna: The Supreme Personality of Godhead ( ISBN 0-89213-354-6 ) by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The temple was founded by Swami Satyamitranand Giri, on the banks of the Ganges in Haridwar.

One example of such group was the Hare Krishna movement ( ISKCON ) founded by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1966, many of whose followers voluntarily accepted the demandingly ascetic lifestyle of bhakti yoga on a full-time basis, in stark contrast to much of the popular culture of the time.

It was founded in 1965 in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

Since the 1960s, the mantra has been made well known outside of India by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( commonly known as " the Hare Krishnas ").

For writer Stephen Prothero, many perennialist thinkers ( including Armstrong, Huston Smith and Joseph Campbell ) are influenced by Hindu reformer Ram Mohan Roy and Hindu mystics Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda.

* The End of Philosophy by Swami Tripurari