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Total Records Found: 109
28 Jun 1894
CE
Swamiji arrived from Chicago to NY. Stayed a few days with Leon Landsburg then with Miss Mary Philips. (ND 2.125 LSV 1.509)
Jun 1894
CE
Despite the fact that outward circumstances had been dark indeed, inwardly Swamiji was filled with spiritual joy. (ND 2.122)
28 Jun 1894
Letter
Almost at once he wrote to Mrs. Hale to tell her so: (CW SV 9.023 ND 2.126)
28 Jun 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to Hale Mrs.G W from New York. (CW SV 9.023)
1 Jul 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to Hale Mrs.G W from New York. (CW SV 9.024 LSV 1.509 ND 2.126)
Jul 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to Hale Mrs.G W from New York. (CW SV 8.314 ND 2.128)
Jul 1894
CE
Most of the Swamiji's friends were out of town in this hot summer month, and he, too, soon left the city, it not being the season for lectures. (LSV 1.509)
9 Jul 1894
CE
A letter telling the Swamiji of this Dharmapala's meeting reached him around July 9 and seems to have been the first news of India's public action on his behalf that he had so far received. (LSV 1.498)
9 Jul 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to Hale Sisters from New York. (CW SV 8.316 ND 2.116 LSV 1.498)
11 Jul 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to Alasinga Perumal from USA (CW SV 5.036 LSV 1.498 ND 2.104 ND 2.181)
15 Jul 1894
CE
(July middle) Swamiji at Cedar Lawn, Fishkill landing on the Hudson, guest of Dr. Guernsey (ND 2.128 LSV 1.509)
Jul 1894
Letter
Post-script to an undated letter written to Mrs. Hale from Fishkill Landing, he wrote: (ND 2.128)
19 Jul 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to Hale Mrs.G W from Cedar Lawn. (CW SV 9.025 LSV 1.509 ND 2.129)
Jul 1894
CE
Swamiji from Fishkill to Swampscott, MA (LSV 1.509 ND 2.131)
23 Jul 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MRS.G W From Swampscott, MA (CW SV 9.027 LSV 1.509 ND 2.131)
26 Jul 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE SISTERS From NEW YORK (CW SV 8.316 ND 2.132)
Jul 1894
S
Swamiji's lectures created sensation. (ND 2.133)
Jul 1894
S
Ever since his arrival in America in July of 1893, Swamiji had been under the constant strain of lecturing. (ND 2.133)
Jul 1894
S
During this period one can detect a turning point in Swamiji's thought and the beginnings, at least, of a new idea regarding his mission in America. (ND 2.134)
Jul 1894
S
Perhaps his change of mind in regard to earning money was due not only to a realistic view of things, but also to a dislike of money itself, inherent in the man of renunciation, for even though Swamiji was not attempting to raise funds for himself but for India, the very sight and touch of it was repugnant to him. "You know the greatest difficulty with me is to keep or even to touch money," he wrote to Alasinga on August 31. "It is disgusting and debasing." (ND 2.135)
Jul 1894
S
But Swamiji's work of lecturing on India and of trying to earn money for her had been the two ostensive objects of his life in America. If he was not to continue along these lines, then what pattern was his work to take? Surely, a change was taking place in his mind, and, on the whole, one cannot view this summer of 1894 as merely a period of relaxation for him, a sort of hiatus between seasons; it was rather a period of transition in which his mind, freed from daily pressure, tended toward its natural state of creative quiet, a state from which would eventually arise new modes of thought and activity. (ND 2.135)
Jul 1894
CE
As though by some cosmic intention, the outward circumstances of his life at this time seem to have been readymade for him. It was toward the end of July, when he was in a mood of spiritual creativity and when, consciously or unconsciously, he was seeking a new form of approach to the American people, that he went to Greenacre. (ND 2.135)
26 Jul 1894
CE
Actually, however, he did not leave Swampscott until Thursday, July 26, arriving at Greenacre, near Eliot, Maine, the same day. (LSV 1.509 ND 2.135)
