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Europe: Continental tour (July-Sept 1896)
Europe: Continental tour (July-Sept 1896)
Total Records Found: 68
Jul 1896
CE
In the 1890s a trip to Switzerland was not the simple matter it is today.The Swiss Alps were probably as close to the Himalayas. (LSV 2.114 ND 4.247)
Jul 1896
CE
Swami Vidyatmananda has traced in vivid detail Swamiji’s Swiss tour-uphill and down In his valuable article "Vivekananda in Switzerland, 1896". (ND 4.247)
19 Jul 1896
CE
On the morning of the departure the Swami was all excitement. He had unburdened himself of the very thought of responsibilities. Several of his London friends formed a farewell party; but there was no sadness in this farewell, as the Swami was to return within two months or so. (LSV 2.115)
Jul 1896
CE
On their way to Geneva. (LSV 2.115 ND 4.247)
Jul 1896
CE
At the far end of the lake, some forty miles away, stands the Castle of Chillon, made famous by Lord Byron's poem "The Prisoner of Chillon". (LSV 2.116 ND 4.248)
Jul 1896
CE
Now as the party approached Chamonix the grand spectacle of Mont Blanc opened up to view.It was here that the Swami suffered from vertigo for the first time in his life; his foot slipped more than once. (LSV 2.116 ND 4.250)
Jul 1896
CE
Like a boy out of school, Swamiji was by no means lacking in physical energy. (ND 4.250)
Jul 1896
News reports
There was only one incident of a slightly disturbing character at Saas-Fee. (LSV 2.120)
Jul 1896
I
One more incident on way home. (LSV 2.120)
Jul 1896
ME
Swamiji had a thought and a vision of establshing a monastery in heart of Himalayas. (LSV 2.117 ND 4.251)
Jul 1896
S
While moving in Alps, Swamiji gave voice to a long thought out plan of establishing Advaita Ashrama in Himalayas. (ND 4.253)
Jul 1896
S
Two or three years later, shortly after the Seviers had found and purchased an old Himalayan tea plantation, where the Advaita Ashrama was to be established, Swamiji would clearly define its general purpose and scope. (ND 4.254)
Jul 1896
S
In the January 1900 issue of Prabuddha Bharata, by then being printed at Mayavati itself, the above-mentioned prospectus appeared. (ND 4.255)
Jul 1896
S
Swamiji wanted the Advaita Ashrama at Mayavati to be a center of intensive spiritual and intellectual study which would train men and women to become true Advaitins. (ND 4.256)
Jul 1896
S
Swamiji spoke of the establishment of Advaita Ashrama at Mayavati as the very heart of his world mission. (ND 4.256)
Jul 1896
S
In June of 1900 there appeared in Prabuddha Bharata a more or less detailed plan of how Swamiji's experiment would be carried out. (ND 4.258)
Jul 1896
S
Four months after Swamiji's death in July of 1902, the following began to appear inside the front cover of almost every issue of Prabuddha Bharata from November 1902 through April 1905: (ND 4.260)
Jul 1896
S
Perhaps no householders applied, or perhaps because of the limited accommodations at Mayavati it was found impossible to arrange for their temporary or permanent residence in the Ashrama. (ND 4.261)
Jul 1896
S
To return to Switzerland, where the idea for the Ashrama began to take form, so certain was Swamiji of what he wanted that he at once set the wheels in motion. (ND 4.262)
Jul 1896
CE
From Chamonix, the travellers made a four-day mountainous trek to the village of Little St. Bernard. Later they visited Zermatt and also Saas-Fee. (LSV 2.118 ND 4.252)
Jul 1896
CE
Impression of one of those who were with him in the wondrous sojourn at Saas-Fee. (LSV 2.120)
Jul 1896
CE
From Little St. Bernard the party returned to Chamonix by the same route they had come-there was no other. (ND 4.262)
Jul 1896
CE
One of these small flowers Swamiji sent in a letter (probably on August 3 or 4) to his disciple Kripananda. (ND 4.263)
Jul 1896
CE
Kripananda was indeed in misery. (ND 4.263)
23 Jul 1896
CE
Mrs. Bull's letter to Kripananda was dated July 23 and read in part: (ND 4.264)
23 Jul 1896
CE
In reply, Kripananda returned Mrs. Bull's check along with ten pages of bitter vituperation in elegant Spencerian script. In the course of this letter, dated July 27, he wrote: (ND 4.265)
Jul 1896
CE
This time she would not. Mrs. Bull replied to Kripananda, but she addressed him as "Leon Landsberg." (ND 4.267)
Jul 1896
CE
This high-handed and devastating letter, which Kripananda did not answer (ND 4.268)
25 Jul 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to BULL MRS.OLE From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 6.368)
25 Jul 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to Mrs. Bull dated July 25 was written in the shadow of the overwhelmingly near Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps, and it is small wonder that he wanted "to forget the world entirely." In asmuch as only two or three sentences of this letter have been heretofore published, it is given here in full: (ND 4.249)
25 Jul 1896
CE
