SWAMI VIVEKANANDA- MULTI-FACETS OF HIS DIVINITY.pptx

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Swami Turiyananda, a brother disciple of Swami Vivekananda said: "After Krishna's death Uddhava lamented to Vidura that although Krishna was born, lived, worked and played among the members of Yadava dynasty, none could understand who he really was. Similarly, Swamiji (Swami Vivekananda) lived, and worked and made fun with his brother disciples for years, yet none could understand even the least what a great spiritual giant he was!" . How true it is ?. This Video reveals his multi-faceted Divine Personality.

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SWAMI VIVEKANANANDA- Facets of His Divinity

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WHO IS SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ?

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“SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S MOTHER BHUVANESWARI PRAYED TO KASI VIRESWAR SHIVA FOR A SON. ONE DAY SHE HAD A DREAM AND SAW LORD SHIVA AROSE HIMSELF OUT OF HIS TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TOOK THE FORM OF A MALE CHILD WHO WAS TO BE HER OWN CHILD.”

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SRI RAMAKRISHNA’S ROOM AT DAKSHINESHWAR

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one of Naren's early visits to Dakshineswar, Sri Ramakrishna said to him: “ Look! In you is Shiva ! In me is Shakti! And these two are One.”

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Nag Mahasaya : ‘Swamiji and Sri Ramakrishna Are obverse and reverse of the same coin’

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SRI SARADA DEVI: “Where Naren’s [ SWAMIJI’S ] worship is not performed, there Sri Thakur (SRI RAMAKRISHNA ) will not accept worship”.

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ONE NIGHT SWAMI SHIVANANDA, A BROTHER- DISCIPLE OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA SLEPT WITH HIM AT BARANAGORE MATH. AT MIDNIGHT HE SAW A NUMBER OF LITTLE SHIVAS LYING ASLEEP IN HIS PLACE . HE THEN REALISED THAT SWAMI VIVEKANANDA WAS LORD SHIVA HIMSELF.

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HOLY MT. KAILASH SWAMI Brahmananda , A BROTHER-DISCIPLE OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ONCE SERVED HIM FOR A LONG TIME WHICH SURPRISED THE FORMER’S DISCIPLE. THEN HE TOLD HIM: “Don’t you know he is Shiva Himself?” SWAMI BRAHMANANDA

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After Swamiji’s Return From THE West Nag Mahashaya , A devotee of SrI RAMAKRISHNA, came to see and pay his respects to Swamiji AT BELUR MATH. After saluting each other Nag Mahashaya exclaimed, “Jay Shankara! Blessed am I to see before me the living Shiva!” BELUR MATH (OLD)

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ONCE SAID at Belur Math: “Since visiting Amarnath I feel as if Shiva is sitting on my head for twenty four hours and would not come down .”

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SISter NIVEDITA : ‘swamiji says-“ I am Kali’s child in some special sense”; and I never try to tell him what I hold be the truth -what I see now AS daylight – “ Not child at all– but sHiva– Consort and Spouse!”’

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“JUST AFTER THE MAHASAMADHI OF SWAMIJI ,SISTER NIVEDITA FOUND THE SOUL FACE TO FACE WITH INFINITE RADIANCE, AND FELL PROSTRATE BEFORE IT, CRYING OUT “ SHIVA GURU”

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SRI SARADA DEVI NARRATES HER VISION: “ The Master (SRI RAMAKRISHNA) stood at the foot of yonder peepUl tree. I saw at last the Master disappearing in the BODY of Naren (SWAMI VIVEKANANDA)."

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A Few days before the MAHASAMADHI of Swami vivekananda , Swami Brahmananda saw THAT Sri Ramakrishna starTed living in ThE body OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA.

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Swamiji once went to Buddha Gaya with SWAMI SHIVANANDA to do tapasya. He had many revelations about Buddha and also saw Buddha entering into the body of Swami Shivananda. Later at Belur Math he told HIM that he himself was Buddha and the latter was Ananda. MAHABODHI TEMPLE, GAYA

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Miss MacLeod: “It seems as if all my life started from that event (of meeting Swamiji ) As if I’d fulfilled the mission I was born for, THE recognition of the new Buddha .”

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA: “IF I MEDITATE ON THE BRAIN OF SHANKARA I BECOME SHANKARA OR ON THE BRAIN OF BUDDHA I BECOME BUDDHA.”

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In one of HER Letters JOSPHINE MacLeod, A Disciple and A Friend OF Swami VIVEKANANDA WROTE: “You know , Swamiji Said, ‘he was SRI Shankara !’ HE came 800 years back.” SRI SANKARA TEMPLE, KALADI

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after Swamiji’s MAHASAMADHI Dr.Logen [USa] wrote about Swamiji: “To me he is the “ The Christ” than whom a great one has never come, his great and liberal soul outshines all other things, his mighty spirit was as free AND liberal as the great sun or the air of heaven .”

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Lillia Montgomery about SWAMI VIVEKANANDA: “ Power seemed to emanate from him. I was fascinated, HE looked like a living Buddha , and he looked entirely different from any personality I have ever seen…. He was the only person I have ever seen in whom there seemed to be no limit to his personality…. It was just as if his outer form were mere floating on a great light .”

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Ella Wheeler WILCOX ( poet AND journalist OF USA ): “ I was listening to Vivekananda this morning an hour. How honoured by fate you must feel to have been allowed to be of service to this Great Soul. I believe him to be the reincarnation of some great Spirit- perhaps Buddha, perhaps Christ .”