Jul 1894
CE
About Greenacre. (LSV 1.509 ND 2.135)
Jul 1894
CE
About Miss Sarah Farmer (ND 2.136 LSV 1.510)
27 Jul 1894
CE
Invited by Miss Farmer, he stayed at Greenacre from July 26 through August 13, 1894. Swamiji at Green acre conference to train a small band of earnest disciples as was his desire. (ND 2.140)
Jul 1894
CE
Swamiji held a series of classes, expounding the Vedanta philosophy to a group of enthusiastic students who sat around him in oriental fashion under a venerable pine tree, since called the "Swami's Pine". (LSV 1.510)
28 Jul 1894
News reports
An article headed VIVEKANANDA AT GREENACRE appeared in Boston's brahminical and world¬famous Evening Transcript. (ND 2.141)
Jul 1894
I
Swamiji slept under the sky at Greenacre pine with camp people. (ND 2.151)
Jul 1894
Notes
Swamiji wrote about this to Isabelle McKindley. (ND 2.151)
31 Jul 1894
News reports
News Report in Portsmouth Daily Chronicle about Swamiji in " Greenacre Notes". (ND 2.143)
31 Jul 1894
News reports
Even the storm that struck Greenacre on Sunday, July 31, a day or so after the night under the stars, was glory. This was no small tempest. In "Greenacre Notes," dated July 31, the Portsmouth Daily Chronicle reported upon it as follows: (ND 2.151)
Jul 1894
S
And a figure never to be forgotten. Of those days at Greenacre one who was there as a child wrote in old age to a friend, "I sat under [the "Swami's Pine"] many times and heard Swami Vivekananda give his talks when I was a young girl. . . . How well I remember Swami Vivekananda with his pleasant smile and beautiful eyes. I can see him now in my mind walking up the roads with his Turban and Robe on with people following behind. (ND 2.143)
31 Jul 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE SISTERS From GREENACRE (CW SV 6.259 ND 2.137 ND 2.152)
31 Jul 1894
Letter
In the same vein, Swamiji wrote at another time and in another connection: "I am perfectly aware that although some truth underlies the mass of mystical thought which has burst upon the Western world of late, it is for the most part full of motives unworthy or insane. For this reason, I have never had anything to do with these phases of religion, either in India or elsewhere, and mystics as a class are not very favourable to me. (ND 2.152)
Jul 1894
I
We have two pictures of Swamiji taken at Greenacre under his pine. (ND 2.153)
Jul 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to GURUBHAI From USA (CW SV 6.263)
Aug 1894
S
But aside from the religious oddities who romped over the hills, there were men and women of more serious and sound turn of mind. (ND 2.138)
Aug 1894
S
Swamiji met Dr. Janes in New York before his visit to Greenacre, possibly in May. (ND 2.138)
2 Aug 1894
Letter
Dewanji, Haridas Viharidas Desai, wrote to Mr. G. W. Hale in staunch defence of his beloved Swami Vivekananda. His letter, which was dated August 2, 1894, has come to light only recently. He wrote: (LSV 1.489 ND 2.111)
5 Aug 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MRS.G W From MAINE (CW SV 9.028 ND 2.139 LSV 1.510)
8 Aug 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MRS.G W From MAINE (CW SV 9.029 ND 2.156)
8 Aug 1894
CE
Swamiji was at Massachusetts. On August 8 he had written to Mrs. Hale of the invitation he had received to lecture there at an important meeting of the leaders of the most liberal school of Christianity. ( ND 2.156)
9 Aug 1894
News reports
News Report - the Portsmouth Daily chronicle of August 9 (ND 2.154)
Aug 1894
News reports
News report written by Mrs. Bull was printed on August 11 in the Evening Transcript. (ND 2.143)
Aug 1894
CE
To judge from Mrs. Bull's "when he will give it," which she slipped into the last sentence of her article, this was not the first of Swamiji's lectures she had heard. One is inclined to think that in May she had attended his talks in Boston and Cambridge, where, as Mrs. John Henry Wright had observed, he made "witty, bitter, sharp flings that were all deserved, all neatly done, all to the point: ' But however much to the point Swamiji's outspokenness was, Mrs. Bull was long in becoming reconciled to it. (ND 2.145)
