{"id":17682,"date":"2014-09-15T08:43:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T06:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/?page_id=17682"},"modified":"2021-12-22T03:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T02:29:20","slug":"swami-vivekanand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/autori\/swami-vivekananda\/","title":{"rendered":"Swami Vivekananda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;15&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column]<blockquote class=' with_quote_icon' style=''><i class='fa fa-quote-right' style=''><\/i><h5 class='blockquote-text' style=''>Quali sono le idee di religione, di Dio e di ricerca dell'aldil\u00e0? Perch\u00e9 l'uomo cerca un Dio? Perch\u00e9 l'uomo, in ogni nazione, in ogni stato della societ\u00e0, cerca un ideale perfetto in qualche parte, nell'uomo, in Dio o altrove?<\/h5><\/blockquote>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;25&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perch\u00e9&#8217; quell&#8217;idea \u00e8 dentro di te. Era il tuo cuore che batteva e tu non lo sapevi; lo scambiavi per qualcosa di estraneo. \u00c8 il Dio in te stesso che ti spinge a cercarlo, a realizzarlo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dopo lunghe ricerche qua e l\u00e0, nei templi e nelle chiese, in terra e nei cieli, infine, completando il cerchio da dove sei partito, ritorni nella tua anima e scopri che Colui per il quale hai cercato in tutto il mondo, per il quale hai pianto e preghi nelle chiese e nei templi, sul quale stavi guardando come il mistero di tutti i misteri avvolti nelle nuvole, \u00e8 il pi\u00f9 vicino a te stesso, la realt\u00e0 della tua vita, corpo e anima. Questa \u00e8 la tua natura. Asseriscilo, manifestalo.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17713&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_right&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17711&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_left&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Swami Vivekananda (gennaio 1863 &#8211; luglio 1902), originariamente Narendranath Dutta era il principale discepolo del mistico Ramakrishna Paramahansa del XIX secolo e il fondatore della Ramakrishna Math e della Missione Ramakrishna. Egli \u00e8 considerato una figura chiave nell&#8217;introduzione delle filosofie ind\u00f9 di Vedanta e Yoga nel mondo &#8220;occidentale&#8221;, soprattutto in America e in Europa, ed \u00e8 anche considerato uno dei maggiori esponenti della religione mondiale durante la fine del XIX secolo; Vivekananda \u00e8 considerato una delle principali forze nella rinascita dell&#8217;induismo nell&#8217;India moderna. Egli \u00e8 forse meglio conosciuto per il suo discorso ispiratore che inizia con &#8220;Sisters and Brothers of America&#8221; (&#8220;Sorelle e fratelli d&#8217;America&#8221;), attraverso il quale introdusse l&#8217;induismo al Parlamento delle religioni del mondo a Chicago nel 1893.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Vita e insegnamenti<\/strong>: Swami Vivekananda, conosciuto nella sua vita pre-monastica come Narendranath Datta, nacque in una famiglia benestante a Kolkata il 12 gennaio 1863. Suo padre, Vishwanath Datta, era un avvocato di successo ed aveva interessi per una vasta gamma di argomenti; sua madre, Bhuvaneshwari Devi, era dotata di profonda devozione, possedeva un carattere forte e altre qualit\u00e0. Fu un ragazzo precoce, Narendra eccelleva nella musica, nella ginnastica e negli studi. Quando si \u00e8 laureato all&#8217;Universit\u00e0 di Calcutta, ha acquisito una vasta conoscenza in varie materie, in particolare nella filosofia e nella storia occidentale. Nato con un temperamento yogico, praticava la meditazione fin dall&#8217;infanzia associandosi per diverso tempo al Movimento Brahmo.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17713&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_right&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17569&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_left&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Con Sri Ramakrishna<\/strong>: Durante il periodo della sua giovinezza, Narendra dovette attraversare un periodo di crisi spirituale poich\u00e9 coinvolto dai dubbi sull&#8217;esistenza di Dio. Fu in quel momento che Narendra venne a conoscenza, per la prima volta, da uno dei suoi professori di inglese al college, di Sri Ramakrishna. Un giorno del novembre 1881, Narendra incontr\u00f2 Sri Ramakrishna il quale si trovava al Tempio di Kali a Dakshineshwar. Pose subito al Maestro una domanda che aveva gi\u00e0 fatto a molti altri, ma non ricevette una risposta soddisfacente: &#8220;Signore, ha visto Dio?&#8221; Senza esitare un attimo, Sri Ramakrishna rispose: &#8220;S\u00ec, l&#8217;ho fatto. lo lo vedo chiaramente cosi&#8217; come vedo te, soltanto in modo molto pi\u00f9 intenso&#8221;. Oltre a rimuovere i dubbi dalla mente di Narendra, Sri Ramakrishna lo conquist\u00f2 con il suo amore puro e disinteressato. Inizi\u00f2 cos\u00ec un rapporto guru-discepolo singolare nella storia dei maestri spirituali. Narendra divenne allora un frequente visitatore di Dakshineshwar e, sotto la guida del Maestro, fece rapidi passi avanti nel cammino spirituale. A Dakshineshwar, Narendra incontr\u00f2 anche alcuni giovani che erano devoti a Sri Ramakrishna, e divennero tutti amici intimi.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Situazioni difficili<\/strong>: Dopo qualche anno, si susseguirono due eventi che causarono a Narendra un notevole disagio. Uno fu la morte improvvisa di suo padre nel 1884 cui lasci\u00f2 la famiglia senza un soldo e Narendra dovette sostenere la madre, i fratelli e le sorelle. Il secondo evento fu la malattia di Sri Ramakrishna, alla quale fu diagnosticato un cancro alla gola. Nel settembre 1885 Sri Ramakrishna fu trasferito in una casa a Shyampukur, e qualche mese dopo in una villa in affitto a Cossipore. In questi due luoghi i giovani discepoli curarono il Maestro con dedizione. Nonostante la povert\u00e0 in casa e l&#8217;incapacit\u00e0 di trovare un lavoro per s\u00e9, Narendra si un\u00ec al gruppo come leader.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17715&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_left&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17714&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_right&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Inizi di un fratellanza monastica<\/strong>: Sri Ramakrishna ispir\u00f2 ai giovani lo spirito di rinuncia e l&#8217;amore fraterno l&#8217;uno per l&#8217;altro. Un giorno distribu\u00ec loro delle vesti color ocra e li mand\u00f2 a mendicare cibo. In questo modo, egli stesso pose le basi su cui fondare un nuovo ordine monastico. Diede istruzioni specifiche a Narendra sulla formazione del nuovo ordine monastico. Nelle prime ore del 16 agosto 1886 Sri Ramakrishna si arrese alla morte.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dopo la morte del Maestro, quindici dei suoi giovani discepoli (un altro si aggiunse successivamente) iniziarono a vivere insieme in un edificio fatiscente a Baranagar, nel nord di Calcutta. Sotto la guida di Narendra, formarono una nuova fratellanza monastica e nel 1887 pronunciarono i voti formali di sannyasa, acquisendo cos\u00ec nuovi nomi. Narendra ora divenne Swami Vivekananda (anche se prese questo nome molto pi\u00f9 tardi).<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>La consapevolezza della missione della vita<\/strong>: Dopo aver istituito il nuovo ordine monastico, Vivekananda sent\u00ec la vocazione interiore a favore di una missione pi\u00f9 grande nella sua vita. Se la maggior parte dei seguaci di Sri Ramakrishna lo consideravano in relazione alle loro vite personali, Vivekananda pensava al Maestro per quanto concerne l&#8217;India e il resto del mondo. Come profeta dell&#8217;epoca attuale, qual era il messaggio di Sri Ramakrishna al mondo moderno e all&#8217;India in particolare? Questa domanda e la consapevolezza delle potenzialit\u00e0 intrinseche di Swamiji lo spinsero ad affrontare da solo il mondo intero. E cos\u00ec, a met\u00e0 del 1890, dopo aver ricevuto le benedizioni di Sri Sarada Devi (la consorte divina di Sri Ramakrishna, conosciuta al mondo come Santa Madre che soggiornava allora a Kolkata) Swamiji lasci\u00f2 Baranagar Math per intraprendere un lungo viaggio di esplorazione e scoperta dell&#8217;India.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17716&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_right&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17717&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_left&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alla scoperta della vera India<\/strong>: Durante i suoi viaggi in tutta l&#8217;India, Swami Vivekananda fu profondamente colpito nel vedere la terribile povert\u00e0 e l&#8217;arretratezza delle masse. Fu il primo leader religioso in India a comprendere e dichiarare apertamente che la vera causa della caduta dell&#8217;India fosse dovuta all&#8217;abbandono delle masse. La necessit\u00e0 immediata era quella di fornire cibo e altre semplici risorse di sopravvivenza a milioni di persone affamate. Per questo si dovrebbero insegnare loro delle migliori tecniche agricole, creare delle aziende locali, ecc. Fu in questo contesto che Vivekananda si rese conto del problema cruciale della povert\u00e0 in India (problema che era sfuggito all&#8217;attenzione dei riformatori sociali dei suoi tempi): a causa di secoli di oppressione, le masse sopraffatte avevano perso fiducia nelle loro capacit\u00e0 di migliorare la loro sorte. Prima di tutto era necessario infondere nella loro mente la fede in s\u00e9 stessi. Per questo avevano bisogno di un messaggio vivificante e ispiratore. Swamiji trov\u00f2 questo messaggio nel principio dell&#8217;Atman, la dottrina della potenziale divinit\u00e0 dell&#8217;anima, insegnata in Vedanta, l&#8217;antico sistema di filosofia religiosa dell&#8217;India. Egli vide che, nonostante la povert\u00e0, le masse si aggrappavano alla religione, ma non erano mai stati insegnati loro i principi vivificanti e nobilitanti dei Vedanta e neppure come applicarli nella vita pratica.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cos\u00ec le masse avevano bisogno di due tipi di conoscenza: la conoscenza secolare per migliorare la loro condizione economica e la conoscenza spirituale per infondere in loro la fede in se stessi e rafforzare il loro senso morale. La domanda successiva era: come diffondere questi due tipi di conoscenza tra le masse? Attraverso l&#8217;educazione &#8211; questa \u00e8 stata la risposta che Swamiji diede.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Necessit\u00e0 di un&#8217;organizzazione<\/strong>: Una cosa risult\u00f2 ovvia a Swamiji: per realizzare i suoi piani per la diffusione dell&#8217;educazione e per l&#8217;elevazione delle masse povere, e anche delle donne, era necessaria un&#8217;efficiente organizzazione costituita da persone motivate. Come disse in seguito, voleva &#8220;mettere in moto una macchina che porti le idee pi\u00f9 nobili anche alle porte dei pi\u00f9 poveri e dei pi\u00f9 meschini&#8221;. Swamiji fond\u00f2 la missione Ramakrishna qualche anno dopo, al fine di fungere da \u00abmacchina\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17718&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_right&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17719&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_left&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>La decisione di presenziare al Parlamento delle Religioni<\/strong>: Fu quando queste idee si concretizzarono nella sua mente nel corso dei suoi vagabondaggi che Swami Vivekananda sent\u00ec parlare del Parlamento Mondiale delle Religioni che si sarebbe tenuto a Chicago nel 1893. I suoi amici e ammiratori in India volevano che lui presenziasse al Parlamento. Convinto che il Parlamento sarebbe stato il luogo giusto per presentare il messaggio del suo Maestro al mondo, decise di andare in America. Un altro motivo che spinse Swamiji ad andare in America fu quello di cercare aiuto finanziario per il suo progetto di elevare le masse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Swamiji, tuttavia, desiderava avere una conferma interiore e una chiamata divina riguardo alla sua missione. Ottenne entrambe le cose sull&#8217;isola rocciosa di Kanyakumari, mentre si trovava in profonda meditazione. Con i fondi in parte raccolti dai suoi discepoli di Chennai e in parte forniti dal Raja di Khetri, Swami Vivekananda part\u00ec per l&#8217;America da Mumbai il 31 maggio 1893.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00abAscolta il discorso di Chicago di Swami Vivekananda (in inglese).\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Al Parlamento delle Religioni e oltre<\/strong>: I discorsi di Vivekananda al Parlamento Mondiale delle Religioni del settembre 1893 lo resero famoso sia come &#8220;oratore di diritto divino&#8221; che come &#8220;Messaggero di saggezza indiana al mondo occidentale&#8221;. Dopo il Parlamento, Swamiji trascorse quasi tre anni e mezzo a diffondere il Vedanta nella versione vissuta e insegnata da Sri Ramakrishna, soprattutto nella parte orientale degli Stati Uniti e anche a Londra.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17720&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_right&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17721&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_left&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Risvegliando i suoi connazionali<\/strong>: Vivekananda torn\u00f2 in India nel gennaio 1897. In risposta all&#8217;entusiasta accoglienza che ricevette in ogni parte del mondo, tenne una serie di conferenze in diverse parti dell&#8217;India, suscitando grande scalpore in tutto il paese. Attraverso queste stimolanti e profondamente significative conferenze, Swamiji tent\u00f2 di fare quanto segue per:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Risvegliare la coscienza religiosa del popolo e creare in loro l&#8217;orgoglio per la loro eredit\u00e0 culturale;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Realizzare l&#8217;unificazione dell&#8217;induismo, evidenziando le basi comuni delle sue sette;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Focalizzare l&#8217;attenzione delle persone istruite sulla difficile situazione delle masse oppresse, e per esporre il suo piano per la loro elevazione attraverso l&#8217;applicazione dei principi dei Pratici Vedanta.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fondandazione della Missione Ramakrishna<\/strong>: Poco dopo il ritorno di Vivekananda a Kolkata, Swami Vivekananda complet\u00f2 un altro importante compito della sua missione sulla terra. Egli fond\u00f2 il 1\u00b0 maggio 1897 un organismo unico nel suo genere, noto come Missione Ramakrishna, in cui monaci e laici si impegnavano congiuntamente nella diffusione dei Pratical Vedanta, e di varie forme di servizio sociale, come la dirigenza di ospedali, scuole, collegi, ostelli, centri di sviluppo rurale, ecc. e lo svolgimento di massicci lavori di soccorso e riabilitazione per le vittime di terremoti, cicloni e altre calamit\u00e0, in diverse parti dell&#8217;India e di altri paesi.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17722&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_right&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17723&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_left&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Il Belur Math<\/strong>: All&#8217;inizio del 1898, Swami Vivekananda acquist\u00f2 un grande appezzamento di terreno sulla riva occidentale del Ganga, in un luogo chiamato Belur, in modo da disporre di una dimora permanente per il monastero e l&#8217;Ordine monastico. Il nome originale era stato creato a Baranagar; dopo un paio d&#8217;anni lo fece registrare con il nome di Ramakrishna Math. Qui, Swamiji fond\u00f2 un nuovo modello universale di vita monastica che si adatta agli antichi ideali monastici secondo le condizioni della vita moderna, dando pari importanza alla illuminazione personale e al servizio sociale, ed \u00e8 aperta a tutti gli uomini senza alcuna distinzione di religione, razza o casta.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Discepoli<\/strong>: In Occidente molte persone sono state influenzate dalla vita e dal messaggio di Swami Vivekananda. Alcuni di loro divennero suoi discepoli o amici devoti. Tra questi, vanno menzionati in particolare i nomi di Margaret Noble (poi conosciuta come Suor Nivedita), Capitano e Signora Sevier, Josephine McLeod e Sara Ole Bull. Nivedita dedic\u00f2 la sua vita ad educare le ragazze di Kolkata. Swamiji contava anche molti discepoli indiani, alcuni dei quali si unirono a Ramakrishna Math e divennero sannyasin.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17724&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_right&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17725&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;element_from_left&#8221; transition_delay=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ultimi giorni<\/strong>: Nel giugno 1899 Vivekananda and\u00f2 in Occidente per una seconda visita. Questa volta trascorse la maggior parte del suo tempo sulla costa occidentale degli Stati Uniti. Dopo avervi tenuto molte conferenze, nel dicembre 1900 torn\u00f2 a Belur Math. Per il resto della sua vita rimase in India, ispirando e guidando persone, sia monastiche che laiche. Il suo incessante lavoro, specialmente tenendo conferenze e ispirando le persone, raccontava della salute di Swamiji. La sua salute peggior\u00f2 e la morte arriv\u00f2 in silenzio la notte del 4 luglio 1902. Prima del suo Mahasamadhi, aveva scritto a un seguace occidentale: \u00abPu\u00f2 darsi che mi far\u00e0 bene andare via dal mio corpo, per liberarmene come un indumento logoro. Ma non smetter\u00f2 di lavorare. Ispirer\u00f2 gli uomini ovunque, finch\u00e9 il mondo intero non sapr\u00e0 che \u00e8 un tutt&#8217;uno con Dio.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;49&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ngg-galleria-parent nextgen_pro_horizontal_filmstrip\"\n     data-id=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\"\n     id=\"displayed_gallery_6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n\t<div class=\"ngg-galleria\"><\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"ngg-galleria-offscreen-seo-wrapper\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji001_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"The best descriptions of Swamiji around this time have been given by his master, Sri Ramakrishna. On a certain occasion the Master said to the disciples present, pointing to Narendranath, \u201cBehold! Here is Naren. See! See! Oh what power of insight he has! It is like the shoreless sea of radiant knowledge! The Mother, Mahamaya Herself, cannot approach within less than ten feet of him! She is barred by the very glory which She has imparted to him!\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji001_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji001_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"620\"\n               data-title=\"CALCUTTA, circa 1885\"\n               data-description=\"The best descriptions of Swamiji around this time have been given by his master, Sri Ramakrishna. On a certain occasion the Master said to the disciples present, pointing to Narendranath, \u201cBehold! Here is Naren. See! See! Oh what power of insight he has! It is like the shoreless sea of radiant knowledge! The Mother, Mahamaya Herself, cannot approach within less than ten feet of him! She is barred by the very glory which She has imparted to him!\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji001_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CALCUTTA, circa 1885\" alt=\"CALCUTTA, circa 1885\" width=\"280\" height=\"407\" style=\"max-width:280px;max-height:407px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji001_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji001_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji002_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Sri Ramakrishna once said of Swamiji: \u201cHe is a burning, roaring fire consuming all impurities to ashes.\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji002_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji002_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"621\"\n               data-title=\"CALCUTTA, circa 1886\"\n               data-description=\"Sri Ramakrishna once said of Swamiji: \u201cHe is a burning, roaring fire consuming all impurities to ashes.\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji002_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CALCUTTA, circa 1886\" alt=\"CALCUTTA, circa 1886\" width=\"280\" height=\"347\" style=\"max-width:280px;max-height:347px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji002_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji002_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji003_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Judging from Swamiji\u2019s appearance, this photo seems to have been taken around the same time as the two following photographs, 4 and 5.\r\nShortly before Sri Ramakrishna gave up his body at Cossipore, Swamiji had an exalted spiritual experience there. Seeing him Sri Ramakrishna said: \u201cNow then, the Mother has shown you everything. Just as a treasure is locked up in a box, so will this realization you have just had be locked up and the key shall remain with me. You have work to do. When you have finished my work, the treasure box will be unlocked again; and you will know everything then, as you did just now.\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji003_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji003_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"622\"\n               data-title=\"COSSIPORE GARDEN HOUSE, 1886\"\n               data-description=\"Judging from Swamiji\u2019s appearance, this photo seems to have been taken around the same time as the two following photographs, 4 and 5.