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA: “I am India’s Prophet.” 00 IN 1906 AT RAMAKRISHNA ASHRAMA BANGALORE, Swami Abhedananda SAID ABOUT SWAMI VIVEKANANDA: "He was like A Prophet, a patriot and a saint.” SWAMI VIVEKANANDA MANDAP AT RAMAKRISHNA MATH, BANGALORE

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA wrote IN A LETTER: “ I have been gained beyond expectations –the Prophet has been honoured and with a vengeance .”

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ADDRESSING NARENDRA SRI RAMAKRISHNA SAID : “I KNOW my Lord, you are that ancient RIsHi Nara, a Part of Narayana, who has incarnated This time to remove the miseries and sufferings of humanity.” NARA AND NARAYAYA, THE TWIN-INCARNATION OF LORD VISHNU LORD VISHNU

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Sri Ramakrishna once Had a Wonderful vision Of transcendental realm In which Seven rishis Were meditating. A Divine Child [sri ramakrishna Himself ] in luminous form appeared and told A Rishi “ I am going down. You WILL HAVE TO Come with me.” The Rishi was none other Than Narendra who Later became SWAMI VIVEKANAnDA

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Swami Turiyananda ONCE said , “He [Swamiji] USED to tell us, ‘ Do you think I only lecture? I KNOW I give tangibly, living spirituality to them, AND they know they receive it .”

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Swami Abhedananda : “ While listening to the lecture (of swamiJI) I felt as if some force was drawing the Kundalini up as at the time of meditation .”

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One day Swami Vijnanananda [GURUBAI] noticed some light coming from Swamiji’s bedroom at Belur Math. First he thought it was the light of the lamp burning in the room . But later when he peeped through the door he found out that the light was emanating from Swamiji’s body .

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“I am A voice without A form.”

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Sri Aurabindo HAD A STRANGE EXPERIENCE IN JAIL CELL. IT HAPPENED After the MAHASAMADHI of Swamiji . HE later wrote ABOUT IT: “It is a fact that I was hearing constantly the voice of Vivekananda speaking to me for a forth night in the jail in my solitary meditation and felt his presence. The voice spoke on a very important field of spiritual experience.”

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In New York Swamiji Told Swami Abhedananda : “ I feel that I am growing very big. MY self is expanding so MUCH THAT at times I FEEL as if this BODY could not contain ME ANY MORE. I am about to burst.”

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Sister Christine, a foreign disciple of swami vivekananda: “ He [Swamiji ] lives. One actually feels his presence. It is a blessed experience.” Sister christine

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Sri Ramakrishna: “Naren is always cutting to pieces the veils of Maya by the sword of knowledge. The inscrutable Maya can never bring him under Her control .” SWAMI VIVEKANANDA: “I am within Maya . Only difference is that I am playing with Maya. The moment I wish I will leave the play with Maya and depart.”

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Once a Mohammadan met Swamiji in Nainital. After his acquaintance with Swamiji he Said: “ Swamiji, afterwards if any one claims you as an Avatar , remember that I , a Mohammadan am the first!”

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MISS JOSEPHINE MACLOED : “ One day we two sisters went to listen TO Swamiji’s lecture. The subject of the talk was the Gita. When Swamiji started speaking …I lifted my eyes and saw with these very eyes Krishna himself standing there and preaching the Gita… I stared and stared…I saw only the figure and all else vanished .”

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Mrs. EDITH. B. AllEn , who served SWAMI VIVEKANANDA as personal secretary IN USA related in her memoirs: “ He (Swamiji) gave one wonderful lecture “The Ultimate Destiny of man” and FINISHED by placing HIS HAND on his chest and saying ‘ I AM GOD.’” MRS. EDITH. B. ALLEN “I AM GOD”

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MRS. Blodgett [Los Angeles, USA], SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S ADMIRER TOLD Miss Josephine MacLeod ABOUT HIM: “ If ever there was a God on earth , that is the man .”

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BAIDYANATH SHIVA TEMPLE swami Vivekananda: “The other day I was a guest of Priyanath Mukherjee at Baidyanath. There I had such a spell of Asthma that I felt like dying. But from within, With every Breath arose the deep forced sound, ‘ I am He, I am He!”

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA GAVE MONASTIC NAMES TO HIS BOTHER-DISCIPLES BASED ON THEIR DIVINE NATURE AND HE HIMSELF ONCE TOOK A NAME ‘SACHCHIDANANDA’ WHICH REFLECTS HIS SELF-REALISATION AND DIVINE NATURE. SRI RAMAKRISHNA SAID ABOUT SWAMI VIVEKANANDA) : “I CONSIDER NARENDRA AS THE VERY EMBODIMENT OF ATMAN.” SWAMI BRAHMANANDA SWAMI SHIVANANDA SWAMI AKHANDANANDA SWAMI ABHEDANANDA SWAMI SARADANANDA SWAMI VIJNANANANDA SRI RAMAKRISHNA SWAMI TURIYANANDA SWAMI PREMANANDA SWAMI RAMAKRISHNANANDA SWAMI ADVAITANANDA SWAMI SUBODHANANDA SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA SWAMI YOGANANDA SWAMI ADBHUTANANDA SWAMI NIRANJANANANDA

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Swami Turiyananda said : “After Krishna’s death Uddhava lamented to Vidura that although Krishna was born, lived, worked and played among the members of Yadava dynasty, none could understand who he really was. Similarly, Swamiji lived, and worked and made fun with his brother disciples for years, yet none could understand even the least what a great spiritual giant he was !”

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA: “If there were another Vivekananda HE would have understood what this Vivekananda has DONE.” SRI RAMAKRISHNA HIMSELF Said about SWAMIJI: “NOBODY CAN UNDERSTAND NAREN.”

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MAY SWAMI VIVEKANANDA BLESS US