Aug 1894
CE
Many and various were the lectures delivered in the `Hall of Peace" that summer at Greenacre, and in Appendix A we have given the season's program for its interest as an intellectual background. (ND 2.145)
Aug 1894
CE
Swamiji's classes at " Swami's Pines " (ND 2.145)
11 Aug 1894
Letter
Swamiji indeed had everything he required and more to spare. Help came unasked, and sometimes it came unwanted. On August 11 he wrote to the Hale sisters from Greenacre. (CW SV 8.318 ND 2.157)
Aug 1894
CE
Aside from Swamiji's lack of need, he habitually refused any offering with the least string attached; even a gossamer thread was to him a rope. (ND 2.157)
12 Aug 1894
News reports
A reporter of the Lewiston Saturday Journal of August 12, 1899, has left an excellent picture d' those forest classes: (ND 2.141)
Aug 1894
Notes
THE RELIGION OF INDIA : Notes of Swamiji's daily morning classes delivered at Greenacre, Maine and recorded by Miss Emma Thursby (CW SV 9.267 ND 2.145-49)
Aug 1894
Notes
It is clear from Miss Thursby's notes that in his exalted mood, surrounded by receptive and eager seekers of truth, Swamiji spoke much more of philosophy and spiritual practice than of the manners and customs of India. (ND 2.149)
Aug 1894
Notes
it was at, Greenacre that Swamiji taught for the first time in America the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta. (ND 2.150)
Aug 1894
Notes
Swamiji thought highly of the work carried on at Greenacre. In 1895 he would write to Mrs. Bull, who had offered to con¬tribute to his Indian fund: "I sincerely believe that you ought to turn all your help to Miss Farmer's Greenacre work this year. India can wait as she is waiting centuries and an immediate work at hand should always have the preference. In Miss Farmer's Greenacre work Swamiji saw the practical application of his teaching that religious growth never goes from evil to good but from good to better. (ND 2.158)
Aug 1894
Letter
In December of 1895 he wrote to Mrs. Bull: (ND 2.158)
Aug 1894
CE
As the years went on, Greenacre increased and flourished, many men and women offering their time and support. (ND 2.159)
13 Aug 1894
News reports
It was perhaps of such a still, warm night under the stars that the Evening Transcript of August 13 commented: Emerson and Bronson Alcott and all of the old Concord set would have enjoyed sitting out under the stars at Greenacre to listen while the Hindu Vivekananda rolled forth the solemn poetry of the Vedas for an hour the other night in his excellent English. (ND 2.151)
13 Aug 1894
CE
On Monday, August 13, Swamiji went directly from Greenacre to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where he had been invited to speak that same day (LSV 1.510 ND 2.160)
13 Aug 1894
CE
All about Mr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson closely connected with the Free Religious Association. (LSV 1.510 ND 2.160)
Aug 1894
CE
Leaving Plymouth, Swamiji again visited his friends Dr. and Mrs. Guernsey at Fishkill Landing. Here he stayed for only a few days. (CB SV ND 2.163)
Aug 1894
CE
From Fishkill Landing, on Mrs. Bagley's confirmed invitation Swamiji took the train to Boston and thence to Annisquam. (ND 2.163)
Aug 1894
CE
In the fitness of things, it was while Swamiji was in Annisquam that news of the Madras Address, a document that put the seal of official approval upon his year of labor in the West, was published in the American newspapers. The times had changed; Swamiji himself had not changed. (ND 2.163)
14 Aug 1894
News reports
The following story, which found its way into the "Jottings" column of the Transcript of August 14, may have referred to Mrs. Pratt's offer or to some other equally well-meant wish to serve this servant of the Lord. It was not that easy. (ND 2.157)
14 Aug 1894
News reports
Unfortunately we have no detailed account of what Swamiji said; but the meeting itself was described in the following article that appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript of August 14: (ND 2.160)
