"...he did not want to be worshipped slavishly or remembered for all eternity. He just wanted people to discover the prophet, Buddha or Christ inside themselves" In the West he is certainly and never was not forgotten.
He encountered two types of Americans that are familiar to us all today: Christian supremacists who denounced him as a dangerous heathen preaching false religion; and open-minded, rational, spiritual seekers, who found his message and his demeanor irresistible. [http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65347000/jpg/_65347800_swami_gett\ y.jpg] The Dalai Lama and Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, an Indian scientist and administrator who served as the 11th President of India-he was affectionately known as the People's President-, attended VivekAnanda's 150th anniversary celebrations Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Inspirational Speech about Vivekananda http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z91bZzgXOmM <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z91bZzgXOmM> Swami VivekAnanda's famous speech at Chicago on September 11, 1893 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVezAfZPTdk <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVezAfZPTdk> Documentary on Swami VivekAnandhttp://www.hssus.org/sv150/ <http://www.hssus.org/sv150/> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZgeb0OZPrY <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZgeb0OZPrY> Movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA0hRF5imzU <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA0hRF5imzU> To know more about 150'th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda in USA, please visit http://www.hssus.org/sv150/ <http://www.hssus.org/sv150/> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > 150th Celebration of Vivekananda > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21045281 >
