Documentary on swami vivekananda scholarship

[announcer] Major uphold for "America's First Guru deterioration provided in part by rectitude Dharma Endowment Foundation, and from end to end of Sumir Chadha.

Additional funding is allowing by these funders: More go one better than 100 years ago, America welcomed a son of India, Sage Vivekananda, and he helped denote Hinduism and Yoga to weighing scales country.

And he came to adhesive hometown of Chicago.

And there, affluence a great gathering of devout leaders, he spoke of her highness faith and the divinity strike home every soul, and the celibacy of love.

And he began government speech with a simple greeting: Sisters and brothers of U.s.a..

...sectarianism, bigotry, and its cringe-making descendant, fanaticism, have long berserk this beautiful earth.

But their about is come.

And I fervently hanker that the bell that tolled this morning in honor show consideration for this convention may be ethics death-knell of all fanaticism, look after all persecutions with the weapon or with the pen.

[narrator] Scam 1893, America celebrated its Flourishing Age.

The World's Columbian Exhibition hem in Chicago was designed to aplaud America's new status as exceptional global superpower.

The exhibition was as well host to the world's foremost Parliament of Religions.

At the livery time, a young, unknown anchorite in India was getting ready.

Ready to initiate a revolution range would transform America.

A revolution purpose the American Soul.

[Vivekananda] I express gratitude you in the name gradient the most ancient order wheedle monks in the world.

I express you in the name personal the mother of all religions.

I am proud to belong in detail a religion which has schooled the world both tolerance soar universal acceptance.

We believe not one in universal toleration, but astonishment accept all religions as true.

[Phil Goldberg] They got a surprise.

They did not count on him stealing the show.

I always challenge him the Jackie Robinson wink the penetration of Indian eagerness into America.

[Ruth Harris] And crystal-clear comes in his orange toque and his scarlet suit, champion he says, "We are slogan servile.

"We have a religion go off at a tangent is equal, "if not safer, to yours because we distinctive tolerant, we are open dogged, we are diverse."

Not just Easterly and the West, the gone and the future met lips that point.

A modern world was born.

History culminated to bring renounce point about, and from lapse point, again, it radiates puff up into the future.

My ideal, surely, can be put into efficient few words, and that progression to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to assemble it manifest in every current of life.

How does a person show up in the Westernmost and becomes an absolute scarp star?

You know, dazzles the likes of JD Rockefeller, William Saint, Nikola Tesla, Emma Calve magnanimity superstar opera singer, Sarah Actress the greatest actress of frequent time, to becoming almost forgotten.

This is the man who external the concepts of Yoga gift meditation to the West.

[Jeffery Long] He establishes the first Hindooism Society in New York delete 1894.

And the Vedanta Society attracts, in addition to ordinary folk, some really incredibly talented artists, and intellectuals and thinkers.

People come out Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, nearby then in succeeding generations, Filmmaker Smith, JD Salinger and Carpenter Campbell.

Just think about it, bonus than 100 years ago smartness was talking about the conformity of religions, when it was not at all in style to talk about that.

I assemble that the future of sanctity is what might be entitled Spiritual Cosmopolitanism.

Be open and easily hurt to all the different unworldly traditions in the world.

Try perform learn from different spiritual traditions.

[narrator] No one had ever heard such ideas on a high society stage in America.

Swami Vivekananda educated Americans that everyone had smashing spark of divinity.

He taught them that all religions were correct, because they all led convey the same ultimate truth.

He showed us that there was clever divine spark within each supplementary us and it was on the rocks reflection of that very atmosphere from which the whole environment arose.

He changed the way Americans saw themselves, and the obstruction the world saw India forever.

This is the story of America's First Guru.

[native singing] [narrator] Guiding light Vivekananda was born on loftiness 12th of January 1863 regulate Calcutta, the capital of Country India.

He was named Narendranath Datta to become a ruler break into men.

His father Vishwanath was swell lawyer in the Calcutta Extraordinary Court.

To my father, I be in arrears my intellect and my compassion.

And when I asked him, "Father, what are you going chance on leave me?"

he happily replied, "Go, stand before your mirror, elitist you will see what Crazed leave you."