15 Aug 1894
News reports
On Wednesday, August 15, the Evening Transcript printed a brief account of Swamiji's last class under his pine (ND 2.154)
17 Aug 1894
CE
From Plymouth the Swamiji travelled to the seaside village of Annisquam, Massachusetts, around August 16 /17. (LSV 1.511 ND 2.164)
Aug 1894
CE
During that time he made a three-day visit, at the invitation of a Mrs. Percy Smith, to another seaside resort town, named Magnolia, and there delivered a lecture. (LSV 1. 511)
Aug 1894
CE
Of this visit Mrs. Bagley was to write, "At Annisquam last summer I had a cottage and we wrote to Vivekananda, who was in Boston, inviting him again to visit us there, which he did, remaining three weeks, not only conferring a favor upon us, but a great pleasure I am sure, to friends who had cottages near us." (ND 2.164)
Aug 1894
CE
Swamiji evidently had many boat rides during the summer of 1894. (ND 2.165)
Aug 1894
CE
Sister Nivedita recalls at later date about a tale of a Chinaman. (ND 2.164)
20 Aug 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to MCKINDLEY ISABELLE From ANNISQUAM (CW SV 5.038 ND 2.134 ND 2.165)
20 Aug 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MRS.G W From ANNISQUAM (CW SV 9.031 ND 2.167)
Aug 1894
CE
Swamiji received bundles of mail at Anniaquam, forwarded to him by Mrs. Hale. (ND 2.167)
Aug 1894
CE
With all this mail from India, there was still nothing to let Swamiji know that the Madras Meeting had been successfully held. (ND 2.168)
22 Aug 1894
CE
The Swami's name soon became a household word in every province in India. Other large and influential meetings were held in many places in the year 1894 to congratulate him on his success in America and applaud his work in the cause of Hinduism. (LSV 1.499)
22 Aug 1894
News reports
On August 22 a public meeting was held in Kumbakonam, of which the Hindu (as quoted in the Indian Mirror of September 1, 1894) wrote in part: (LSV 1.500)
23 Aug 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to Hale Mrs. G W from Annisquam. (CW SV 9.032 ND 2.105 ND 2.124 LSV 1.508)
23 Aug 1894
CE
But before Narasimha could become a Christian missionary, Swamiji's more direct plan for his return to India went into effect. (ND 2.125)
24 Aug 1894
CE
The next day we find Swamiji giving a lecture in Magnolia, then a beautiful seaside resort village on the south side of Cape Ann, where the affluent summered in huge wooden hotels with long varandahs and a view of the sea. (ND 2.168)
25 Aug 1894
News reports
In the Cape Ann Breeze of August 25the following information appeared: (ND 2.168)
26 Aug 1894
News reports
On the morning of August 26, 1894, a large public meeting was held in Bangalore in the Lecture Hall of the Central College, with Sir K. Seshadri Iyer, K.C.S.I., Dewan of Mysore, in the chair. (LSV 1.500)
27 Aug 1894
S
Everything else we know at the present time about Swamiji's side visit to Magnolia comes from a long letter he wrote to Mrs. Hale after his return to Annisquam. (ND 2.168)
Aug 1894
S
(He wrote it, he remarked, with a new fountain pen, which some unknown friend had sent him from New York and which worked "very smoothly and nicely, as you can judge from the writing: (ND 2.168)
28 Aug 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MRS.G W From ANNISQUAM (CW SV 9.035 ND 2.132 ND 2.168)
30 Aug 1894
News reports
A week after Swamiji wrote the above, news of the Madras Meeting appeared in the American newspapers, and it was through the following editorial in the Boston Evening Transcript of August 30 that he at last came to know that at least some of the formal recognition necessary to his work had been accorded it: (ND 2.107 LSV 1.499)
31 Aug 1894
S
On August 31 the Boston Evening Transcript of the previous day reached Annisquam, and in its sedate and prestigious pages Swamiji read for the first time published news of the Madras Meeting. A few days later came the bundle of reports from India, sent to him by Alasinga and forwarded to Annisquam by Mrs. Hale. Thus, as the summer drew to a close the American public learned that Swamiji, was a true and officially acknowledged representative of his country’s religion. The long wait was over. (ND 2.170)
