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Childhood (1863 - 1874)
Childhood (1863 - 1874)
Total Records Found: 41
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Bhuvaneshwari Devi longing for a son and was praying a household diety for her desire to be fulfilled. (LSV 1.010)
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In addition Bhuvaneshwari Devi made arrangements for offerings and prayers to lord Vishwanath at Varanasi (LSV 1.010)
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One night Bhuvaneshwari Devi had a vivid dream. (LSV 1.011)
12 Jan 1863
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A son was born to Bhuvaneshwari Devi. The position of planets at the time of birth. (LSV 1.011)
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New born babe was resembling like his grand father, Durgaprasad, who had renounced the world. Intial name was Vireshwar or Bileh, later he was called as Narendranath or Naren (LSV 1.012)
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Naren was not ordinary babe (LSV 1.012)
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Naren was a naughty child (LSV 1.012)
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In her old age Bhuvaneshwari once told this to a group of disciples whom her son had brought from the West. There was laughter, and the mother smiled in a reminiscent way. "Was he turbulent?" asked one of the Western disciples. "Well, I had to have two nurses for him constantly", she replied. (LSV 1.012)
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But otherwise Naren was sweet and loving child. (LSV 1.013)
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Naren was very much fond of wandering monks. He would be happy to give anything he had to the sadhu (LSV 1.013)
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Naren was a gret tease too ! (LSV 1.013)
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Naren was fond of pet animals also especially fond of the family cows (LSV 1.013)
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Naren's childhood ambition was to become a syce or groom (LSV 1.014)
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Naren had first education at the knee of his mother. It had a great influence on his mind (LSV 1.014)
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Naren heard many stories of Bhagavatam from her meternal grand mother and her mother (LSV 1.014)
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Even street singers have contributed to Naren's education (LSV 1.014)
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First seed of Naren's spiritual life sawn in childhood. Set for deep meditation for the first time. (LSV 1.015)
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Shortly after this, the all-knowing syce created a disturbance in Naren's immature mind. (LSV 1.015)
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Inspite of all this, Ramayana had a great fascination for Naren (LSV 1.017)
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Naren had fancy of becoming Sannyasi even In childhood. (LSV 1.017)
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Naren was expecting his hair to grow like a monk when he sits for meditation (LSV 1.017)
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Bhuvaneshwari Devi sometimes used to stop thought process of Naren as once he wanted to go back to lord Shiva. (LSV 1.018)
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Naren liked to play game of meditation, it awakened him deep spiritual emotions (LSV 1.018)
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Naren used to sit in deep meditation, even snake could not disturb him. (LSV 1.018)
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Naren used to have strange vision every night (LSV 1.019)
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At later date Naren learnt so well to sink itself in deep meditation (LSV 1.019)
1869
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At age of six naren went to Pathshala (LSV 1.019)
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Later a private tutor was engaged in a house for a Naren and other boys (LSV 1.020)
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Naren was noticed for his exceptional intelligence (LSV 1.020)
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Naren learn many things at mother's knee. He was proud of his mother (LSV 1.020)
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Naren acquired considerable grounding in Sanskrit from other members of household (LSV 1.021)
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On a certain occasion a party of wandering singers, who earned their livelihood by chanting the Ramayana, came to Naren's house. They made a number of mistakes in reciting the text. Naren stopped them and pointed out their errors, greatly surprising and pleasing them. (LSV 1.021)
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Naren's father contributed to his learning of music. (LSV 1.021)
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Naren's father had a unique method of correcting a misbehaved child by exposing him to his friends instead of scolding. (LSV 1.022)
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Naren had leadership quality. He asserted himself as leader among his fellows. (LSV 1.022)
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Naren's favourite game was 'king and tha Court'. He always be the king and admistered justice with royal dignity. (LSV 1.022)
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Naren's experiment on breaking castes (LSV 1.023)
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Naren had a scar on his forhead because of a fall in childhood (LSV 1.024)
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At the age of six, Naren demonstrated the truth that leadership means self secrifice. (LSV 1.024)
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Naren read a passage from Mahabharata at the death bed of his grand uncle Kaliprasad who blessed him of great future. (LSV 1.024)
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As great people of the world are conscious of their power right from their childhood, Narendranath, too, felt spirit of greatness within him right from childhood. (LSV 1.025)
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