\r\nShortly before Sri Ramakrishna gave up his body at Cossipore, Swamiji had an exalted spiritual experience there. Seeing him Sri Ramakrishna said: \u201cNow then, the Mother has shown you everything. Just as a treasure is locked up in a box, so will this realization you have just had be locked up and the key shall remain with me. You have work to do. When you have finished my work, the treasure box will be unlocked again; and you will know everything then, as you did just now.\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji003_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"COSSIPORE GARDEN HOUSE, 1886\" alt=\"COSSIPORE GARDEN HOUSE, 1886\" width=\"280\" height=\"451\" style=\"max-width:280px;max-height:451px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji003_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji003_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji004_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"There are at the four corners of the cot [cot not shown] upright members for supporting a mosquito curtain. The top and bottom uprights of the cot\u2019s left side are tied with garlands. Part of the Cossipore garden house is shown behind. A pile of bedding (possibly bedding used by Ramakrishna, set out to sun) can be seen on the left. More than fifty people - devotees and friends -are seen in the picture, ranged behind the cot. About half of these people have been identified.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji004_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji004_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"623\"\n               data-title=\"COSSIPORE GARDEN HOUSE, AUGUST 16, 1886\"\n               data-description=\"There are at the four corners of the cot [cot not shown] upright members for supporting a mosquito curtain. The top and bottom uprights of the cot\u2019s left side are tied with garlands. Part of the Cossipore garden house is shown behind. A pile of bedding (possibly bedding used by Ramakrishna, set out to sun) can be seen on the left. More than fifty people - devotees and friends -are seen in the picture, ranged behind the cot. About half of these people have been identified.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji004_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"COSSIPORE GARDEN HOUSE, AUGUST 16, 1886\" alt=\"COSSIPORE GARDEN HOUSE, AUGUST 16, 1886\" width=\"500\" height=\"197\" style=\"max-width:500px;max-height:197px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji004_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji004_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji005_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"There are at the four corners of the cot [cot not shown] upright members for supporting a mosquito curtain. The top and bottom uprights of the cot\u2019s left side are tied with garlands. Part of the Cossipore garden house is shown behind. A pile of bedding (possibly bedding used by Ramakrishna, set out to sun) can be seen on the left. More than fifty people - devotees and friends -are seen in the picture, ranged behind the cot. About half of these people have been identified.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji005_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji005_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"624\"\n               data-title=\"COSSIPORE GARDEN HOUSE, AUGUST 16, 1886\"\n               data-description=\"There are at the four corners of the cot [cot not shown] upright members for supporting a mosquito curtain. The top and bottom uprights of the cot\u2019s left side are tied with garlands. Part of the Cossipore garden house is shown behind. A pile of bedding (possibly bedding used by Ramakrishna, set out to sun) can be seen on the left. More than fifty people - devotees and friends -are seen in the picture, ranged behind the cot. About half of these people have been identified.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji005_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"COSSIPORE GARDEN HOUSE, AUGUST 16, 1886\" alt=\"COSSIPORE GARDEN HOUSE, AUGUST 16, 1886\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" style=\"max-width:500px;max-height:225px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji005_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji005_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji006_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"A Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna was published by the San Francisco Vedanta Society in 1912 under Swami Trigunatita\u2019s direction. A quaint variation of this Baranagore Math photograph was printed in the 1912 edition of the Gospel. Perhaps Swami Trigunatita, not wanting to offend Western sensibilities, had this photo reproduced with the monks and devotees fully clothed.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji006_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji006_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"625\"\n               data-title=\"BARANAGORE MATH, JANUARY 30, 1887\"\n               data-description=\"A Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna was published by the San Francisco Vedanta Society in 1912 under Swami Trigunatita\u2019s direction. A quaint variation of this Baranagore Math photograph was printed in the 1912 edition of the Gospel. Perhaps Swami Trigunatita, not wanting to offend Western sensibilities, had this photo reproduced with the monks and devotees fully clothed.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji006_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"BARANAGORE MATH, JANUARY 30, 1887\" alt=\"BARANAGORE MATH, JANUARY 30, 1887\" width=\"450\" height=\"286\" style=\"max-width:450px;max-height:286px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji006_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji006_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji007_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Photos 7 and 8 were probably taken on the same day in Jaipur, 1891. The Life mentions: \u201cAt Jaipur the disciple [perhaps Lala Govinda Sahai whom Swamiji initiated in Rajputana in 1891] insisted on the swami\u2019s posing for a photograph. The swami, much against his wishes, finally consented. This was the first time that a photo of him as a wandering monk was taken.\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji007_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji007_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"626\"\n               data-title=\"JAIPUR, 1891 (probably)\"\n               data-description=\"Photos 7 and 8 were probably taken on the same day in Jaipur, 1891. The Life mentions: \u201cAt Jaipur the disciple [perhaps Lala Govinda Sahai whom Swamiji initiated in Rajputana in 1891] insisted on the swami\u2019s posing for a photograph. The swami, much against his wishes, finally consented. This was the first time that a photo of him as a wandering monk was taken.\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji007_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"JAIPUR, 1891 (probably)\" alt=\"JAIPUR, 1891 (probably)\" width=\"280\" height=\"410\" style=\"max-width:280px;max-height:410px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji007_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji007_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji008_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Photos 7 and 8 were probably taken on the same day in Jaipur, 1891. The Life mentions: \u201cAt Jaipur the disciple [perhaps Lala Govinda Sahai whom Swamiji initiated in Rajputana in 1891] insisted on the swami\u2019s posing for a photograph. The swami, much against his wishes, finally consented. This was the first time that a photo of him as a wandering monk was taken.\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji008_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji008_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"627\"\n               data-title=\"JAIPUR, 1891 (probably)\"\n               data-description=\"Photos 7 and 8 were probably taken on the same day in Jaipur, 1891. The Life mentions: \u201cAt Jaipur the disciple [perhaps Lala Govinda Sahai whom Swamiji initiated in Rajputana in 1891] insisted on the swami\u2019s posing for a photograph. The swami, much against his wishes, finally consented. This was the first time that a photo of him as a wandering monk was taken.\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji008_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"JAIPUR, 1891 (probably)\" alt=\"JAIPUR, 1891 (probably)\" width=\"280\" height=\"384\" style=\"max-width:280px;max-height:384px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji008_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji008_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji009_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Haripada Mitra was one of Swamiji&#039;s hosts while he was staying in Belgaum in 1892. In his reminiscences, he recalled his first impression of Swamiji when he was told: &quot;Here is a learned Bengali sannyasin who has come to meet you.\u201d I turned back and found a serene figure with his eyes flashing like lightning and a face clean shaven. His body was covered with an ochre robe, in [on] his feet he had strapped sandals of the Maharashtrian type; and on his head was an ochre turban. The figure was so impressive that it is still vivid in my memory.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji009_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji009_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"628\"\n               data-title=\"BELGAUM, OCTOBER 1892\"\n               data-description=\"Haripada Mitra was one of Swamiji&#039;s hosts while he was staying in Belgaum in 1892. In his reminiscences, he recalled his first impression of Swamiji when he was told: &quot;Here is a learned Bengali sannyasin who has come to meet you.\u201d I turned back and found a serene figure with his eyes flashing like lightning and a face clean shaven. His body was covered with an ochre robe, in [on] his feet he had strapped sandals of the Maharashtrian type; and on his head was an ochre turban. The figure was so impressive that it is still vivid in my memory.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji009_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"BELGAUM, OCTOBER 1892\" alt=\"BELGAUM, OCTOBER 1892\" width=\"280\" height=\"418\" style=\"max-width:280px;max-height:418px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji009_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji009_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji010_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photo was taken by Prince Martanda Varma of Travancore. K. Sundararama Iyer, the tutor of Prince Martanda Varma (the first prince of Travancore), remarked in his reminiscences: \u201cThe Prince was struck, like all others who had come into contact with him, with the swami\u2019s striking figure and attractive features; and being an amateur photographer, asked the swami for a sitting and took a fine photograph which he skillfully developed into an impressive picture and later on sent as an interesting exhibit to the next Fine Arts Exhibition held in the Chennai Museum.\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji010_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji010_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"629\"\n               data-title=\"TRIVANDRUM, DECEMBER 1892\"\n               data-description=\"This photo was taken by Prince Martanda Varma of Travancore. K. Sundararama Iyer, the tutor of Prince Martanda Varma (the first prince of Travancore), remarked in his reminiscences: \u201cThe Prince was struck, like all others who had come into contact with him, with the swami\u2019s striking figure and attractive features; and being an amateur photographer, asked the swami for a sitting and took a fine photograph which he skillfully developed into an impressive picture and later on sent as an interesting exhibit to the next Fine Arts Exhibition held in the Chennai Museum.\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji010_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"TRIVANDRUM, DECEMBER 1892\" alt=\"TRIVANDRUM, DECEMBER 1892\" width=\"280\" height=\"351\" style=\"max-width:280px;max-height:351px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji010_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji010_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji011_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photo is usually identified as &quot;probably Belgaum,&quot; 1892 and the next photo, # 12, as Hyderabad, 1893. This information seems doubtful. Upon close examination it appears that both of these photographs were taken on the same day, wherever it may have been. There are reasons to believe that photo #11 was not taken in Belgaum. Haripada Mitra, Swamiji\u2019s disciple in Belgaum, with whom he stayed for nine days (October 1927, 1892), arranged for photo # 9. Initially Swamiji resisted being photographed, so it is not likely that he would have agreed to have a second and a third photograph taken while in Belgaum.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji011_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji011_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"630\"\n               data-title=\"PLACE UNKNOWN (at present), circa 1892 or early 1893\"\n               data-description=\"This photo is usually identified as &quot;probably Belgaum,&quot; 1892 and the next photo, # 12, as Hyderabad, 1893. This information seems doubtful. Upon close examination it appears that both of these photographs were taken on the same day, wherever it may have been. There are reasons to believe that photo #11 was not taken in Belgaum. Haripada Mitra, Swamiji\u2019s disciple in Belgaum, with whom he stayed for nine days (October 1927, 1892), arranged for photo # 9. Initially Swamiji resisted being photographed, so it is not likely that he would have agreed to have a second and a third photograph taken while in Belgaum.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji011_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"PLACE UNKNOWN (at present), circa 1892 or early 1893\" alt=\"PLACE UNKNOWN (at present), circa 1892 or early 1893\" width=\"280\" height=\"384\" style=\"max-width:280px;max-height:384px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji011_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji011_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji012_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Another interesting anecdote about Swamiji\u2019s appearance around this time comes from D. B. Raghunath Rao, the youngest son of D. R. Balaji Rao of Chennai, who was a close friend of Swamiji. Balaji told his son: &quot;Swamiji was an arresting personality with handsome features, always smiling and had a robust constitution. His voice had a pleasant ringing tone.&quot; Raghunath Rao continues: &quot;My father who was fond of tying his turban in various modes, presented one such length of cloth to Swamiji. It is this that adorns his head in the popular photographs published; and the sash around his waist which we also see in the photos [Chicago, 1893] was presented to him by the Maharaja of Khetri.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji012_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji012_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"631\"\n               data-title=\"PLACE UNKNOWN (at present), circa 1892 or early 1893\"\n               data-description=\"Another interesting anecdote about Swamiji\u2019s appearance around this time comes from D. B. Raghunath Rao, the youngest son of D. R. Balaji Rao of Chennai, who was a close friend of Swamiji. Balaji told his son: &quot;Swamiji was an arresting personality with handsome features, always smiling and had a robust constitution. His voice had a pleasant ringing tone.&quot; Raghunath Rao continues: &quot;My father who was fond of tying his turban in various modes, presented one such length of cloth to Swamiji. It is this that adorns his head in the popular photographs published; and the sash around his waist which we also see in the photos [Chicago, 1893] was presented to him by the Maharaja of Khetri.&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji012_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"PLACE UNKNOWN (at present), circa 1892 or early 1893\" alt=\"PLACE UNKNOWN (at present), circa 1892 or early 1893\" width=\"280\" height=\"449\" style=\"max-width:280px;max-height:449px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji012_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji012_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji013_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photo is often referred to as probably at the Hale residence, Chicago, 1893. But &quot;Mrs. Herbert E. Hyde (Mary Hale\u2019s niece) could not recognize this as being a room in the Hale\u2019s house or in the Walton Place flat\u00beboth of which places she knew very well as a child.&quot; Sister Gargi (Marie Louise Burke) has speculated that if the photo were taken in 1893 before the Parliament of Religions, then it could possibly have been taken in the Lyon\u2019s house in Chicago.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji013_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji013_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"632\"\n               data-title=\"IN AMERICA\"\n               data-description=\"This photo is often referred to as probably at the Hale residence, Chicago, 1893. But &quot;Mrs. Herbert E. Hyde (Mary Hale\u2019s niece) could not recognize this as being a room in the Hale\u2019s house or in the Walton Place flat\u00beboth of which places she knew very well as a child.&quot; Sister Gargi (Marie Louise Burke) has speculated that if the photo were taken in 1893 before the Parliament of Religions, then it could possibly have been taken in the Lyon\u2019s house in Chicago.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji013_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"IN AMERICA\" alt=\"IN AMERICA\" width=\"280\" height=\"385\" style=\"max-width:280px;max-height:385px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji013_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji013_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji014_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph appeared for the first time in Neely\u2019s History of the Parliament of Religions and Religious Congresses at the World\u2019s Columbian Exposition published in Chicago in 1893. From left to right: &quot;Narasimha Chaira [Narasimhacharya of Chennai], Lakeshnie Narain [Lakshmi Narain, a barrister from Lahore], Swami Vivekananda, H. Dharmapala [Anagarika Hewivitarne Dharmapala, a Buddhist from Ceylon and later the founder of the Mahabodhi Society in Kolkata], and Vichand Ghandi [Virchand Gandhi, a lawyer of Mumbai and the chief exponent of the Jain religion.]&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji014_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji014_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"633\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 -- The East Indian Group\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph appeared for the first time in Neely\u2019s History of the Parliament of Religions and Religious Congresses at the World\u2019s Columbian Exposition published in Chicago in 1893. From left to right: &quot;Narasimha Chaira [Narasimhacharya of Chennai], Lakeshnie Narain [Lakshmi Narain, a barrister from Lahore], Swami Vivekananda, H. Dharmapala [Anagarika Hewivitarne Dharmapala, a Buddhist from Ceylon and later the founder of the Mahabodhi Society in Kolkata], and Vichand Ghandi [Virchand Gandhi, a lawyer of Mumbai and the chief exponent of the Jain religion.]&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji014_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 -- The East Indian Group\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 -- The East Indian Group\" width=\"350\" height=\"269\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:269px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji014_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji014_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji015_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph of Swamiji as a delegate to the Parliament of Religions also appeared in Neely\u2019s History of the Parliament of Religions. It appears to have been taken not only on the same day as the East Indian Group, but at the same time. Swamiji is holding a piece of paper in his hand (although in this photo it is in his right hand, in the group photo it is in his left hand) and his official delegate tag is pinned to his robe in both photos. The drape of his turban and his general stance suggest that the two photos were taken one after the other.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji015_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji015_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"634\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 -- Swami Vivekananda, Hindu Monk\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph of Swamiji as a delegate to the Parliament of Religions also appeared in Neely\u2019s History of the Parliament of Religions. It appears to have been taken not only on the same day as the East Indian Group, but at the same time. Swamiji is holding a piece of paper in his hand (although in this photo it is in his right hand, in the group photo it is in his left hand) and his official delegate tag is pinned to his robe in both photos. The drape of his turban and his general stance suggest that the two photos were taken one after the other.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji015_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 -- Swami Vivekananda, Hindu Monk\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 -- Swami Vivekananda, Hindu Monk\" width=\"252\" height=\"576\" style=\"max-width:252px;max-height:576px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji015_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji015_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji016_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"From all appearances this photo seems to have been taken on the afternoon of the opening day of the parliament, September 11, 1893. Swamiji appears apprehensive.