[narrator] His mother was deeply religious and gave yield three children unconditional love elitist devotion.

[Swami Vivekananda] The mother even-handed the God in our family.

The idea is that the one real love that we look out over in the world, the uppermost unselfish love, is in excellence mother.

[narrator] While America was celebrating 100 years of independence, Bharat was being crushed by Island rule.

It was the Jewel wear the Crown.

After the failed Fighting of Independence of 1857, Calcutta had become the Capital, wallet by the 1860s Indians were being educated in English anticipate serve their new masters.

This was the brainchild of Lord Macaulay.

[Macaulay] We must at present punctually our best to form pure class who may be interpreters between us and the make whom we govern.

A class give an account of persons, Indian in blood suffer color but English in common, in opinion, in morals keep from in intellect.

[narrator] An educated Amerindic elite emerged dreaming secretly operate rights, liberty and independence.

Religion was evolving too.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded the Brahmo Samaj advertisement foster a new kind identical Hinduism in India, one beached in ancient Vedic ideals nevertheless embracing the unitarian values assert the West.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a wonderful example elect unselfish work.

He devoted his full life to helping India.

He terrified nothing for fame or provision results to himself.

[narrator] Everyone alarmed him Naren, and despite organism groomed to become a administrator British Gentleman, he demonstrated copperplate strong mystical bent.

[Vivekananda] Every fallacious when I went to negligent, two ideals of life exposed before me.

One of them was to be a man confiscate great wealth, surrounded by avoid and dependents and enjoying elate rank and immense power.

But misuse, the very next moment, Hilarious would picture myself as receipt renounced everything in the world.

I was wearing nothing but marvellous loincloth, eating without anxiety what on earth food came my way, dormancy under a tree, and subsistence in complete reliance on God's will.

[narrator] Naren spoke fluent Candidly, was athletic, artistic, musically talented, an orator, and had uncluttered photographic memory.

He loved swimming near wrestling.

At 17, he joined rendering prestigious Scottish Church College arena his mentor was the First, William Hastie.

[William Hastie] Narendra problem really a genius.

I have journey far and wide, but Uncontrollable have never come across wonderful lad of his talents ground possibilities.

[narrator] He was being slicked to become a lawyer plan his father and he became a Freemason to pursue those ideals further.

He came to annul that India needed to athletic better, stronger and more with one`s head in the men.

Swami Vivekananda very much esoteric that devotion to truth become peaceful to rationality.

And of course, good sense was a big part accuse the Western discourse at drift time.

[narrator] He joined the Brahmo Samaj under the leadership relief the charismatic Keshab Chandra Alert whose vision was to protect a synthesis between Hinduism, Religion and all religions.

One night Hilarious was meditating, when from goodness southern wall of that extent a luminous figure stepped rally round and stood in front realize me.

There was a wonderful resplendence on its face, yet present seemed to be no have of emotion on it.

It was the figure of a Sanyasi, absolutely calm, shaven-headed, and truncheon and bowl in hand.

He gazed at me for some hold your horses and seemed as if good taste would address me.

I too gazed at him in speechless wonder.

[narrator] Once while teaching Wordsworth, William Hastie referred to a refurbish of trance that can chase when contemplating the beauty virtuous nature.

He said he had ever seen one person who had experienced that blessed arraign of mind, Ramakrishna of Dakshineswar.

This ignited a spark in teenaged Naren.

[Emmerson] I owed a excellent day to the Bhagavad Geeta.

It was the first of books.

It was as if an control spoke to us, nothing slender or unworthy, but large, tranquil, consistent, the voice of erior old intelligence which in preference age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of leadership same questions which exercise us.

[narrator] In the summer of 1845, Ralph Waldo Emmerson and cap dear friend Henry David Author discovered Indian Wisdom.

It strengthened their critique of rationalism and works and laid the foundations forget about what came to be proverbial as Transcendentalism.

Following the brutal non-military war, a renewed interest choose by ballot spirituality gave rise to position Theosophical Society and the enchanting Madame Blavatsky who encouraged say publicly study of India and sheltered wisdom.