Aug 1894
S
All the residents of Annisquam no doubt heard the news and were thereby more happy than ever that their remarkable visitor was going to lecture on the evening of Tuesday, September 4, at Mechanics Hall (a two story wooden structure where the great events of the village took place). Annisquam was too small to support or, most likely, to want a newspaper of its own; thus the two papers of Gloucester, a small city a few miles away, printed its news. (ND 2.170)
31 Aug 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to Alasinga Perumal from USA (CW SV 8.319 LSV 1.499 ND 2.109)
31 Aug 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MARY From ANNISQUAM (CW SV 5.040)
1 Sep 1894
CE
Swamiji at Annisquam (second visit) and Boston [1 to 19] (CB SV)
4 Sep 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to Hale Mrs.G W from Annisqam (CW SV 9.038)
4 Sep 1894
News reports
On September 4 the Cape Ann Breeze in a column entitled "Squibs from 'Squam" reminded its readers of the coming event: (ND 2.171)
4 Sep 1894
S
On Tuesday evening, September 4, Swamiji also gave a talk in the little village of Annisquam on "The Religion of India". (LSV 1.511)
Sep 1894
News reports
After the lecture, both the Gloucester Daily Times and the Cape Ann Breeze of September 6 did their best to write it up. Their reports read respectively as follows: (ND 2.171)
5 Sep 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to Bhattaharya Manmatha from Annesquam,USA. (CW SV 7.470 ND 2.172)
5 Sep 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to Hale Mrs.G W from Annisqam (CW SV 9.038)
5 Sep 1894
Lecture
The public meeting held at Calcutta, India on September 5, of 1894 carried the greatest weight of all. (LSV 1.500)
Sep 1894
Letter
The letter Swamiji mentions was undoubtedly the official letter addressed to him by the Chairman and sent to him in accordance with the third Resolution. It was unstinting in its appreciation of his achievement in the West on behalf of India and read in part. Resolutions together with the following letter addressed to Swami Vivekananda. (ND 2.116 LSV 1.501)
Sep 1894
CE
The lectures that were delivered on the occasion by such prominent men as Mr. Nagendranath Ghosh, Sir Surendranath Banerjee, and others created a great wave of spiritual enthusiasm. It was as if the spirit of the Sanatana Dharma (Eternal Religion of the Hindus) were there, thrilling and electrifying the utterances of the speakers. (LSV 1.501)
Sep 1894
Lecture
The following are brief extracts from some of the talks. (LSV 1.502)
Sep 1894
CE
The striking fact was that the name Vivekananda rang with acclaim throughout the length and breadth of India. (LSV 1.504)
Sep 1894
CE
Swamiji was exceedingly happy to learn that behind the success of the Calcutta meeting were the untiring efforts of his brother-disciples Swami Abhedananda, Swami Ramakrishnananda, and others. (LSV 1.505)
Sep 1894
CE
Swamiji's devotees, friends and well wishers in India had repeatedly requested him to return to the Mother land. (LSV 1.505)
Sep 1894
CE
Thus the public meetings held in India in 1894 to honour the Swami and acknowledge the significance of his mission in the West, well served that mission and were of vital importance to its advancement. (LSV 1.507)
Sep 1894
CE
The Swamiji by no means became "inflated with vanity" at the appreciation of his countrymen. (LSV 1.507)
Sep 1894
CE
Even as the Swami had no use for personal fame; so he had no rancour against those who were jealous of it and tried to destroy it. (LSV 1.508)
6 Sep 1894
News reports
News Reports of Indian Mirror on sept. 6, 1894. (ND 2.113)
6 Sep 1894
News reports
Around the 6th of September 1894, the Swamiji left Annisquam for Boston. (LSV 1.511 ND 2.172)
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