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji016_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji016_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"635\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\"\n               data-description=\"From all appearances this photo seems to have been taken on the afternoon of the opening day of the parliament, September 11, 1893. Swamiji appears apprehensive.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji016_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\" width=\"350\" height=\"246\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:246px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji016_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji016_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji017_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This unposed snapshot is one of the first pictures of Swamiji in America. &quot;Perhaps it is not so clear as one would like his pictures to be, but it nonetheless belongs to his history.&quot; It can be reasonably assumed that it was taken in the room marked &quot;No. 1-keep out.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji017_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji017_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"636\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\"\n               data-description=\"This unposed snapshot is one of the first pictures of Swamiji in America. &quot;Perhaps it is not so clear as one would like his pictures to be, but it nonetheless belongs to his history.&quot; It can be reasonably assumed that it was taken in the room marked &quot;No. 1-keep out.&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji017_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\" width=\"280\" height=\"393\" style=\"max-width:280px;max-height:393px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji017_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji017_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji018_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph was taken on the morning of September 21, 1893-the eleventh day of the parliament. It was published in 1893 as the frontispiece of John Henry Barrows\u2019, The World\u2019s Parliament of Religions, Volume 1.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji018_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji018_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"637\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph was taken on the morning of September 21, 1893-the eleventh day of the parliament. It was published in 1893 as the frontispiece of John Henry Barrows\u2019, The World\u2019s Parliament of Religions, Volume 1.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji018_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\" width=\"500\" height=\"230\" style=\"max-width:500px;max-height:230px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji018_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji018_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji019_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph was published for the first time in volume two of Barrows\u2019 history in connection with Swamiji\u2019s talk on &quot;Hinduism&quot; which was given on the ninth day of the parliament, September 19. But to date, there is not sufficient proof that it was taken on that day.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji019_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji019_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"638\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph was published for the first time in volume two of Barrows\u2019 history in connection with Swamiji\u2019s talk on &quot;Hinduism&quot; which was given on the ninth day of the parliament, September 19. But to date, there is not sufficient proof that it was taken on that day.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji019_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\" width=\"280\" height=\"377\" style=\"max-width:280px;max-height:377px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji019_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji019_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji020_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This is the famous Chicago pose. The next seven photographs are part of what the Vedanta Society of Northern California calls the &quot;Harrison series.&quot; Swamiji has autographed five of these photos and inscribed them with English translations of Sanskrit sayings, some of which have the original Sanskrit written in Bengali characters. These photographs were taken by a photographer named Thomas Harrison, who was located in Chicago at that time at &quot;Central Music Hall, Cor. State &amp; Randolph Sts.&quot; Most of the Harrison photographs in the Vedanta Society\u2019s collection have this information at the bottom of the pictures.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji020_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji020_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"639\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\"\n               data-description=\"This is the famous Chicago pose. The next seven photographs are part of what the Vedanta Society of Northern California calls the &quot;Harrison series.&quot; Swamiji has autographed five of these photos and inscribed them with English translations of Sanskrit sayings, some of which have the original Sanskrit written in Bengali characters. These photographs were taken by a photographer named Thomas Harrison, who was located in Chicago at that time at &quot;Central Music Hall, Cor. State &amp; Randolph Sts.&quot; Most of the Harrison photographs in the Vedanta Society\u2019s collection have this information at the bottom of the pictures.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji020_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" width=\"198\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:198px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji020_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji020_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji021_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Swamiji has written in Bengali characters, as well as in English: \u201cOne infinite pure and holy-- beyond thought beyond qualities I bow down to thee&quot; - Swami Vivekananda\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji021_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji021_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"640\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\"\n               data-description=\"Swamiji has written in Bengali characters, as well as in English: \u201cOne infinite pure and holy-- beyond thought beyond qualities I bow down to thee&quot; - Swami Vivekananda\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji021_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" width=\"247\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:247px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji021_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji021_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji022_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"During the Parliament of Religions, this poster of Swamiji (based on photo 21) was made by the Goes Lithographic Co., Chicago, 1893. It was posted throughout the city to draw people\u2019s attention to the fair. Swamiji had become famous overnight and was a major attraction.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji022_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji022_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"641\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\"\n               data-description=\"During the Parliament of Religions, this poster of Swamiji (based on photo 21) was made by the Goes Lithographic Co., Chicago, 1893. It was posted throughout the city to draw people\u2019s attention to the fair. Swamiji had become famous overnight and was a major attraction.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji022_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\" width=\"242\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:242px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji022_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji022_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji023_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Swamiji has inscribed this photo: \u201cSamata sarvabhuteshu etanmuktasya lakshanam. Equality in all beings this is the sign of the free -- Vivekananda\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji023_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji023_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"642\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\"\n               data-description=\"Swamiji has inscribed this photo: \u201cSamata sarvabhuteshu etanmuktasya lakshanam. Equality in all beings this is the sign of the free -- Vivekananda\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji023_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" width=\"271\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:271px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji023_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji023_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji024_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph of Swamiji bears the inscription: \u201cThou art the only treasure in this world -- Vivekananda\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji024_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji024_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"643\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph of Swamiji bears the inscription: \u201cThou art the only treasure in this world -- Vivekananda\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji024_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" width=\"228\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:228px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji024_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji024_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji025_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Swamiji mentioned the Harrison photographs early on to Alasinga Perumal, particularly with reference to stimulating an interest in his work amongst some of his admirers in India, such as Ajit Singh, the Maharaja of Khetri, and His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore (Shri Chamarajendra Wadiyar). In a letter written to Alasinga from Chicago on November 2, 1893, he mentioned that he had sent one of these photos to the Maharaja of Khetri.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji025_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji025_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"644\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\"\n               data-description=\"Swamiji mentioned the Harrison photographs early on to Alasinga Perumal, particularly with reference to stimulating an interest in his work amongst some of his admirers in India, such as Ajit Singh, the Maharaja of Khetri, and His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore (Shri Chamarajendra Wadiyar). In a letter written to Alasinga from Chicago on November 2, 1893, he mentioned that he had sent one of these photos to the Maharaja of Khetri.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji025_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" width=\"269\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:269px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji025_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji025_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji026_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph was first published in Neely&#039;s History of the Parliament of Religions and Religious Congresses at the World&#039;s Columbian Exposition in 1893 without the inscription, but bearing the caption Swami Vivekananda. It is interesting to note that Neely published more photographs of Swamiji than any other delegate to the parliament.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji026_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji026_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"645\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph was first published in Neely&#039;s History of the Parliament of Religions and Religious Congresses at the World&#039;s Columbian Exposition in 1893 without the inscription, but bearing the caption Swami Vivekananda. It is interesting to note that Neely published more photographs of Swamiji than any other delegate to the parliament.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji026_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" width=\"228\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:228px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji026_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji026_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji027_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Sister Devamata related a story of how she first heard about Swamiji. After the Parliament of Religions, she along with her mother and sister met a Swedenborgian minister in Ohio, who had attended the parliament in Chicago. He enthusiastically described various aspects of the sessions to them: &quot; &#039;But,&#039; he continued, &#039;there was one speaker who stood out above all others, because of his learning, his eloquence and his impressive personality. No other could compare with him except two or three Roman Catholic prelates, and they had sent their best men.&#039; He paused, leaving his brilliant figure without name or nationality. &#039;Who was he?&#039; I asked eagerly. The minister replied quietly: &#039;A Hindu -- Swami Vivekananda.&#039; &quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji027_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji027_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"646\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\"\n               data-description=\"Sister Devamata related a story of how she first heard about Swamiji. After the Parliament of Religions, she along with her mother and sister met a Swedenborgian minister in Ohio, who had attended the parliament in Chicago. He enthusiastically described various aspects of the sessions to them: &quot; &#039;But,&#039; he continued, &#039;there was one speaker who stood out above all others, because of his learning, his eloquence and his impressive personality. No other could compare with him except two or three Roman Catholic prelates, and they had sent their best men.&#039; He paused, leaving his brilliant figure without name or nationality. &#039;Who was he?&#039; I asked eagerly. The minister replied quietly: &#039;A Hindu -- Swami Vivekananda.&#039; &quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji027_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893 (Harrison)\" width=\"272\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:272px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji027_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji027_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji028_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph was taken during the closing session of the parliament on the evening of September 27. We know that Swamiji was present on the platform that evening because he had been invited to give one of the final addresses. It was in this talk that he made his famous sweeping remark: &quot;The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the others and yet preserve its individuality and grow according to its own law of growth.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji028_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji028_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"647\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph was taken during the closing session of the parliament on the evening of September 27. We know that Swamiji was present on the platform that evening because he had been invited to give one of the final addresses. It was in this talk that he made his famous sweeping remark: &quot;The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the others and yet preserve its individuality and grow according to its own law of growth.&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji028_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\" alt=\"CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 1893\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\" style=\"max-width:500px;max-height:272px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji028_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji028_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji029_en.jpg\"\n               title=\". . . the great and glorious soul that came to the Parliament of Religions, so full of love of God, that his face shone with divine light, whose words were fire, whose very presence created an atmosphere of harmony and purity, thereby drawing all souls to himself.\r\nWhen one looks at this photograph one can easily understand what Mary meant, for as Sister Gargi says:\r\nOne cannot fail to be moved by the childlike tenderness of Swamiji&#039;s appearance, and by the wonderful peace and calm of his expression.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji029_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji029_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"648\"\n               data-title=\"CHICAGO, 1894\"\n               data-description=\". . . the great and glorious soul that came to the Parliament of Religions, so full of love of God, that his face shone with divine light, whose words were fire, whose very presence created an atmosphere of harmony and purity, thereby drawing all souls to himself.\r\nWhen one looks at this photograph one can easily understand what Mary meant, for as Sister Gargi says:\r\nOne cannot fail to be moved by the childlike tenderness of Swamiji&#039;s appearance, and by the wonderful peace and calm of his expression.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji029_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHICAGO, 1894\" alt=\"CHICAGO, 1894\" width=\"289\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:289px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji029_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji029_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji030_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"In this photo Swamiji is seated under the \u201cSwami\u2019s Pine\u201d with his class. \u201cThis photograph was discovered by Elva Nelson [of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Boston] and may well be the photograph he spoke of in his letter to the Hale sisters: \u2018Herewith I send a photograph Cora Stockham took of the group under the tree. It is only a proof and will fade away under exposure, but I cannot get anything better at present.\u2019 Very likely a more durable print was made for both pictures [# 30 and 33] which have been taken from finished photographs.\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji030_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji030_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"649\"\n               data-title=\"GREENACRE, AUGUST 1894\"\n               data-description=\"In this photo Swamiji is seated under the \u201cSwami\u2019s Pine\u201d with his class. \u201cThis photograph was discovered by Elva Nelson [of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Boston] and may well be the photograph he spoke of in his letter to the Hale sisters: \u2018Herewith I send a photograph Cora Stockham took of the group under the tree. It is only a proof and will fade away under exposure, but I cannot get anything better at present.\u2019 Very likely a more durable print was made for both pictures [# 30 and 33] which have been taken from finished photographs.\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji030_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"GREENACRE, AUGUST 1894\" alt=\"GREENACRE, AUGUST 1894\" width=\"350\" height=\"276\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:276px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji030_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji030_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji031_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This is yet another, heretofore unknown, picture of Swamiji seated under his pine with one of his classes. Elva Nelson acquired this photo, as well as # 32, from the Baha&#039;i Archives now located at Green Acre in Eliot, Maine.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji031_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji031_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"650\"\n               data-title=\"GREEN ACRE, AUGUST 1894\"\n               data-description=\"This is yet another, heretofore unknown, picture of Swamiji seated under his pine with one of his classes. Elva Nelson acquired this photo, as well as # 32, from the Baha&#039;i Archives now located at Green Acre in Eliot, Maine.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji031_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"GREEN ACRE, AUGUST 1894\" alt=\"GREEN ACRE, AUGUST 1894\" width=\"350\" height=\"275\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:275px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji031_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji031_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji032_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"In New Discoveries a reference is made to another photo that Cora Stockham took at Green Acre. \u201cFrom the Portsmouth Daily Chronicle of August 9 one learns that Miss Stockham took another group picture (yet to be unearthed) in which Swamiji was present. This time it was in the Tent following a lecture given by Dr. Edward Everett Hale on Thursday, August 2.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji032_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji032_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"651\"\n               data-title=\"GREEN ACRE, AUGUST 1894\"\n               data-description=\"In New Discoveries a reference is made to another photo that Cora Stockham took at Green Acre. \u201cFrom the Portsmouth Daily Chronicle of August 9 one learns that Miss Stockham took another group picture (yet to be unearthed) in which Swamiji was present. This time it was in the Tent following a lecture given by Dr. Edward Everett Hale on Thursday, August 2.