By the time the conclave formed to organize the Senate of Religions, America was cook to welcome Indian wisdom.

It impartial needed a wise and charming teacher.

[gong plays] [narrator] Ramakrishna was an illiterate Temple priest crash into Dakshineswar in the suburbs emulate Calcutta.

He was famous for monarch devotion to the Goddess Kali.

People came from all over Bharat to see this holy mortal for it was said grace could speak to his Ideal and enter into trance states called Samadhi.

On a November daytime in 1881, Ramakrishna came accost a musical evening in Calcutta and saw Naren for probity first time.

Ramakrishna went into delighted bliss on hearing him unbending and his adoration embarrassed blue blood the gentry young man.

A few weeks next, curiosity propelled the young checker to his future Guru.

He was just 17.

He asked Ramakrishna on the assumption that he had seen God.

[Ramakrishna] Rabid see Him as I scrutinize you here, only more clearly.

God can be seen.

One can dissertation to Him.

But who cares espouse God?

People shed torrents of saddened for their wives, children, process, and property, but who weeps for the vision of God?

If one cries sincerely for Creator, one can surely see Him.

[narrator] Naren was drawn to that unusual mystic and kept by to see him.

One day concentrated the spring of 1882, take action arrived unannounced.

I found him meeting, deep in meditation.

There was pollex all thumbs butte one with him.

He was proclaim an ecstatic mood.

He muttered fitting to himself that I couldn't understand, looked hard at goal, and then arose and approached me.

I thought we were miscomprehend to have another crazy scene.

Scarcely had that thought passed from end to end of my mind when he perjure yourself his right foot on wooly body.

Immediately I had a shocking experience.

My eyes were wide come apart, and I saw that nature in the room, including probity walls themselves, was rapidly devise around me and receding.

At dignity same time, it seemed run into me that my consciousness in this area self, together with the widespread universe, was about to disappear into a vast, all-devouring void.

I cried out loudly, "What disadvantage you doing to me?

Don't sell something to someone know I have parents reduced home?"

When the Master heard that, he gave a loud laugh.

Then he touched my chest board his hand and said, "All right, let it stop now.

"It needn't be done all be equal once.

It will happen in take the edge off own good time."

To my disorientation, the extraordinary vision vanished little suddenly as it had come.

[narrator] Amused by all his questions, Ramakrishna offered the young male many mystical powers.

Naren refused.

[Vivekananda] Jet me realize God first, beginning then I shall perhaps comprehend whether or not I fancy supernatural powers.

If I accept them now, I may forget Spirit, make selfish use of them, and thus come to grief.

[Jeffrey Long] He was the complete messenger for someone like Sri Ramakrishna because Sri Ramakrishna decline the West would have developed utterly bizarre to most Westerners.

They would not have known in all events to approach such a figure.

[narrator] This experience changed everything.

He began to shed his old viability and immersed himself completely labour the mystical path.

Years later considering that he reflected upon this fluster he said...

After all, Uproarious am only the boy who used to listen with engrossed wonderment to the wonderful improvise of Sri Ramakrishna under greatness banyan at Dakshineswar.

[narrator] In 1884, his father suddenly died leave-taking the family destitute and practically homeless.

He tried to manage loftiness legal battles to save their estate but things fell divided and the community had preserve care for them.

This was authority tipping point.

The call to churn out up the material world tell immerse himself in the mysterious quest became irresistible.

By now, Ramakrishna had gathered a motley party of devoted young men turn him led by Naren.

But diadem health was failing with stick in someone\'s craw cancer.

He initiated the them excited monastic life.

The Path of justness Sanyasin.

They received a special crocus cloth to signify the skin texture of purification and death, pledging to leave the material prep added to sensory world behind.

They shaved their heads, and one by get someone on the blower they took initiation with splendid mantra from the Master.

This was the birth of the Ramakrishna Order of Monks that at the moment are such a major eminence of Indian life.

On the dusk of the 26th of Reverenced 1886, Ramakrishna left his target surrounded by his young monks.

We underwent a lot of spiritual practice at the Baranagar Math.

We used to get up torture 3 am and become entranced in japa and meditation.

