Brief Introduction Child hood Encounters With Swami Ramakrishna Ramakrishna Order of Monks Amercian Visit Parliament of Religions Speech Spritual and phillosophical activities His Legacy

1. Leadership Presentation
Story of Swami Vivekanda
Dhanabal
Maithreye
Arindam
Faridh Khan
Shalini
RR Mohan Kumar

2. Agenda
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Brief Introduction
Child hood
Encounters With Swami Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna Order of Monks
Amercian Visit
Parliament of Religions Speech
Spritual and philosophical activities
His Legacy

3. Preface
• Known in East And West-Inspiring Personality
• International Fame: ”Parliament of Religions”
speech
• Preached Rational and Humanistic teachings
• Awakened american consciousness to
Vedantisitic teachings
• Service to humanity and man making religion

4. Formative years
• Early years known as Vireswara
• Wealthy Family
• Very Restless
- Injury Ramakrishna prophecies
• Fancy for wondering monks
• Precocious child
• Undisputed Leader
• Masked to be a leader of men

6. Incidents
• Looking in the mirror
Rude behaviour
• Never show surprise at anything
Prices and Beggars
• Truth without worry about the result
Mother influence
• Tree With Ghosts
Fearless

7. Sri Ramakrishna
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Encounters with Swami
Refusal to marry: Bramacharin
Brahmo Samaj-Encounters
Seeking God
Rationalistic Mindset
Divine miracles-Wisdom

8. Student-Teacher
• “When the teacher is ready the master will appear”
• Master-Student love relationship
Training:
• No rigorous training
• Oness of Existence
• Divinty of soul
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Permeation of Whole universe:Touch

9. Student:Master test
• Indifference to gold and coins Swami ramakrishna
• Ignoring Naren
• Inborn Spiritual tendencies
-Thinking highly
-Acting Nobly
-Broadmindeness
-Seeking Truth
-Sceptical Attitude

10. Bad times
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Passing way of father
Poverty
Master love for student
Skipping meals for family
Search for job
Aspersions on his character to Swami

11. Passing away of Swami
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Cancer Struck
Transfer of Spiritual Powers
Revealing Naren‟s mission- Enlightening Humanity
Guiding spirit after Swami
Separation of Body and soul:Near Death Experience

13. Wondering monk
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Food & Shelter
Training Disciples
Wanted to be free of responsibilities
Travelled all over India
“Monkey Chase”
-Facing Life
• Smoking with an untouchable

14. Mission
• Vedantic brain + Moslem Body
• Pavhari Baba
-Bite from Cobra
-Dog taking his food
• Maharaja-Overcoming his arrogance
• 'Live in the house of your teacher like a cow,„
• 'Regard spiritual discipline in the same way as you
regard the goal
• Travel throughout India

15. Trip to America
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Parliament of religions –Invitation
Unknown Hostess->Future Disciples
Instant Popularity
Sowing the seeds of Vedanata
Admiration for American women

17. Parliament of religions
speech

19. Swami Vivekananda‟s Speech at
Chicago
• The invitation of the conference was actually given to
Bhaskara Sethupathi, Raja of Ramnad to attend the
World Parliament of Religions at Chicago.
• But he decided and encouraged Swami Vivekananda,
and said he was the right person to represent Hinduism

20. Swami Vivekananda‟s Speech
• The Parliament of the World's Religions opened on 11
September 1893. Vivekananda gave a brief speech
representing India and Hinduism.
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He began his speech with "Sisters and brothers of
America!". Vivekananda received a two-minute standing
ovation from the crowd of seven thousand

21. Incidents
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Firing by boys
Proposal for marriage
Mad Bull chase
Rousing reception in India
Establishment of Ramakrishna Mission

22. Inpiration for youth
• Develop your muscles and brain
• Eat good food and have healthy exercise
• “You will be nearer to Heaven
through football than through the study of the Gita”
• Cultivate manliness
• Faculty of reasoning

23. End
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Strict practices for disciples
Awakening of India through religion
Choose his time, date and place of death
Choose his cremation place

24. Prophecies
• 1897, He said : “India will be free in another fifty years
and freedom will come in an unusual way. A great war
will flare up within twenty years, and if the Western
nations do not give up their stark materialism, another
world war is inevitable.”
• “India, when independent, will embrace the materialism
of the West and attain material prosperity to such an
extent that it will surpass its past records in that field”

25. Prophecies
• “Countries such as America would become increasingly
spiritual because they will have realized from the height
of material prosperity the simple truth that gross
materialism cannot give eternal peace.”
• "No religion in the world can destroy hinduism. Soon
there is going to be a great spiritual light that will spread
throughout the world. That spiritual light will be from
Chennai".

26. Prophecies
• "Advaita philosophy of our Vedanta would be the religion
of all thinking humanity in near future".
• PREDICTION ON CHINESE INVASION.....( World War 3