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji032_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"GREEN ACRE, AUGUST 1894\" alt=\"GREEN ACRE, AUGUST 1894\" width=\"275\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:275px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji032_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji032_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji033_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"We now have three photos of Swamiji taken at Green Acre under his pine. Sister Gargi poetically describes this photo: \u201cOne of these, which was among Isabelle McKindley\u2019s treasures, shows him standing with folded arms, his eyes looking as eyes look when the whole world is seen as permeated by Divinity.\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji033_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji033_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"652\"\n               data-title=\"GREEN ACRE, AUGUST 1894\"\n               data-description=\"We now have three photos of Swamiji taken at Green Acre under his pine. Sister Gargi poetically describes this photo: \u201cOne of these, which was among Isabelle McKindley\u2019s treasures, shows him standing with folded arms, his eyes looking as eyes look when the whole world is seen as permeated by Divinity.\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji033_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"GREEN ACRE, AUGUST 1894\" alt=\"GREEN ACRE, AUGUST 1894\" width=\"243\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:243px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji033_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji033_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji034_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This picture was taken during Swamiji\u2019s stay at Green Acre in 1894, but was reproduced in 1899 in a Watertown, Massachusetts newspaper article on Green Acre.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji034_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji034_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"653\"\n               data-title=\"GREEN ACRE, 1894\"\n               data-description=\"This picture was taken during Swamiji\u2019s stay at Green Acre in 1894, but was reproduced in 1899 in a Watertown, Massachusetts newspaper article on Green Acre.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji034_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"GREEN ACRE, 1894\" alt=\"GREEN ACRE, 1894\" width=\"350\" height=\"370\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:370px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji034_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji034_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji035_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Photos 35 to 37 were taken at the Prince Studio, 31 Union Square, New York. A report of Swamiji\u2019s first talk of a lecture series that he was to give in January of 1896 appeared in the New York World Telegram, January 6, 1896.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji035_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji035_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"654\"\n               data-title=\"NEW YORK, 1895 (probably between February and June)\"\n               data-description=\"Photos 35 to 37 were taken at the Prince Studio, 31 Union Square, New York. A report of Swamiji\u2019s first talk of a lecture series that he was to give in January of 1896 appeared in the New York World Telegram, January 6, 1896.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji035_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"NEW YORK, 1895 (probably between February and June)\" alt=\"NEW YORK, 1895 (probably between February and June)\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:233px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji035_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji035_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji036_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"In various publications this photo is often mistaken for Chicago, 1893. The background studio setting is the same as # 35.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji036_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji036_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"655\"\n               data-title=\"NEW YORK, 1895\"\n               data-description=\"In various publications this photo is often mistaken for Chicago, 1893. The background studio setting is the same as # 35.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji036_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"NEW YORK, 1895\" alt=\"NEW YORK, 1895\" width=\"254\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:254px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji036_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji036_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji037_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph has also been mistaken for Chicago, 1893. One reason for the misidentification of photo nos. 36 and 37 may be their resemblance to Swamiji\u2019s 1893 Chicago photographs. However in full reproductions of both of these photos, it is clear that they were taken in the same New York studio as # 35.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji037_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji037_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"656\"\n               data-title=\"NEW YORK, 1895\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph has also been mistaken for Chicago, 1893. One reason for the misidentification of photo nos. 36 and 37 may be their resemblance to Swamiji\u2019s 1893 Chicago photographs. However in full reproductions of both of these photos, it is clear that they were taken in the same New York studio as # 35.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji037_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"NEW YORK, 1895\" alt=\"NEW YORK, 1895\" width=\"236\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:236px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji037_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji037_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji038_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Swamiji\u2019s palm impression appeared in the book Language of the Hand by Cheiro. Cheiro was a famous palmist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. No doubt, one of Swamiji\u2019s wealthy friends in New York took him to Cheiro to have his palm read.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji038_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji038_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"657\"\n               data-title=\"NEW YORK, APRIL 6, 1895\"\n               data-description=\"Swamiji\u2019s palm impression appeared in the book Language of the Hand by Cheiro. Cheiro was a famous palmist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. No doubt, one of Swamiji\u2019s wealthy friends in New York took him to Cheiro to have his palm read.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji038_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"NEW YORK, APRIL 6, 1895\" alt=\"NEW YORK, APRIL 6, 1895\" width=\"278\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:278px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji038_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji038_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji039_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Swamiji used to take walks in the village of Thousand Island Park with his students, Sister Christine, and others.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji039_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji039_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"658\"\n               data-title=\"THOUSAND ISLAND PARK, JULY 1895\"\n               data-description=\"Swamiji used to take walks in the village of Thousand Island Park with his students, Sister Christine, and others.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji039_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"THOUSAND ISLAND PARK, JULY 1895\" alt=\"THOUSAND ISLAND PARK, JULY 1895\" width=\"199\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:199px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji039_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji039_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji040_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This is the &quot;head-and-shoulders&quot; print made at Thousand Island Park. The original print of this head-and-shoulders photo bears the name of the studio: Lamson &amp; Van Camp, 1000 Island Park, N.Y.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji040_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji040_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"659\"\n               data-title=\"THOUSAND ISLAND PARK, JULY 1895\"\n               data-description=\"This is the &quot;head-and-shoulders&quot; print made at Thousand Island Park. The original print of this head-and-shoulders photo bears the name of the studio: Lamson &amp; Van Camp, 1000 Island Park, N.Y.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji040_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"THOUSAND ISLAND PARK, JULY 1895\" alt=\"THOUSAND ISLAND PARK, JULY 1895\" width=\"275\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:275px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji040_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji040_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji041_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"The formal meeting between Swami Vivekananda and England--the beginning of what was to be a long and mutually satisfactory friendship--took place on the evening of Tuesday, October 22, in Prince\u2019s Hall, London. Fittingly, Swamiji chose for his subject \u2018Self-Knowledge,\u2019 the key, as he said in an interview, to his philosophy.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji041_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji041_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"660\"\n               data-title=\"LONDON, 1895\"\n               data-description=\"The formal meeting between Swami Vivekananda and England--the beginning of what was to be a long and mutually satisfactory friendship--took place on the evening of Tuesday, October 22, in Prince\u2019s Hall, London. Fittingly, Swamiji chose for his subject \u2018Self-Knowledge,\u2019 the key, as he said in an interview, to his philosophy.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji041_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"LONDON, 1895\" alt=\"LONDON, 1895\" width=\"243\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:243px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji041_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji041_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji042_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"That was the first time I saw the commanding figure of the great swami. He looked more like an Indian Prince than a sadhu (holy man). He had a bhagva patka (ochre colored turban) on his head. He electrified the audience by his grand and powerful oratory. The next day the report appeared in the papers that he was the next Indian after Keshab Chandra Sen, who had surprised the English audience by his magnificent oratory. He spoke on the Vedanta. His large eyes were rolling like anything, and there was such an animation about him that it passeth description. After the meeting was over, the swami took off his turban and put on a huge and deep Kashmiri cap looking like a big Persian hat.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji042_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji042_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"661\"\n               data-title=\"LONDON, 1895\"\n               data-description=\"That was the first time I saw the commanding figure of the great swami. He looked more like an Indian Prince than a sadhu (holy man). He had a bhagva patka (ochre colored turban) on his head. He electrified the audience by his grand and powerful oratory. The next day the report appeared in the papers that he was the next Indian after Keshab Chandra Sen, who had surprised the English audience by his magnificent oratory. He spoke on the Vedanta. His large eyes were rolling like anything, and there was such an animation about him that it passeth description. After the meeting was over, the swami took off his turban and put on a huge and deep Kashmiri cap looking like a big Persian hat.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji042_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"LONDON, 1895\" alt=\"LONDON, 1895\" width=\"268\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:268px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji042_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji042_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji043_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Attired in picturesque Oriental costume, this famous preacher last night addressed an audience at Prince\u2019s Hall on &quot;Self-Knowledge.&quot; He is an Indian Yogi, that is to say, one who has formally renounced the world and gives himself to study and devotion, and not, as he amusingly pointed out last night, one who did juggling tricks or flew through the air.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji043_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji043_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"662\"\n               data-title=\"LONDON, 1895\"\n               data-description=\"Attired in picturesque Oriental costume, this famous preacher last night addressed an audience at Prince\u2019s Hall on &quot;Self-Knowledge.&quot; He is an Indian Yogi, that is to say, one who has formally renounced the world and gives himself to study and devotion, and not, as he amusingly pointed out last night, one who did juggling tricks or flew through the air.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji043_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"LONDON, 1895\" alt=\"LONDON, 1895\" width=\"253\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:253px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji043_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji043_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji044_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"On my inquiring as to the significance, if any, of his name, the swami said: &quot;Of the name by which I am now known (Swami Vivekananda), the first word is descriptive of a sannyasin, or one who formally renounces the world, and the second is the title I assumed--as is customary with all sannyasins--on my renunciation of the world; it signifies, literally, the bliss of discrimination.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji044_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji044_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"663\"\n               data-title=\"LONDON, 1895\"\n               data-description=\"On my inquiring as to the significance, if any, of his name, the swami said: &quot;Of the name by which I am now known (Swami Vivekananda), the first word is descriptive of a sannyasin, or one who formally renounces the world, and the second is the title I assumed--as is customary with all sannyasins--on my renunciation of the world; it signifies, literally, the bliss of discrimination.&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji044_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"LONDON, 1895\" alt=\"LONDON, 1895\" width=\"265\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:265px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji044_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji044_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji045_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This remarkable person appeared in England in the autumn of 1895, and although he led a very retired life, [he] attracted numbers of people to his lodgings, and created everywhere a very deep impression. He seemed completely indifferent to money, and lived only for thought. He took quite simply anything that was given to him, and when nothing came he went without, yet he never seemed to lack anything.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji045_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji045_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"664\"\n               data-title=\"LONDON, 1895\"\n               data-description=\"This remarkable person appeared in England in the autumn of 1895, and although he led a very retired life, [he] attracted numbers of people to his lodgings, and created everywhere a very deep impression. He seemed completely indifferent to money, and lived only for thought. He took quite simply anything that was given to him, and when nothing came he went without, yet he never seemed to lack anything.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji045_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"LONDON, 1895\" alt=\"LONDON, 1895\" width=\"267\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:267px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji045_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji045_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji046_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Swamiji had a deep and subtle influence on the hearts and minds of the English people. It was such characteristics as these--his immense personal magnetism, his directness, his lucidity, his vision--which gave convincing force to his utterances and bound indissolubly to himself large groups of the very finest and the most devout disciples.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji046_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji046_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"665\"\n               data-title=\"LONDON, 1895\"\n               data-description=\"Swamiji had a deep and subtle influence on the hearts and minds of the English people. It was such characteristics as these--his immense personal magnetism, his directness, his lucidity, his vision--which gave convincing force to his utterances and bound indissolubly to himself large groups of the very finest and the most devout disciples.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji046_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"LONDON, 1895\" alt=\"LONDON, 1895\" width=\"275\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:275px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji046_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji046_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji047_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"He who has once listened to the great swami, is tempted to attend every lecture that he delivers. We cannot but own that the man possesses a great magnetic power or some power divine by which he even draws so many Londoners towards him.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji047_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji047_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"666\"\n               data-title=\"LONDON, 1896\"\n               data-description=\"He who has once listened to the great swami, is tempted to attend every lecture that he delivers. We cannot but own that the man possesses a great magnetic power or some power divine by which he even draws so many Londoners towards him.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji047_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"LONDON, 1896\" alt=\"LONDON, 1896\" width=\"277\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:277px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji047_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji047_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji048_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Miss Emmeline Souter, an admirer of Swamiji and a wealthy friend of the Reverend Hugh R. Haweis, arranged for some photographs to be made of Swamiji. In a letter written from Kolkata on May 5, 1897, to Margaret Noble (Sister Nivedita), Swamiji said: &quot;The only help I got in the world was in England, from Miss Souter and Mr. Sturdy.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji048_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji048_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"667\"\n               data-title=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\"\n               data-description=\"Miss Emmeline Souter, an admirer of Swamiji and a wealthy friend of the Reverend Hugh R. Haweis, arranged for some photographs to be made of Swamiji. In a letter written from Kolkata on May 5, 1897, to Margaret Noble (Sister Nivedita), Swamiji said: &quot;The only help I got in the world was in England, from Miss Souter and Mr. Sturdy.&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji048_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\" alt=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\" width=\"278\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:278px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji048_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji048_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji049_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"It was a novel sight, a memorable experience. His dark skin, his deep glowing eyes, even his costume, attracted and fascinated. Above all, eloquence acclaimed him, the eloquence of inspiration.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji049_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji049_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"668\"\n               data-title=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\"\n               data-description=\"It was a novel sight, a memorable experience. His dark skin, his deep glowing eyes, even his costume, attracted and fascinated. Above all, eloquence acclaimed him, the eloquence of inspiration.