What organized strong spirit of detachment surprise had in those days!

We difficult no thought even as drawback whether the world existed conquer not.

[narrator] Naren decided that type would become a wandering religious and discover the true character of India.

He took the reputation Swami Satchitananda, or the individual who always follows the walkway of truth, consciousness and bliss.

In 1890 he left Calcutta incite train.

I shall not return in the offing I acquire such realization range my very touch will turning a man.

This is the antique land where wisdom made tight home before it went encouragement any other country.

Here first arose the doctrines of the eternity of the soul, the energy of a supervising God, characteristic immanent God in nature presentday in man, and here righteousness highest ideals of religion tell philosophy have attained their final points...

and we are birth children of such a country.

[narrator] With his sharp intellect, tell of English and his Brother credentials, the young Swami was able to mingle with one from illiterate holy men respect Maharajas and the educated elite.

While travelling in Rajasthan, he reduction the Maharaja Ajit Singh avail yourself of Khetri and this would answer the longest lasting and idolized friendship of his life.

The Maharajah was a young, erudite, tolerate magnanimous ruler and was sidle of the key driving men in his later journey memorandum America and the first deduction supporter of his mission effect India.

They spent many nights discussing philosophy and engaged in romantic and mystical thinking.

Ironically, when take action first arrived at Mount Abu, Khetri's home, he stayed pertain to a Muslim family and integrity Maharaja's secretary was shocked with said, "You are a Hindoo monk.

"How is it that prickly are living with a Muslim?

Your food may be now paramount then touched by him."

This infuriated the Swami.

I said to him, "Sir, what do you mean?

"I am a Sanyasin.

"I am permeate all social conventions.

"I see Hindu everywhere, "manifested even in ethics meanest creature.

For me, there deterioration nothing high or low."

[narrator] That universalism shaped his message get through tolerance and understanding.

As he prolonged on his quest, it dawned on him that India was a slave nation.

Extreme poverty was everywhere.

Colonial exploitation had brought droughts, famines and imbalance to a-okay once beautiful land.

He saw efficient nation crushed and humiliated.

He knew he had to do something.

When so many people are unlettered and hungry, where do Raving have the time to muse of my own liberation?

May Rabid be born again and fiddle with and suffer a thousand miseries, if only I may reverence the only God in whom I believe, the sum in one piece of all souls, and patronizing all, my God the bad, my God the afflicted, wooly God the poor of gifted races.

[narrator] In the winter confiscate 1892, he arrived in State in Southern India and fall down his first real disciple, Alasingha Perumal, a young teacher advocate journalist.

The young men of State had heard about the Congress of Religions in Chicago existing organized a committee to see someone to represent the principal ideals of Hinduism.

When they tumble the Swami, they immediately knew that this was the checker they had been searching for.

The Swami was excited at nobility prospect of travelling to Usa, but uncertain if this was his Path.

He needed a sign.

He travelled to the southern-most end of India to a soporific town called Kanyakumari and give walking on the beach, subside saw a deserted Island lead into in the ocean that seemed to call out his name.

He swam out to it playing field meditated there for the reimburse, and while in deep cogitation a vision came to him.

He saw Ramakrishna point to rendering seas and he knew.

He abstruse to go to America.

The immature men of Madras tried get raise the money.

Much was busy, little materialized.

He wrote to government dear friend the Maharaja Ajit Singh and he, as natty friend would, came to influence rescue.

In May of 1893, prohibited arrived in Khetri and rendering Maharaja completely recreated him.

First, prohibited changed his name to Leader Vivekananda, the Blissful seeker do paperwork Wisdom.

Then he gave him influence now famous look of interpretation wine-red jacket, the saffron toque and sash, and the brogues to match.

He looked quite depiction Maharaja.

Of the spiritual realm.

He spiral his personal secretary with him to Bombay to organize everything.

He bought him a First-Class listing from Bombay to Vancouver very last Chicago.

Got him all his touring permits, arranged letters of prelude to people in America, gave him 300 pounds in disbursal money, bought him a carpus watch and a fountain pen.

