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Igniting The Indian Work (1893 - 1896)
Igniting The Indian Work (1893 - 1896)
Total Records Found: 49
Mar 1893
Analysis
On his way to America in the spring of 1893, Swamiji wrote from Yokohama to his Madras disciples. (ND 4.403)
Jun 1893
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Throughout his first visit to the West Swamiji had been deeply concerned with the initiation of his work in India. (ND 4.402)
Nov 1893
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Swamiji wrote to Alasinga from Chicago in November of 1893. (ND 4.404)
Jan 1894
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Swamiji wrote from Chicago in January of 1894 to his brother disciples about his travel through India in search of funds. (ND 4.402)
Jan 1894
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Swamiji recognized the impossibility of collecting adequate sums of money. He stayed on in America. (ND 4.403)
Jan 1894
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Swamiji wrote to Alasinga from Massachusetts about his visit to reformatory for women. (ND 4.404)
Jan 1894
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Swamiji is a sympathiser for every reform [he went on in this letter of January 24, 1894 to Alasinga]. (ND 4.405)
Jan 1894
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Swamiji wrote in his first letter from America to Alasinga, Religion is not at fault. (ND 4.405)
Jan 1894
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The first necessity, as Swamiji then saw it, was education, and this on all fronts. (ND 4.406)
Jan 1894
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It was not until January of 1894,(probably on the nine-teenth) that Swamiji wrote his first letter to his brother disciples. (ND 4.409)
Jan 1894
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What appears to be Swamiji's third letter to Swami Ramakrishnananda was a thunderclap. (ND 4.411)
Nov 1894
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Swami Akhandananda had, on his own, taken a vow to alleviate the sufferings of the tenants of the Raja of Khetri in Rajputana. (ND 4.416)
Mar 1894
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Swamiji's second letter to Swami Ramakrishnananda was almost certainly written on March 19. (ND 4.410)
Mar 1896
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What appears to have been Swamiji's next letter (the fourth) to his brother disciples reinforced all he had written so far. He started quietly, explaining his earlier impatience: (ND 4.414)
Mar 1894
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As Swamiji wrote this letter he became more and more impassioned, as though rising to higher and yet higher states of being and of knowing: (ND 4.415)
May 1894
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Swamiji probably received this letter in May of 1894, and his joy can only be imagined. He replied with explicit instructions: (ND 4.417)
Jun 1894
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How many of Sri Ramakrishna's monastic disciples were living at Alambazar Math in the first part of 1894 is not definitely known. (ND 4.416)
Sep 1894
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Swamiji wrote to his friend Manmatha Nath Bhattacharya in September of 1894. (ND 4.406)
Nov 1894
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This was, indeed, the theme of Swamiji's Reply to the Calcutta Address, which he wrote in New York on November 18, 1894: (ND 4.407)
Nov 1894
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"On getting this reply," Swami Akhandananda recounted, "I applied all my energy to work. And thus, on a tiny scale, almost imperceptibly, began the humanitarian work of the Ramakrishna Order in India. (ND 4.417)
Nov 1894
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Further, he wanted his householder disciples in Madras to work along the same lines. (ND 4.408)
Nov 1894
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Meanwhile in America Swamiji had been bombarded with every kind of slander his enemies could conceive of. (ND 4.418)
Dec 1894
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A month or two later, probably in December of 1894, Swamiji wrote to Swami Brahmananda. (ND 4.418)
Dec 1894
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Over and over again Swamiji bolstered the self-confidence of his brother disciples. (ND 4.419)
Dec 1894
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Swamiji wrote to Swami Abhedananda aroud the end of 1894: (ND 4.420)
Dec 1894
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One of the things Swamiji observed in the West and pondered over as an element essential not only to his work in India but to the new East-West culture he envisioned was the power of organization. (ND 4.421)
Dec 1894
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Although Swamiji did not at this time designate any one of his brothers as leader in his absence, he wrote in the same cautionary vein of the qualifications for leadership. (ND 4.421)
Dec 1894
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Swamiji eventually succeeded in forming an organization of spiritual giants in which "each does his own part, and all the parts taken together express an ideal of harmony, was one of his greatest achievements. (ND 4.422)
Dec 1894
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He was indeed "struck dumb with wonderment at seeing the women of America." (ND 4.422)
Dec 1894
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Swamiji was among the first of Sri Ramakrishna's disciples to recognize the divinity of Sri Sarada Devi. (ND 4.422)
Jan 1895
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Throughout 1895 and a part of 1896 Swamiji continued to write to his brother disciples, repeatedly encouraging them, prodding them, urging them on. (ND 4.424)
Jan 1895
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When Swami Trigunatita thought of bringing out a Bengali language magazine, Swamiji heartily applauded the idea. (ND 4.425)
Jan 1895
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The many centers of the Order that are today flourishing throughout India also had their genesis in Swamiji's letters from the West. (ND 4.426)
Jan 1895
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One of his primary wishes was that the annual celebrations at the Dakshineswar Temple of Sri Ramakrishna's birthday should attract "a hundred thousand people" and be not only memorial festival but also "the central union of an intense propaganda of his doctrines. (ND 4.427)
Jan 1895
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The difficulty was that the Person in question was a Presence as indubitably shining as the sun on a cloudless day and essential to the renewed life of the principles. (ND 4.428)
Jan 1895
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In his long and stirring Reply to the Madras Address, which he wrote in September of 1894, and through which he hoped to reach the people of India, he made himself very clear: (ND 4.429)
Jan 1895
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And to Justice Sir Subramanya Iyer in January of 1895: (ND 4.430)
May 1895
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Again on May 14, 1895 (a time when he was giving public lectures now and then in order to support his New York classes), he wrote: (ND 4.437)
May 1895
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From May of 1895 forward Swamiji gave more and more thought to the magazine-which was named the Brahmavadin. (ND 4.438)
Oct 1895
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Curiously, it was another Madras magazine, far less ambitious at its inception than the Brahmavadin, that was to survive and grow. (ND 4.438)
Nov 1895
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By the end of 1895 most of Swamiji's brother disciples had returned at his call to Alambazar Math. (ND 4.430)
Nov 1895
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Swamiji had not forgotten that he wanted to build a math for women, with Sri Sarada Devi at its head. (ND 4.432)
Nov 1895
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All this time-through 1894, '95, and '96-Swamiji had been writing to his disciples in Madras. (ND 4.433)
Nov 1895
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Although Swamiji addressed most of his letters to Alasinga Perumal, his instructions were meant for the small group of young householders as a whole. (ND 4.433)
Nov 1895
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Swamiji's letters to Madras were not different in essence from those to his brother disciples. (ND 4.433)
Nov 1895
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At first, as we have seen earlier, he urged his disciples to work among the poor, educating them. (ND 4.434)
Nov 1895
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Again and again Swamiji wrote in this vein. In addition he urged his disciples to collect funds to build a temple in Madras and eventually to start a colony in Central India. (ND 4.435)
Nov 1895
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He knew the answer could only be no, for while his disciples would do all they could, it would not be enough. (ND 4.437)
Dec 1895
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To do justice to the letters Swamiji wrote to his disciples and brother disciples throughout his first visit to the West, even while he was expending the energy of a giant on every level of his being for his Western work, would be to quote them all in full. (ND 4.440)
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