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji049_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\" alt=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\" width=\"240\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:240px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji049_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji049_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji050_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Swamiji seemed to rise to a state bordering on the divine--awesome and yet infinitely gracious. [Mahendra Nath Datta, one of Swamiji&#039;s younger brothers, remarked] &quot;Face shining, he had lost his human nature and seemed like someone from a higher plane, as if his previous self had vanished and in its place there stood a powerful being.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji050_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji050_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"669\"\n               data-title=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\"\n               data-description=\"Swamiji seemed to rise to a state bordering on the divine--awesome and yet infinitely gracious. [Mahendra Nath Datta, one of Swamiji&#039;s younger brothers, remarked] &quot;Face shining, he had lost his human nature and seemed like someone from a higher plane, as if his previous self had vanished and in its place there stood a powerful being.&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji050_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\" alt=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\" width=\"225\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:225px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji050_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji050_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji051_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"A charming story has come down to us that when Swami Abhedananda was to give his maiden speech in London in 1896, he said to Swamiji, who had just delivered his magnificent class-lecture, \u201cGod in Everything\u201d: \u201cYou know, Naren, I don\u2019t think I will speak this afternoon. Some other time. . . .\u201d And Swamiji, who was a good deal more strongly built than Swami Abhedananda, replied fiercely, \u201cKali, you must speak, or I will throw you out that window!\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji051_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji051_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"670\"\n               data-title=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\"\n               data-description=\"A charming story has come down to us that when Swami Abhedananda was to give his maiden speech in London in 1896, he said to Swamiji, who had just delivered his magnificent class-lecture, \u201cGod in Everything\u201d: \u201cYou know, Naren, I don\u2019t think I will speak this afternoon. Some other time. . . .\u201d And Swamiji, who was a good deal more strongly built than Swami Abhedananda, replied fiercely, \u201cKali, you must speak, or I will throw you out that window!\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji051_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\" alt=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\" width=\"277\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:277px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji051_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji051_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji052_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"\u201cYou see,\u201d Swamiji said, \u201cat night I go to my room and lie down. I keep quiet for a while, and then within me so much ananda arises that I cannot stay lying down. I see the Blissful Mother. Men, animals, the sky and earth--all are saturated with bliss. I cannot lie down any longer; so I get up and dance in the middle of the room. That bliss can no longer be confined within my heart. The whole world becomes filled with it, as it were.\u201d Even as he said this, Swamiji began to dance like a child for a little while. Then he said with affection to those who were present, \u201cBe happy, don&#039;t be depressed; the Mother is everywhere; all will be filled with bliss!\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji052_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji052_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"671\"\n               data-title=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\"\n               data-description=\"\u201cYou see,\u201d Swamiji said, \u201cat night I go to my room and lie down. I keep quiet for a while, and then within me so much ananda arises that I cannot stay lying down. I see the Blissful Mother. Men, animals, the sky and earth--all are saturated with bliss. I cannot lie down any longer; so I get up and dance in the middle of the room. That bliss can no longer be confined within my heart. The whole world becomes filled with it, as it were.\u201d Even as he said this, Swamiji began to dance like a child for a little while. Then he said with affection to those who were present, \u201cBe happy, don&#039;t be depressed; the Mother is everywhere; all will be filled with bliss!\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji052_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\" alt=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\" width=\"300\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:300px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji052_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji052_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji053_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"\u201cAnother day when sobersided Mr. Sturdy was not there, Swamiji and Swami Saradananda themselves tried (without much success) to ride a bicycle in front of the house. \u2018That day,\u2019 Mahendra, [who was with Swamiji in London at that time] recalled, \u2018he was his boyish self, all jokes, and in a sweet voice he sang a Bengali song.\u2019 \u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji053_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji053_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"672\"\n               data-title=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\"\n               data-description=\"\u201cAnother day when sobersided Mr. Sturdy was not there, Swamiji and Swami Saradananda themselves tried (without much success) to ride a bicycle in front of the house. \u2018That day,\u2019 Mahendra, [who was with Swamiji in London at that time] recalled, \u2018he was his boyish self, all jokes, and in a sweet voice he sang a Bengali song.\u2019 \u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji053_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\" alt=\"LONDON, DECEMBER 1896\" width=\"263\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:263px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji053_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji053_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji054_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Swamiji returned from the West for the first time in January 1897. It was a triumphal time of great rejoicing. He never expected such a tremendous reception from his countrymen. Arriving in Colombo on January 15, he left on the nineteenth for Kandy. Sometime during this four-day period three photographs of Swamiji were taken (nos. 54, 56, and 57). An early print of # 54 bears the name of the photographer &quot;A. W. Andree, Columbo.&quot; Since Swamiji was in Colombo such a short time, it seems reasonable that the other two photos were taken at the same sitting. His appearance also suggests this. In all three pictures the tail of his turban, which is draped over his left shoulder, is tucked under his chaddar.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji054_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji054_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"673\"\n               data-title=\"COLOMBO, JANUARY 1897\"\n               data-description=\"Swamiji returned from the West for the first time in January 1897. It was a triumphal time of great rejoicing. He never expected such a tremendous reception from his countrymen. Arriving in Colombo on January 15, he left on the nineteenth for Kandy. Sometime during this four-day period three photographs of Swamiji were taken (nos. 54, 56, and 57). An early print of # 54 bears the name of the photographer &quot;A. W. Andree, Columbo.&quot; Since Swamiji was in Colombo such a short time, it seems reasonable that the other two photos were taken at the same sitting. His appearance also suggests this. In all three pictures the tail of his turban, which is draped over his left shoulder, is tucked under his chaddar.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji054_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"COLOMBO, JANUARY 1897\" alt=\"COLOMBO, JANUARY 1897\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:250px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji054_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji054_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji055_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Crop of photograph 54, See Photograph 54 for description.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji055_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji055_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"674\"\n               data-title=\"COLOMBO, JANUARY 1897\"\n               data-description=\"Crop of photograph 54, See Photograph 54 for description.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji055_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"COLOMBO, JANUARY 1897\" alt=\"COLOMBO, JANUARY 1897\" width=\"293\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:293px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji055_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji055_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji056_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This pose of Swamiji is reminiscent of the famous Chicago pose of 1893. J. J. Goodwin, one of Swamiji\u2019s beloved English disciples who was with him at the time, wrote a letter on January 22, 1897, to Mrs. Ole Bull in which he described their reception in Colombo. On Sunday, January 17, Swamiji and his party visited a local temple in the Tamil quarter of the city. In his elaborate account of the honor accorded Swamiji, Goodwin makes an interesting comment: \u201cThe Seviers and I, but particularly myself, have come in for an enormous amount of attention. We are always sprinkled with rose water and given sandalwood. One man wanted me to be photographed with the swami so that he might worship me with Swamiji.\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji056_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji056_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"675\"\n               data-title=\"COLOMBO, JANUARY 1897\"\n               data-description=\"This pose of Swamiji is reminiscent of the famous Chicago pose of 1893. J. J. Goodwin, one of Swamiji\u2019s beloved English disciples who was with him at the time, wrote a letter on January 22, 1897, to Mrs. Ole Bull in which he described their reception in Colombo. On Sunday, January 17, Swamiji and his party visited a local temple in the Tamil quarter of the city. In his elaborate account of the honor accorded Swamiji, Goodwin makes an interesting comment: \u201cThe Seviers and I, but particularly myself, have come in for an enormous amount of attention. We are always sprinkled with rose water and given sandalwood. One man wanted me to be photographed with the swami so that he might worship me with Swamiji.\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji056_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"COLOMBO, JANUARY 1897\" alt=\"COLOMBO, JANUARY 1897\" width=\"207\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:207px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji056_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji056_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji057_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"An excerpt from a Colombo local paper, the Ceylon Independent, describes how Swamiji was received when he arrived there: \u201cAs the day was closing and the night approached, when the auspicious and sacred hour of \u2018sandhya\u2019 noted by the Hindu shastras as the best suited for devotion came round as the harbinger of the coming great events of the day, the sage of noble figure, of sedate countenance with large, luminous eyes, arrived, dressed in the orange garb of a sannyasin, accompanied by the Swami Niranjanananda and others. . . . No words can describe the feelings of the vast masses and their expressions of love, when they saw the steam launch bearing the sage, steaming towards the jetty.\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji057_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji057_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"676\"\n               data-title=\"COLOMBO, JANUARY 1897\"\n               data-description=\"An excerpt from a Colombo local paper, the Ceylon Independent, describes how Swamiji was received when he arrived there: \u201cAs the day was closing and the night approached, when the auspicious and sacred hour of \u2018sandhya\u2019 noted by the Hindu shastras as the best suited for devotion came round as the harbinger of the coming great events of the day, the sage of noble figure, of sedate countenance with large, luminous eyes, arrived, dressed in the orange garb of a sannyasin, accompanied by the Swami Niranjanananda and others. . . . No words can describe the feelings of the vast masses and their expressions of love, when they saw the steam launch bearing the sage, steaming towards the jetty.\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji057_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"COLOMBO, JANUARY 1897\" alt=\"COLOMBO, JANUARY 1897\" width=\"222\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:222px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji057_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji057_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji058_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Herewith, we gladly send the photo-type of Swami Vivekananda. It is the best likeness we have been able to send to our subscribers. It is from a half-tone block prepared for us by Messrs. S. K. Lawton and Co., of Jaffna, Ceylon, from a photograph specially taken here by Mr. T. G. Appavan Mudaliar, No. 3, Veeraraghava Mudali Street, Triplicane, Madras.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji058_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji058_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"677\"\n               data-title=\"CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 1897\"\n               data-description=\"Herewith, we gladly send the photo-type of Swami Vivekananda. It is the best likeness we have been able to send to our subscribers. It is from a half-tone block prepared for us by Messrs. S. K. Lawton and Co., of Jaffna, Ceylon, from a photograph specially taken here by Mr. T. G. Appavan Mudaliar, No. 3, Veeraraghava Mudali Street, Triplicane, Madras.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji058_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 1897\" alt=\"CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 1897\" width=\"272\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:272px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji058_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji058_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji059_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"I enjoyed the infinite pleasure and privilege of once more looking at his wonderful eyes direct, recalling to my recollection all he had achieved and mentally running over what his future career might be as the future minister of the Vedic religion.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji059_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji059_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"678\"\n               data-title=\"CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 1897\"\n               data-description=\"I enjoyed the infinite pleasure and privilege of once more looking at his wonderful eyes direct, recalling to my recollection all he had achieved and mentally running over what his future career might be as the future minister of the Vedic religion.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji059_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 1897\" alt=\"CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 1897\" width=\"275\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:275px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji059_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji059_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji060_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photo appears to have been taken a few days after the two single ones (nos. 58, 59) of Swamiji. In all respects his appearance is the same, except that his shaven head shows signs of a few days\u2019 growth. It seems quite possible that Mr. Mudaliar took this group photo as well. One can well imagine that he could have come to Castle Kernan where Swamiji was staying. It seems unlikely that so many people, especially the local devotees, would go to a studio to have an official photograph taken.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji060_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji060_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"679\"\n               data-title=\"CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 1897\"\n               data-description=\"This photo appears to have been taken a few days after the two single ones (nos. 58, 59) of Swamiji. In all respects his appearance is the same, except that his shaven head shows signs of a few days\u2019 growth. It seems quite possible that Mr. Mudaliar took this group photo as well. One can well imagine that he could have come to Castle Kernan where Swamiji was staying. It seems unlikely that so many people, especially the local devotees, would go to a studio to have an official photograph taken.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji060_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 1897\" alt=\"CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 1897\" width=\"350\" height=\"256\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:256px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji060_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji060_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji061_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Crop from previous group photo.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji061_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji061_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"680\"\n               data-title=\"CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 1897\"\n               data-description=\"Crop from previous group photo.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji061_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 1897\" alt=\"CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 1897\" width=\"243\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:243px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji061_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji061_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji062_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph was taken at a reception in Kolkata, February 28, 1897. (The \u201cx\u201d identifies Swamiji.)\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji062_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji062_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"681\"\n               data-title=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 28, 1897\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph was taken at a reception in Kolkata, February 28, 1897. (The \u201cx\u201d identifies Swamiji.)\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji062_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 28, 1897\" alt=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 28, 1897\" width=\"350\" height=\"261\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:261px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji062_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji062_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji063_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Crop of photograph 62.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji063_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji063_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"682\"\n               data-title=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 28, 1897\"\n               data-description=\"Crop of photograph 62.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji063_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 28, 1897\" alt=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 28, 1897\" width=\"350\" height=\"244\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:244px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji063_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji063_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji064_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This austere and somewhat awesome photograph of Swamiji was taken at the Calcutta Art Studio, 185 Bow Bazar Street in Kolkata. Early prints of this photograph, some of which may well be originals, have the above information stamped on the back. This photo is usually labeled as \u201cprobably Gopal Lal Seal\u2019s.\u201d However, from all appearances this photo, as well as the next (# 65), was taken in the same studio on the same day. The negative of photograph # 65 includes the same studio\u2019s logo. The speculation that # 64 was taken at Gopal Lal Seal\u2019s may have arisen from Swamiji\u2019s custom of spending his days with his disciples and friends at that devotee\u2019s riverside garden home in Cossipore during this period.