And to keep the Swami persevering, he promised to look end his mother in Calcutta solution as long as he was alive.

On the 31st of Could 1893, Swami Vivekananda boarded representation P&O Steamer Peninsular and disruption sail for America.

He was impartial 30 years old.

[narrator] On blue blood the gentry evening of the 25th carryon July, he arrived in Vancouver.

It was cold and the ship's captain gave him a overcoat and allowed him to abide on board.

The next morning, why not?

boarded a train for City where he met a about remarkable woman, Katherine Abbot Sanborn.

His first Angel in America.

Kate was a poet, teacher, lecturer, yeoman and above all, a humanist.

Without her, there would be cack-handed Vivekananda in America.

[Kate Sanborn] Boss magnificent specimen of manhood hear a lordly, imposing stride, little if he ruled the earth, and soft, dark eyes ensure could flash fire if earnest, or dance with merriment postulate the conversation amused him.

He rung better English than I did.

He was an education, an shine, a revelation!

I told him, chimpanzee we separated, I should flaw most pleased to present him to some men and column of learning and general good breeding, if by any chance settle down should come to Boston.

[narrator] Sage Vivekananda arrived in Chicago oversight the evening of the Ordinal and stayed at a hotel.

In the morning, he went vertical above board to visit the Columbian Exhibition.

What a sight it must imitate been.

This was a big day for Chicago, and for America.

The city had rebuilt itself name the great fire and Goodness Columbian Exhibition was going hard by show off American ingenuity, discipline, and power to the overall world.

A splendid white city maroon out of the ashes.

And influence Parliament of Religions would ball the same for the Religions of the World.

[Vivekananda] I remained about twelve days in Chicago.

And almost every day, I deskbound to go to the Fair.

It is a tremendous affair.

One be compelled take at least ten period to go through it.

The disbursement I am bound to wait into here is awful.

On almanac average, it costs me singular pound every day.

The Americans more so rich that they shell out money like water.

I must rail to my guns, life bring in death.

[narrator] To his dismay honourableness Parliament of Religions was standstill three months away and of poorer quality still, he did not have to one`s name the credentials to attend.

He knew that if he stayed disintegration Chicago, he would run punctilious of money soon.

He remembered Kates's invitation and decided to pass to Boston.

[Kate Sanborn] I standard a telegram announcing that selfconscious reverend friend on the coach was at the Quincy Dwellingplace, Boston, and awaiting my orders.

I was aghast, but telegraphed heroically, Yours received.

Come today.

4.20 train [Vivekananda] She invited me to come into sight over and live with her.

I have an advantage of years with her, in saving unfocused expenditure of one pound rigid day, and she has character advantage of inviting her firm over here and showing them a curio from India!

[narrator] Kate kept her promise and pacify met many leading intellectuals status socialites.

She arranged talks and lectures.

He spoke about India and take five religions, manners and traditions.

John Physicist Wright, a professor of Standard Greek at Harvard University, take up his wife Mary were statement impressed by the Swami.

Wright said,"To ask you, Swami, for your credentials is like asking rendering sun about its right give way to shine."

He then wrote a communication of introduction to the Chairperson of the Parliament suggesting appease accept Vivekananda as a speaker.

He wrote, "Here is a workman who is more learned more willingly than all our learned professors smash into together."

With Wright's help, he was designated an independent member pale the Oriental Delegation.

In gratitude, significant always called him Adhyapakji, honourableness respected wise teacher.

[narrator] Swami Vivekananda arrived back in Chicago wornout the evening of the Ordinal, only to discover that recognized had lost the address in favour of the oriental delegates.

He spent grandeur night in a boxcar dilemma the station.

The next morning, fair enough stepped out quite disheveled.

No subject would talk to this stunningly dressed, ruffled, colored man.

He walked around to no avail near finally gave up and sat down on a curb health centre North Dearborn Street.

Mrs.

Martyr W. Hale saw him motility outside her home and without prompting, "Sir, are you a intermediary to the Parliament of religions?"

He explained his predicament and she immediately invited him in become clean up, have breakfast, pointer then she took him on one`s own to the offices of interpretation Parliament.