Swamiji's mood was reflected also in his letters of that period. (LSV 2.119)
1896
S
Received Prof. Deussen's letter inviting Swamiji to Kiel, Germany. This changed travel plans. Swamiji's friends managed the travel in a way that he get chance to see the Germany. (LSV 2.121)
Aug 1896
S
Urgent business compelled Miss Muller to leave the party at Lucerne, and she departed for London. (LSV 2.122)
4 Aug 1896
CE
From Zermatt, where Swamiji gathered a few Alpine flowers by the Monte Rosa glacier, the party traveled to Saas-Fee. (ND 4.269)
4 Aug 1896
CE
Swamiji's stay of two weeks in Saas-Fee-from around August 4 to August 19-was, in respect to the rest he had so badly wanted. (ND 4.270)
Jul 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to STURDY E T From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 8.380 ND 4.271)
5 Aug 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to SISTER CHRISTINE From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 9.089 ND 4.270)
5 Aug 1896
Letter
On the morning of August 5 Swamiji received a cordial letter from Professor Max Muller, dated August 2, 1896, and written from Droitwick, a small town in Worcester County, England. It is given here in full: (ND 4.272)
5 Aug 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to STURDY E T From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 8.380 ND 4.273)
5 Aug 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to SHAH LALABADRI From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 6.368)
Aug 1896
Notes
Swamiji was much refreshed now. (ND 4.275)
Aug 1896
Notes
Those who were with Swamiji at Saas-Fee were witness to his transcendent state of consciousness. (ND 4.275)
6 Aug 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to ALASINGA PERUMAL From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 5.109)
Aug 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to LANDSBERG LEON-KRIPANANDA From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 8.381)
8 Aug 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to ALASINGA PERUMAL From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 5.111 ND 4.274)
8 Aug 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to GOODWIN J J From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 8.383)
8 Aug 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to STURDY E T From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 8.386)
12 Aug 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to STURDY E T From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 8.387)
20 Aug 1896
Notes
After two world-forgetting weeks in Saas-Fee, where, the Life recounts, the party left, probably on August 20, for Lucerne. (ND 4.276)
23 Aug 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to RAMAKRISHNANANDA From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 6.369)
23 Aug 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to BULL MRS.OLE From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 6.370)
23 Aug 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to STURDY E T From LUCERNE (CW SV 5.112)
Aug 1896
S
But at this period of the trip Swamiji was not feeling well. Miss Muller left the party and left for London. (ND 4. 277)
26 Aug 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to RAO DR.NANJUNDA From SWITZERLAND (CW SV 5.113)
1896
CE
Swamiji in Germany and Holland. Schaffenhausen- 10. Heidelberg (2 days stop) - 11. Coblenz (night halt) - 12. Cologne (spent several days) - 13. Berlin (3 days) (ND 4.278)
Sep 1896
S
Accordingly the party proceeded to Kiel, arriving on September 8. (LSV 2.123)
8 Sep 1896
S
Sending word of their day-early arrival to Professor Deussen, they received in reply an invitation for breakfast the following morning. (ND 4. 281)
Sep 1896
S
Swamiji met Prof. Deussen at his residence at Kiel. (LSV 2.123)
Sep 1896
S
Dr. Paul Deussen was fifty-one years old and at the height of his powers when he and Swamiji met. (ND 4.282)
Sep 1896
I
An incedent of Swamiji's remarkable feat of memory. (LSV 2.125)
9 Sep 1896
S
In November of 1892, prof. Deussen and his wife took a trip to India, where they stayed for four or five months. (ND 4.284)
10 Sep 1896
S
The next day, Thursday, September 10, was given over to sightseeing in and around the city, the Deussens conducting the tour. (ND 4.285)
1896
0
2. Bremen (LSV)
10 Sep 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to STURDY E T From Kiel (CW SV 8.388)
11 Sep 1896
S
On September 11 Swamiji and the Seviers left Kiel for Hamburg, and thence on to Bremen, where Professor Deussen joined them. (ND 4.286)
1896
S
Return journey to London. Prof planned to accompany them to spend time with swamiji. (LSV 2.126)
1896
Notes
In his autobiography, Mein Leben, Deussen wrote an account of his meeting with Swamiji. (ND 4.286)
Sep 1896
Notes
Swamiji, for his part, had only kind, impersonal things to say of his friend. (ND 4.288)
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