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji064_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji064_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"683\"\n               data-title=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 1897\"\n               data-description=\"This austere and somewhat awesome photograph of Swamiji was taken at the Calcutta Art Studio, 185 Bow Bazar Street in Kolkata. Early prints of this photograph, some of which may well be originals, have the above information stamped on the back. This photo is usually labeled as \u201cprobably Gopal Lal Seal\u2019s.\u201d However, from all appearances this photo, as well as the next (# 65), was taken in the same studio on the same day. The negative of photograph # 65 includes the same studio\u2019s logo. The speculation that # 64 was taken at Gopal Lal Seal\u2019s may have arisen from Swamiji\u2019s custom of spending his days with his disciples and friends at that devotee\u2019s riverside garden home in Cossipore during this period.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji064_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 1897\" alt=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 1897\" width=\"279\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:279px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji064_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji064_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji065_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph also bears the same photographic studio\u2019s name, i.e., the Calcutta Art Studio. As in # 64, except for the turban, Swamiji is without a shirt and his cloth is draped over his left shoulder.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji065_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji065_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"684\"\n               data-title=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 1897\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph also bears the same photographic studio\u2019s name, i.e., the Calcutta Art Studio. As in # 64, except for the turban, Swamiji is without a shirt and his cloth is draped over his left shoulder.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji065_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 1897\" alt=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 1897\" width=\"263\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:263px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji065_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji065_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji066_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph has been published as London, 1896. However, from all appearances it certainly seems to have been taken in Kolkata in 1897. It is said that having reached his motherland, Swamiji shaved his head during his nine-day stay in Chennai. The photographs of this period testify to this fact. It is obvious, even in this photo where Swamiji is pictured with a turban on, that he is shavenheaded. In this photograph (66) Swamiji looks the same as he does in the following group photo (67), minus the turban. Several notices appeared in the Indian newspapers about both photographs, 66 and 67.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji066_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji066_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"685\"\n               data-title=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 1897\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph has been published as London, 1896. However, from all appearances it certainly seems to have been taken in Kolkata in 1897. It is said that having reached his motherland, Swamiji shaved his head during his nine-day stay in Chennai. The photographs of this period testify to this fact. It is obvious, even in this photo where Swamiji is pictured with a turban on, that he is shavenheaded. In this photograph (66) Swamiji looks the same as he does in the following group photo (67), minus the turban. Several notices appeared in the Indian newspapers about both photographs, 66 and 67.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji066_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 1897\" alt=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 1897\" width=\"259\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:259px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji066_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji066_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji067_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"In From Holy Wanderings to the Service of God in Man, Swami Akhandananda said: Afterwards, at Gopal Lal Seal\u2019s garden house in Cossipore, Swamiji had a group photograph taken with Mother Sevier, some of his gurubhais on two sides of her and some devotees such as Alasinga and G. G. seated on chairs, and himself standing behind Mother Sevier. In that photo Dr. Turnbull can be seen standing. From Swami Akhandananda\u2019s remark it is clear that Swamiji had the photographer from The Art Workers\u2019 League come to Gopal Lal Seal\u2019s garden house to take the photo.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji067_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji067_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"686\"\n               data-title=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 1897 - At Gopal Lal Seal\u2019s Garden House\"\n               data-description=\"In From Holy Wanderings to the Service of God in Man, Swami Akhandananda said: Afterwards, at Gopal Lal Seal\u2019s garden house in Cossipore, Swamiji had a group photograph taken with Mother Sevier, some of his gurubhais on two sides of her and some devotees such as Alasinga and G. G. seated on chairs, and himself standing behind Mother Sevier. In that photo Dr. Turnbull can be seen standing. From Swami Akhandananda\u2019s remark it is clear that Swamiji had the photographer from The Art Workers\u2019 League come to Gopal Lal Seal\u2019s garden house to take the photo.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji067_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 1897 - At Gopal Lal Seal\u2019s Garden House\" alt=\"KOLKATA, FEBRUARY 1897 - At Gopal Lal Seal\u2019s Garden House\" width=\"350\" height=\"245\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:245px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji067_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji067_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji068_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph has often been dated 1898. However it appears to have been taken during Swamiji\u2019s first visit to Kashmir in 1897. In a letter to Swami Brahmananda from Amritsar dated September 2, 1897, Swamiji mentioned that his party which consisted of Niranjan (Swami Niranjanananda), Latu, Krishnalal (Swami Dhirananda), Dinanath, Gupta (Swami Sadananda), and Achyut were accompanying him to Kashmir. Krishnalal was the familiar name of Swami Dhirananda. There is no mention of Swami Dhirananda being in the party that visited Kashmir in 1898.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji068_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji068_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"687\"\n               data-title=\"KASHMIR, 1897\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph has often been dated 1898. However it appears to have been taken during Swamiji\u2019s first visit to Kashmir in 1897. In a letter to Swami Brahmananda from Amritsar dated September 2, 1897, Swamiji mentioned that his party which consisted of Niranjan (Swami Niranjanananda), Latu, Krishnalal (Swami Dhirananda), Dinanath, Gupta (Swami Sadananda), and Achyut were accompanying him to Kashmir. Krishnalal was the familiar name of Swami Dhirananda. There is no mention of Swami Dhirananda being in the party that visited Kashmir in 1898.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji068_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"KASHMIR, 1897\" alt=\"KASHMIR, 1897\" width=\"350\" height=\"254\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:254px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji068_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji068_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji069_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Crop of Swamiji from previous Kashmir group.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji069_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji069_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"688\"\n               data-title=\"KASHMIR, 1897\"\n               data-description=\"Crop of Swamiji from previous Kashmir group.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji069_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"KASHMIR, 1897\" alt=\"KASHMIR, 1897\" width=\"275\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:275px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji069_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji069_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji070_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Swamiji received the terrible news of Goodwin\u2019s death while he was staying at Almora. Apparently he had become impatient and restless to leave the place where he had received this sad news. According to the Life, \u201cIt was decided to spend some time in Kashmir. On June l1, 1898, therefore, with the women disciples who had come with him from Calcutta, he left Almora for Kashmir.\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji070_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji070_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"689\"\n               data-title=\"KASHMIR, 1898--In a Houseboat\"\n               data-description=\"Swamiji received the terrible news of Goodwin\u2019s death while he was staying at Almora. Apparently he had become impatient and restless to leave the place where he had received this sad news. According to the Life, \u201cIt was decided to spend some time in Kashmir. On June l1, 1898, therefore, with the women disciples who had come with him from Calcutta, he left Almora for Kashmir.\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji070_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"KASHMIR, 1898--In a Houseboat\" alt=\"KASHMIR, 1898--In a Houseboat\" width=\"350\" height=\"241\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:241px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji070_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji070_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji071_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Left to right: Josephine MacLeod, Mrs. Ole Bull (sitting), Swami Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji071_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji071_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"690\"\n               data-title=\"KASHMIR, 1898\"\n               data-description=\"Left to right: Josephine MacLeod, Mrs. Ole Bull (sitting), Swami Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji071_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"KASHMIR, 1898\" alt=\"KASHMIR, 1898\" width=\"350\" height=\"260\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:260px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji071_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji071_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji072_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This picture has often been misidentified as &quot;Annisquam&quot; and as the first photo taken of Swamiji in the United States in August of 1893. However, in some correspondence between Mrs. Gertrude Emerson Sen, wife of Sri Boshi Sen, the famous scientist of Almora, and Swami Ashokananda, she wrote that this photo (as well as no. 73) were taken in Kashmir.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji072_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji072_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"691\"\n               data-title=\"KASHMIR, 1898\"\n               data-description=\"This picture has often been misidentified as &quot;Annisquam&quot; and as the first photo taken of Swamiji in the United States in August of 1893. However, in some correspondence between Mrs. Gertrude Emerson Sen, wife of Sri Boshi Sen, the famous scientist of Almora, and Swami Ashokananda, she wrote that this photo (as well as no. 73) were taken in Kashmir.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji072_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"KASHMIR, 1898\" alt=\"KASHMIR, 1898\" width=\"272\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:272px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji072_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji072_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji073_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Sister Nivedita relates that while in Kashmir, one morning &quot;when they woke up, they found themselves in the midst of the beautiful valley, surrounded by the snow-peaks of the Himalayas on the horizon. They took a long walk in the morning across fields and came to a huge chenar tree in the middle of a pasture. The tree provided ample shade and the Swami fantasized on how it could be used as a dwelling-place for a hermit. Then he talked about the subject to which he always seemed to gravitate: meditation.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji073_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji073_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"692\"\n               data-title=\"KASHMIR, 1898\"\n               data-description=\"Sister Nivedita relates that while in Kashmir, one morning &quot;when they woke up, they found themselves in the midst of the beautiful valley, surrounded by the snow-peaks of the Himalayas on the horizon. They took a long walk in the morning across fields and came to a huge chenar tree in the middle of a pasture. The tree provided ample shade and the Swami fantasized on how it could be used as a dwelling-place for a hermit. Then he talked about the subject to which he always seemed to gravitate: meditation.&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji073_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"KASHMIR, 1898\" alt=\"KASHMIR, 1898\" width=\"350\" height=\"269\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:269px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji073_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji073_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji074_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Standing (left to right): Devendranath Mazumdar, Swami Nirmalananda, Swami Virajananda, Swami Shivananda, Swami Turiyananda, Swami Akhandananda, Swami Vijnanananda, Swami Saradananda, Swami Satchidananda, a friend of Sri U. N. Dev, *Mahendranath Datta [alternative identification for &quot;a friend of Sri U. N. Dev &quot;], Sri U. N. Dev.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji074_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji074_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"693\"\n               data-title=\"BELUR MATH, JUNE 19, 1899\"\n               data-description=\"Standing (left to right): Devendranath Mazumdar, Swami Nirmalananda, Swami Virajananda, Swami Shivananda, Swami Turiyananda, Swami Akhandananda, Swami Vijnanananda, Swami Saradananda, Swami Satchidananda, a friend of Sri U. N. Dev, *Mahendranath Datta [alternative identification for &quot;a friend of Sri U. N. Dev &quot;], Sri U. N. Dev.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji074_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"BELUR MATH, JUNE 19, 1899\" alt=\"BELUR MATH, JUNE 19, 1899\" width=\"350\" height=\"247\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:247px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji074_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji074_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji075_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photo was also taken at the Math on the same day as photograph no. 74.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji075_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji075_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"694\"\n               data-title=\"BELUR MATH, JUNE 19, 1899\"\n               data-description=\"This photo was also taken at the Math on the same day as photograph no. 74.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji075_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"BELUR MATH, JUNE 19, 1899\" alt=\"BELUR MATH, JUNE 19, 1899\" width=\"350\" height=\"242\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:242px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji075_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji075_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji076_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"On 19 June, a day before sailing, photographs were taken, singly of the swami and, in group [nos.74 and 75], of him and the Brotherhood. One can easily understand from these pictures how deplorable was the state of Swamiji\u2019s health and why, as we are told, his friends and disciples, who went to receive him at his landing in London, were shocked at the sight of him.\r\nThis appears to be the photo of Swamiji taken \u201csingly\u201d on the occasion of the farewell gathering held in honor of him and Swami Turiyananda. Swamiji certainly looks unwell in this photo, as well as the following one, no. 77.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji076_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji076_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"695\"\n               data-title=\"BELUR MATH, JUNE 19, 1899\"\n               data-description=\"On 19 June, a day before sailing, photographs were taken, singly of the swami and, in group [nos.74 and 75], of him and the Brotherhood. One can easily understand from these pictures how deplorable was the state of Swamiji\u2019s health and why, as we are told, his friends and disciples, who went to receive him at his landing in London, were shocked at the sight of him.\r\nThis appears to be the photo of Swamiji taken \u201csingly\u201d on the occasion of the farewell gathering held in honor of him and Swami Turiyananda. Swamiji certainly looks unwell in this photo, as well as the following one, no. 77.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji076_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"BELUR MATH, JUNE 19, 1899\" alt=\"BELUR MATH, JUNE 19, 1899\" width=\"244\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:244px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji076_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji076_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji077_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photo was taken at 8 Bosepara Lane in Calcutta at the rented house of Sri Boshi Sen&#039;s family. The Holy Mother was living in this house at that time. Although this photograph is published as having been taken in 1897, from the appearance of Swamiji, Swamis Turiyananda, Shivananda, and Trigunatita, it seems to have been taken in 1899 around the same time as the previous three photos, nos. 74 to 76. It is quite possible that it was taken on June 20, the day that Swamiji and Swami Turiyananda sailed for the West with Sister Nivedita and Swami Saradananda&#039;s brother. According to the Life, &quot;On the day of departure the Holy Mother gave a sumptuous feast to the swami, Swami Turiyananda, and all her sannyasi children of the Math, at her Calcutta house.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji077_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji077_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"696\"\n               data-title=\"CALCUTTA, (JUNE 20?), 1899\"\n               data-description=\"This photo was taken at 8 Bosepara Lane in Calcutta at the rented house of Sri Boshi Sen&#039;s family. The Holy Mother was living in this house at that time. Although this photograph is published as having been taken in 1897, from the appearance of Swamiji, Swamis Turiyananda, Shivananda, and Trigunatita, it seems to have been taken in 1899 around the same time as the previous three photos, nos. 74 to 76. It is quite possible that it was taken on June 20, the day that Swamiji and Swami Turiyananda sailed for the West with Sister Nivedita and Swami Saradananda&#039;s brother. According to the Life, &quot;On the day of departure the Holy Mother gave a sumptuous feast to the swami, Swami Turiyananda, and all her sannyasi children of the Math, at her Calcutta house.&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji077_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CALCUTTA, (JUNE 20?), 1899\" alt=\"CALCUTTA, (JUNE 20?), 1899\" width=\"350\" height=\"261\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:261px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji077_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji077_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji078_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Crop of Swamiji from the Bosepara Lane group.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji078_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji078_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"697\"\n               data-title=\"KOLKATA, (JUNE 20?), 1899\"\n               data-description=\"Crop of Swamiji from the Bosepara Lane group.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji078_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"KOLKATA, (JUNE 20?), 1899\" alt=\"KOLKATA, (JUNE 20?), 1899\" width=\"242\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:242px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji078_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji078_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji079_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Sitting (left to right): Swami Vivekananda, Alberta Sturges, Besse Leggett (hidden), Josephine MacLeod, friend of Alberta&#039;s [sometimes mistaken for Sister Nivedita].\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji079_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji079_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"698\"\n               data-title=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 1899\"\n               data-description=\"Sitting (left to right): Swami Vivekananda, Alberta Sturges, Besse Leggett (hidden), Josephine MacLeod, friend of Alberta&#039;s [sometimes mistaken for Sister Nivedita].\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji079_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 1899\" alt=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 1899\" width=\"350\" height=\"338\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:338px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji079_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji079_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji080_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph was taken of the same people on the same day, at the same place (as in no.79. Here &quot;one sees Swamiji standing and looking unwell and Alberta with her face in her hands, shielding her eyes from the afternoon sun.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji080_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji080_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"699\"\n               data-title=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 1899\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph was taken of the same people on the same day, at the same place (as in no.79. Here &quot;one sees Swamiji standing and looking unwell and Alberta with her face in her hands, shielding her eyes from the afternoon sun.&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji080_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 1899\" alt=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 1899\" width=\"350\" height=\"209\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:209px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji080_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji080_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji081_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This is a photograph of a pastel drawing of Swamiji au Bedouin by Maud Stumm, a young artist who was one of the Leggett\u2019s house guests during the &quot;great summer.&quot; &quot;On a hot summer day Miss Stumm and others asked Swamiji to show how he wound his turban--a demonstration he had given perhaps countless times in the West for fascinated children and grownups alike. Now at Ridgely Manor he wound and unwound the length of silk, disclosing the mysteries not only of his own turban but of other kinds as well.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji081_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji081_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"700\"\n               data-title=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, 1899\"\n               data-description=\"This is a photograph of a pastel drawing of Swamiji au Bedouin by Maud Stumm, a young artist who was one of the Leggett\u2019s house guests during the &quot;great summer.&quot; &quot;On a hot summer day Miss Stumm and others asked Swamiji to show how he wound his turban--a demonstration he had given perhaps countless times in the West for fascinated children and grownups alike. Now at Ridgely Manor he wound and unwound the length of silk, disclosing the mysteries not only of his own turban but of other kinds as well.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji081_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, 1899\" alt=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, 1899\" width=\"244\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:244px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji081_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji081_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji082_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"[The photo of] Swami Vivekananda and Sara Bull at Green Acre is a mystery for me. Some have suggested that it is at her cottage at Green Acre, however the cottage was not built until 1897 and Vivekananda did not visit after 1896. One might think that it is on the porch of the [Green Acre] Inn but the railing finials are not of that design! I do not believe it was taken at Green Acre. Joseph Frost, of Eliot, has in his possession a glass slide taken by his deceased relative Ralph S. Bartlett on which he has written &quot;Mrs. Ole Bull and Swami Vivekananda at home of Francis H. Leggett, Stoneridge, NY--October 1899.&quot; It appears to be the same photograph.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji082_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji082_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"701\"\n               data-title=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 1899\"\n               data-description=\"[The photo of] Swami Vivekananda and Sara Bull at Green Acre is a mystery for me. Some have suggested that it is at her cottage at Green Acre, however the cottage was not built until 1897 and Vivekananda did not visit after 1896. One might think that it is on the porch of the [Green Acre] Inn but the railing finials are not of that design! I do not believe it was taken at Green Acre. Joseph Frost, of Eliot, has in his possession a glass slide taken by his deceased relative Ralph S. Bartlett on which he has written &quot;Mrs. Ole Bull and Swami Vivekananda at home of Francis H. Leggett, Stoneridge, NY--October 1899.&quot; It appears to be the same photograph.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji082_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 1899\" alt=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 1899\" width=\"350\" height=\"347\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:347px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji082_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji082_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji083_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photograph was previously thought to have been taken in Kashmir in 1898 perhaps because of Swamiji\u2019s Kashmiri dress, but it has been identified in Pravrajika Prabuddhaprana\u2019s publication Saint Sara: The Life of Sara Chapman Bull, The American Mother of Swami Vivekananda, as \u201cSwami Vivekananda at Stoneridge [Ridgely Manor], New York, photographed by Ralph S. Bartlett in mid-October 1899.\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji083_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji083_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"702\"\n               data-title=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 1899\"\n               data-description=\"This photograph was previously thought to have been taken in Kashmir in 1898 perhaps because of Swamiji\u2019s Kashmiri dress, but it has been identified in Pravrajika Prabuddhaprana\u2019s publication Saint Sara: The Life of Sara Chapman Bull, The American Mother of Swami Vivekananda, as \u201cSwami Vivekananda at Stoneridge [Ridgely Manor], New York, photographed by Ralph S. Bartlett in mid-October 1899.\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji083_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 1899\" alt=\"RIDGELY MANOR, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 1899\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji083_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji083_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji084_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"&quot;&#039;Tomorrow if it be fine,&#039; Miss MacLeod had written on December 15 to Sister Nivedita, &#039;Mr. &amp; Mrs. Baumgardt, Swami, &amp; I go to Mount Lowe where there is a fine observatory, and we shall have a rare sight looking through the telescope--&amp; do some fine excursions in the neighborhood, returning home here about 5 on Sunday afternoon.&#039; As it had happened December 16 had not been fine, and the outing had been postponed. It was not until the second weekend in January that Swamiji made the trip up Mount Lowe, a high peak of the San Gabriel Range that rose just northeast of Pasadena.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji084_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji084_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"703\"\n               data-title=\"MOUNT LOWE, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\"\n               data-description=\"&quot;&#039;Tomorrow if it be fine,&#039; Miss MacLeod had written on December 15 to Sister Nivedita, &#039;Mr. &amp; Mrs. Baumgardt, Swami, &amp; I go to Mount Lowe where there is a fine observatory, and we shall have a rare sight looking through the telescope--&amp; do some fine excursions in the neighborhood, returning home here about 5 on Sunday afternoon.&#039; As it had happened December 16 had not been fine, and the outing had been postponed. It was not until the second weekend in January that Swamiji made the trip up Mount Lowe, a high peak of the San Gabriel Range that rose just northeast of Pasadena.&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji084_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"MOUNT LOWE, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" alt=\"MOUNT LOWE, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" width=\"275\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:275px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji084_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji084_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji085_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"While in South Pasadena Swamiji stayed at the home of the Mead sisters--Mrs. Alice Hansbrough, Mrs. Carrie Wyckoff, and Miss Helen Mead. The other members of the household were Mr. Mead (the sisters&#039; father), his two grandchildren--Mrs. Hansbrough&#039;s daughter, Dorothy, and Mrs. Wyckoff &#039;s son, Ralph, and the housekeeper, Miss Fairbanks. &quot;How so many people could fit comfortably into so small a house is a marvel. But even with guests, they managed with apparent ease.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji085_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji085_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"704\"\n               data-title=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\"\n               data-description=\"While in South Pasadena Swamiji stayed at the home of the Mead sisters--Mrs. Alice Hansbrough, Mrs. Carrie Wyckoff, and Miss Helen Mead. The other members of the household were Mr. Mead (the sisters&#039; father), his two grandchildren--Mrs. Hansbrough&#039;s daughter, Dorothy, and Mrs. Wyckoff &#039;s son, Ralph, and the housekeeper, Miss Fairbanks. &quot;How so many people could fit comfortably into so small a house is a marvel. But even with guests, they managed with apparent ease.&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji085_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" alt=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" width=\"267\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:267px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji085_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji085_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji086_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"According to the Vedanta Society of Southern California, this photo of Swamiji standing with an umbrella was taken on Monterey Road, South Pasadena. The tree and the house in back of Swamiji are no longer standing.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji086_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji086_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"705\"\n               data-title=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\"\n               data-description=\"According to the Vedanta Society of Southern California, this photo of Swamiji standing with an umbrella was taken on Monterey Road, South Pasadena. The tree and the house in back of Swamiji are no longer standing.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji086_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" alt=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" width=\"263\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:263px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji086_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji086_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji087_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Swami Vivekananda in center; on his right, a Mrs. Bruce; behind him, Carrie Wyckoff; on his left, Alice Hansbrough. The others are unknown. In Vivekananda: A Biography in Pictures, some of the other picnickers are identified. As the source of these identifications cannot be verified, these people have not been listed.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji087_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji087_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"706\"\n               data-title=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\"\n               data-description=\"Swami Vivekananda in center; on his right, a Mrs. Bruce; behind him, Carrie Wyckoff; on his left, Alice Hansbrough. The others are unknown. In Vivekananda: A Biography in Pictures, some of the other picnickers are identified. As the source of these identifications cannot be verified, these people have not been listed.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji087_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" alt=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" width=\"350\" height=\"347\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:347px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji087_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji087_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji088_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"In her reminiscences about Swamiji&#039;s stay at their house, Mrs. Hansbrough mentioned that Swamiji would come to the breakfast table with his hair tousled. Although he was very careful about his dress when he went out, while at home he was careless about his appearance. He would jokingly remark: &quot;Why should I be careful of my dress at home? I don&#039;t want to get married!&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji088_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji088_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"707\"\n               data-title=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\"\n               data-description=\"In her reminiscences about Swamiji&#039;s stay at their house, Mrs. Hansbrough mentioned that Swamiji would come to the breakfast table with his hair tousled. Although he was very careful about his dress when he went out, while at home he was careless about his appearance. He would jokingly remark: &quot;Why should I be careful of my dress at home? I don&#039;t want to get married!&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji088_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" alt=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" width=\"247\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:247px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji088_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji088_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji089_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"&quot;There are no known records of Swamiji&#039;s talks and informal classes on this sunny hilltop. Yet from a snatch of conversation that Mrs. Hansbrough remembered, it is clear that he was seeing all the world--its good and its evil alike--as a divine play, all supremely Good. On one of the picnics a young woman, a Christian Scientist, put forth the belief that one should teach people to be good. Swamiji smiled and waved his hand to indicate the trees and the countryside, &#039;Why should I desire to be good ?&#039; he asked. &#039;All this is His handiwork. Shall I apologize for His handiwork? If you want to reform John Doe, go and live with him; don&#039;t try to reform him. If you have any of the Divine Fire, he will catch it.&#039;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji089_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji089_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"708\"\n               data-title=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\"\n               data-description=\"&quot;There are no known records of Swamiji&#039;s talks and informal classes on this sunny hilltop. Yet from a snatch of conversation that Mrs. Hansbrough remembered, it is clear that he was seeing all the world--its good and its evil alike--as a divine play, all supremely Good. On one of the picnics a young woman, a Christian Scientist, put forth the belief that one should teach people to be good. Swamiji smiled and waved his hand to indicate the trees and the countryside, &#039;Why should I desire to be good ?&#039; he asked. &#039;All this is His handiwork. Shall I apologize for His handiwork? If you want to reform John Doe, go and live with him; don&#039;t try to reform him. If you have any of the Divine Fire, he will catch it.&#039;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji089_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" alt=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" width=\"350\" height=\"329\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:329px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji089_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji089_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji090_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Mrs. Hansbrough said of Swamiji: &quot;He always looked bright, especially when he was particularly interested in something. Then his eyes actually sparkled.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji090_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji090_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"709\"\n               data-title=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\"\n               data-description=\"Mrs. Hansbrough said of Swamiji: &quot;He always looked bright, especially when he was particularly interested in something. Then his eyes actually sparkled.&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji090_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" alt=\"SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 1900\" width=\"242\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:242px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji090_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji090_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji091_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Two photographs [91 &amp; 92] of Swami Vivekananda were discovered at the Vedanta Society of Southern California&#039;s Hollywood center. This photo was published in the June 2002 issue of Vedanta Voices, the southern California newsletter. The other photo, no. 92, was published in the July 2002 issue. It seems that over the last seventy years many photographs and other materials have accumulated in the Society&#039;s archives. The archive committee is in the process of sorting through the collection.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji091_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji091_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"710\"\n               data-title=\"CALIFORNIA, 1900\"\n               data-description=\"Two photographs [91 &amp; 92] of Swami Vivekananda were discovered at the Vedanta Society of Southern California&#039;s Hollywood center. This photo was published in the June 2002 issue of Vedanta Voices, the southern California newsletter. The other photo, no. 92, was published in the July 2002 issue. It seems that over the last seventy years many photographs and other materials have accumulated in the Society&#039;s archives. The archive committee is in the process of sorting through the collection.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji091_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CALIFORNIA, 1900\" alt=\"CALIFORNIA, 1900\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:232px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji091_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji091_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji092_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Ida Ansell recalled as she was leaving Camp Taylor in northern California: &quot;He [Swamiji] took me up the steep steps to the railroad track and flagged the train for me. There was no station and the train stopped only on signal. Swamiji&#039;s carriage was magnificent. His eyes were always turned skyward, never down. Someone said of him that he never saw anything lower than a telegraph pole. When the engine passed us, as the train slowed down, I heard the fireman say to the engineer, &#039;Hellow! Who is this sky pilot?&#039; I had never heard the expression and was puzzled at first as to its meaning. Then I realized that it must mean a religious leader, and that it was evident to anyone who saw him that Swamiji was such a leader.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji092_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji092_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"711\"\n               data-title=\"CALIFORNIA, 1900\"\n               data-description=\"Ida Ansell recalled as she was leaving Camp Taylor in northern California: &quot;He [Swamiji] took me up the steep steps to the railroad track and flagged the train for me. There was no station and the train stopped only on signal. Swamiji&#039;s carriage was magnificent. His eyes were always turned skyward, never down. Someone said of him that he never saw anything lower than a telegraph pole. When the engine passed us, as the train slowed down, I heard the fireman say to the engineer, &#039;Hellow! Who is this sky pilot?&#039; I had never heard the expression and was puzzled at first as to its meaning. Then I realized that it must mean a religious leader, and that it was evident to anyone who saw him that Swamiji was such a leader.&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji092_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"CALIFORNIA, 1900\" alt=\"CALIFORNIA, 1900\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:232px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji092_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji092_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji093_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Miss Blanche Partington, a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle, visited the Turk Street flat where Swamiji was staying to interview him. Her report of this interview, &quot;A Dusky Philosopher From India&quot; was published in the Chronicle of March 18, 1900.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji093_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji093_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"712\"\n               data-title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\"\n               data-description=\"Miss Blanche Partington, a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle, visited the Turk Street flat where Swamiji was staying to interview him. Her report of this interview, &quot;A Dusky Philosopher From India&quot; was published in the Chronicle of March 18, 1900.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji093_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" alt=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" width=\"229\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:229px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji093_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji093_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji094_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"The Vedanta Society of Northern California secretary&#039;s minutes for February 9, 1903, read: &quot;A move was made and seconded that Miss Ansell, Mr. French, and Mr. Juhl be appointed a committee of three to inquire regarding copyright of photographs. Carried. Moved and seconded that Mr. French apply for copyright for Swami Vivekananda&#039;s photos--7 sittings.&quot; However, a copyright was never acquired by the Society.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji094_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji094_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"713\"\n               data-title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\"\n               data-description=\"The Vedanta Society of Northern California secretary&#039;s minutes for February 9, 1903, read: &quot;A move was made and seconded that Miss Ansell, Mr. French, and Mr. Juhl be appointed a committee of three to inquire regarding copyright of photographs. Carried. Moved and seconded that Mr. French apply for copyright for Swami Vivekananda&#039;s photos--7 sittings.&quot; However, a copyright was never acquired by the Society.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji094_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" alt=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" width=\"200\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:200px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji094_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji094_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji095_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"&quot;&#039;The beauty of Swamiji nobody can imagine,&#039; Mrs. Allan once said. &#039;His face, his hands, his feet, all were beautiful. Swami Trigunatita later said that Swamji&#039;s hands were far more beautiful than any woman&#039;s. His color would seem to change, some days being darker and some days lighter, but usually there was about it what can best be described as a golden glow.&#039; &quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji095_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji095_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"714\"\n               data-title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\"\n               data-description=\"&quot;&#039;The beauty of Swamiji nobody can imagine,&#039; Mrs. Allan once said. &#039;His face, his hands, his feet, all were beautiful. Swami Trigunatita later said that Swamji&#039;s hands were far more beautiful than any woman&#039;s. His color would seem to change, some days being darker and some days lighter, but usually there was about it what can best be described as a golden glow.&#039; &quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji095_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" alt=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" width=\"237\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:237px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji095_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji095_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji096_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Sister Gargi&#039;s thorough research has revealed that &quot;two sets of photographs had been taken at the same studio [Bushnell]. In one set [nos. 93-95] Swamiji wears his robe and turban; in the other, [nos. 96-99] which shows him seated in an ornately carved chair, his head is bare, he wears his clerical collar and loose black coat. In all these photographs, he seems piercingly beautiful, the embodiment--almost translucently so --of grace in every meaning of the word.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji096_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji096_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"715\"\n               data-title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\"\n               data-description=\"Sister Gargi&#039;s thorough research has revealed that &quot;two sets of photographs had been taken at the same studio [Bushnell]. In one set [nos. 93-95] Swamiji wears his robe and turban; in the other, [nos. 96-99] which shows him seated in an ornately carved chair, his head is bare, he wears his clerical collar and loose black coat. In all these photographs, he seems piercingly beautiful, the embodiment--almost translucently so --of grace in every meaning of the word.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji096_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" alt=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" width=\"225\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:225px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji096_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji096_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji097_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"&quot;As was the case everywhere, Swamiji met people of all kinds in San Francisco, and, as was the case always, he was equally friendly to all. &#039;He seemed to like all people,&#039; Mrs. Hansbrough once said. &#039;He was most compassionate; it seemed as if he never saw distinctions between people--almost as if he didn&#039;t see the difference between a duck and a man!&#039;&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji097_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji097_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"716\"\n               data-title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\"\n               data-description=\"&quot;As was the case everywhere, Swamiji met people of all kinds in San Francisco, and, as was the case always, he was equally friendly to all. &#039;He seemed to like all people,&#039; Mrs. Hansbrough once said. &#039;He was most compassionate; it seemed as if he never saw distinctions between people--almost as if he didn&#039;t see the difference between a duck and a man!&#039;&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji097_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" alt=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" width=\"223\" height=\"349\" style=\"max-width:223px;max-height:349px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji097_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji097_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji098_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"&quot;&#039;The Swami&#039;s personality impressed itself on the mind with visual intensity,&#039; Mr. [Frank] Rhodehamel was to write some ten years later. &#039;The speaking eyes, the wealth of facial expression and gesticulation; the wondrous Sanskrit chanting, sonorous, melodious, impressing one with the sense of mystic potency; the translations following in smiling confidence--all these set off by the spectacular apparel of the Hindu sannyasin--who can forget them?&#039;&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji098_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji098_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"717\"\n               data-title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\"\n               data-description=\"&quot;&#039;The Swami&#039;s personality impressed itself on the mind with visual intensity,&#039; Mr. [Frank] Rhodehamel was to write some ten years later. &#039;The speaking eyes, the wealth of facial expression and gesticulation; the wondrous Sanskrit chanting, sonorous, melodious, impressing one with the sense of mystic potency; the translations following in smiling confidence--all these set off by the spectacular apparel of the Hindu sannyasin--who can forget them?&#039;&quot;\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji098_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" alt=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" width=\"245\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:245px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji098_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji098_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji099_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Ida Ansell in her reminiscences recalled the first impression of Swamiji that she and her friends had when they met him in February 1900: We were startled and astonished at what we heard, amazed and enraptured at the swami&#039;s appearance. He was surely a Mahatma or a divine being, more than human. No one had ever been so sublimely eloquent or so deliciously humorous, such an entrancing storyteller, or such a perfect mimic.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji099_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji099_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"718\"\n               data-title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\"\n               data-description=\"Ida Ansell in her reminiscences recalled the first impression of Swamiji that she and her friends had when they met him in February 1900: We were startled and astonished at what we heard, amazed and enraptured at the swami&#039;s appearance. He was surely a Mahatma or a divine being, more than human. No one had ever been so sublimely eloquent or so deliciously humorous, such an entrancing storyteller, or such a perfect mimic.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji099_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" alt=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1900\" width=\"209\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:209px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji099_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji099_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji100_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"&quot;Charles Neilson was another Alameda friend whom Swamiji visited. It is indeed to him that we owe what many feel to be one of the most beautiful, &#039;speaking&#039; photographs of Swamiji that we possess. Among Mr. Allan&#039;s papers one finds an account of the circumstances under which it was taken.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji100_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji100_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"719\"\n               data-title=\"ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 1900\"\n               data-description=\"&quot;Charles Neilson was another Alameda friend whom Swamiji visited. It is indeed to him that we owe what many feel to be one of the most beautiful, &#039;speaking&#039; photographs of Swamiji that we possess. Among Mr. Allan&#039;s papers one finds an account of the circumstances under which it was taken.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji100_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 1900\" alt=\"ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 1900\" width=\"349\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:349px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji100_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji100_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji101_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"\u201cAccording to Mrs. Allan someone then said, \u2018Oh Swami, please smile for us!\u2019 Whereupon, Swamiji smiled, and as he did so the second photograph [101] of which Mrs. Allan once said, \u2018You will see everything in it,\u2019 was taken. Both pictures are reproduced here: the cross one and the all?inclusive one.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji101_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji101_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"720\"\n               data-title=\"ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 1900\"\n               data-description=\"\u201cAccording to Mrs. Allan someone then said, \u2018Oh Swami, please smile for us!\u2019 Whereupon, Swamiji smiled, and as he did so the second photograph [101] of which Mrs. Allan once said, \u2018You will see everything in it,\u2019 was taken. Both pictures are reproduced here: the cross one and the all?inclusive one.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji101_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 1900\" alt=\"ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 1900\" width=\"287\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:287px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji101_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji101_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji102_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"This photo as well as the following one, no. 103, were both taken in the same studio, although in the second one Swamiji has donned a cap. The ornate studio background is the same in both photos. One of the swamis of the Ramakrishna Order, who is from Shillong, said that there was a well-known photographic company in Shillong during those days called Ghosal Brothers. This company specialized in photography of Assam and of important government officials and other noteworthy people. It is possible that Sir Henry Cotton, who had been much impressed with Swamiji, arranged for Ghosal Brothers to take these two studio photographs.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji102_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji102_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"721\"\n               data-title=\"SHILLONG, 1901\"\n               data-description=\"This photo as well as the following one, no. 103, were both taken in the same studio, although in the second one Swamiji has donned a cap. The ornate studio background is the same in both photos. One of the swamis of the Ramakrishna Order, who is from Shillong, said that there was a well-known photographic company in Shillong during those days called Ghosal Brothers. This company specialized in photography of Assam and of important government officials and other noteworthy people. It is possible that Sir Henry Cotton, who had been much impressed with Swamiji, arranged for Ghosal Brothers to take these two studio photographs.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji102_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SHILLONG, 1901\" alt=\"SHILLONG, 1901\" width=\"270\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:270px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji102_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji102_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji103_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"See photo information under photograph 102.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji103_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji103_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"722\"\n               data-title=\"SHILLONG, 1901\"\n               data-description=\"See photo information under photograph 102.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji103_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SHILLONG, 1901\" alt=\"SHILLONG, 1901\" width=\"284\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:284px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji103_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji103_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji104_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"The Shillong hills are very beautiful. There, I met Sir Henry Cotton, the chief commissioner of Assam. He asked me, &quot;Swamiji, after traveling through Europe and America, what have you come to see here in these distant hills?&quot; Such a good and kind-hearted man as Sir Henry Cotton is rarely found. Hearing of my illness, he sent the Civil Surgeon and inquired after my health mornings and evenings. I could not do much lecturing there, because my health was very bad.\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji104_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji104_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"723\"\n               data-title=\"SHILLONG, 1901\"\n               data-description=\"The Shillong hills are very beautiful. There, I met Sir Henry Cotton, the chief commissioner of Assam. He asked me, &quot;Swamiji, after traveling through Europe and America, what have you come to see here in these distant hills?&quot; Such a good and kind-hearted man as Sir Henry Cotton is rarely found. Hearing of my illness, he sent the Civil Surgeon and inquired after my health mornings and evenings. I could not do much lecturing there, because my health was very bad.\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji104_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SHILLONG, 1901\" alt=\"SHILLONG, 1901\" width=\"258\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:258px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji104_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji104_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji105_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Swamiji wrote to Swami Swarupananda on May 15, 1901: \u201cI have just returned from my tour through East Bengal and Assam. As usual, am quite tired and broken down.\u201d And in a letter to Josephine MacLeod he wrote from Belur Math on June 14, 1901, \u201cAs for me, I was thrown hors de combat [disabled] in Assam. The climate of the Math is just reviving me a bit.\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji105_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji105_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"724\"\n               data-title=\"SHILLONG, 1901\"\n               data-description=\"Swamiji wrote to Swami Swarupananda on May 15, 1901: \u201cI have just returned from my tour through East Bengal and Assam. As usual, am quite tired and broken down.\u201d And in a letter to Josephine MacLeod he wrote from Belur Math on June 14, 1901, \u201cAs for me, I was thrown hors de combat [disabled] in Assam. The climate of the Math is just reviving me a bit.\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji105_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"SHILLONG, 1901\" alt=\"SHILLONG, 1901\" width=\"212\" height=\"350\" style=\"max-width:212px;max-height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji105_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji105_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji106_en.jpg\"\n               title=\"Three days before his passing away, as the swami [Swamiji] was walking up and down on the spacious lawn of the monastery in the afternoon with Swami Premananda, he pointed to a particular spot on the bank of the Ganga, and said to his brother monk gravely, \u201cWhen I give up the body, cremate it there!\u201d\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji106_en.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/thumbs\/thumbs_swamiji106_en.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"725\"\n               data-title=\"BELUR MATH, 1977 Swamiji\u2019s Temple\"\n               data-description=\"Three days before his passing away, as the swami [Swamiji] was walking up and down on the spacious lawn of the monastery in the afternoon with Swami Premananda, he pointed to a particular spot on the bank of the Ganga, and said to his brother monk gravely, \u201cWhen I give up the body, cremate it there!\u201d\"\n                class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"6e18f56a7f49056993bf7fadd5b68950\">\n                <picture>\n\t\n<source srcset='https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji106_en.jpg' media=''>\n<img title=\"BELUR MATH, 1977 Swamiji\u2019s Temple\" alt=\"BELUR MATH, 1977 Swamiji\u2019s Temple\" width=\"350\" height=\"240\" style=\"max-width:350px;max-height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji106_en.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-content\/gallery\/swami-vivekananda\/swamiji106_en.jpg\" onerror=\"nggRetryFailedImage(this);\"\/>\n<\/picture>            <\/a>\n                <\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;69&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_separator type=&#8221;transparent&#8221; down=&#8221;84&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swami Vivekananda, originariamente Narendranath Dutta era il principale discepolo del mistico Ramakrishna Paramahansa del XIX secolo e il fondatore della Ramakrishna Math e della Missione Ramakrishna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17696,"parent":16021,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"tags":[8978,9044,8803,8979,8680],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17682"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28151,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17682\/revisions\/28151"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverypublisher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}