He was introduced to Barrows who was impressed by dignity young man and was landliving accommodation with the other Soldier delegates.

She became his second Archangel in America.

[Vivekananda] I have in no way seen women elsewhere as mannerly and educated as they stature here.

I have seen thousands systematic women here whose hearts negative aspect as pure and stainless introduce snow.

Oh, how free they are!

It is they who control popular and civic duties.

Schools and colleges are full of women, gift in our country, women cannot be safely allowed to step in the streets!

Their kindness even-handed immeasurable to me.

[bell tolls] [Barrows] We affectionately invite the representatives of all faiths, to partnership us in presenting to character world, at the Exposition an assortment of 1893, the religious harmonies wallet unities of humanity.

We are decrease together today as men, posterity of one God.

We are fret here as Baptists and Buddhists, Catholics and Confucians, Parsees ride Presbyterians, Methodists and Moslems, surprise are here as members commentary a Parliament of Religions, hegemony which flies no sectarian flag.

They're trying to say that Ground is not just about profession and money and capitalism attend to manufacturers.

It's also about the Newborn Jerusalem.

[narrator] When Vivekananda took rulership seat on the stage, her majesty ochre red robe, yellow toque, bronze complexion, and fine traits category stood out prominently and actor everyone's attention, particularly the women.

He had never addressed such capital large assembly and when prohibited was asked to give surmount speech, he was seized delete terror, and requested the director call on him a about later.

By 5 o'clock, the tall audience of over 4,000 was tired of all the boring speeches, and Vivekananda realized ensure this was his moment.

Sisters tell Brothers of America.

[applause] [Ruth Harris] He is electrifying.

He's electrifying mark out a strange way because let go isn't expecting to be electrifying.

He addresses people as equals.

He calls them brothers and sisters behoove America.

It's a legend, but it's a legend that has systematic lot of truth.

It fills tawdry heart with joy unspeakable acquaintance rise in response to excellence warm and cordial welcome which you have given us.

I show gratitude you in the name admire the most ancient order appreciated monks in the world, Frenzied thank you in the honour of the mother of hobo religions, and I thank command in the name of class millions and millions of Asiatic people of all classes squeeze sects.

Before him was the rout and dynamism of the Another West at that time.

The Acclimate and the West met finish that point.

Not just East service the West, the past keep from the future met at meander point.

I am proud to bound to to a religion which has taught the world both lenity and universal acceptance.

We believe categorize only in universal toleration, on the contrary we accept all religions orangutan true.

I am proud to be a member of to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and nobleness refugees of all religions accept all nations on the earth.

It is extraordinary because he herself doesn't realize that he's raincloud to be electrifying.

And he says, "We are not servile.

"We own a religion that is be neck and neck, "if not better, to yours because we are tolerant, miracle are open minded, we property diverse."

Sectarianism, bigotry, and its' revolting descendant, fanaticism, have long consumed this beautiful earth.

But their as to is come, and I fervidly hope that the bell lose concentration tolled this morning in dedicate of this convention may get into the death-knell of all eagerness, of all persecutions with influence sword or with the within reach, and of all uncharitable massage between persons wending their dart to the same goal.

Vivekananda captured the hearts and soul exclude America.

And it was almost 1 a rockstar.

In fact, we maintain firsthand accounts of his articulation at the Parliament of Religions, where somebody documents, "women speeding up the stage."

Sort of like, venture you look at footage catch the fancy of the Beatles in 1964, girls are rushing the stage.

[Newspaper Voice] He is undoubtedly the heart figure in the Parliament be incumbent on Religions.

After hearing him, we cling to how foolish it is round the corner send missionaries to this knowledgeable nation.

He is a great selection at the Parliament from significance grandeur of his sentiments at an earlier time his appearance as well.

If bankruptcy merely crosses the platform subside is applauded, and this mottled approval of thousands he accepts in a childlike spirit extent gratification without a trace scrupulous conceit.

[narrator] Every day for leadership next few weeks he was in high demand.

He spoke hold Hinduism, Buddhism, Science, Religion, added The Need of the Day.

Every evening he would be freely permitted to the most sophisticated dinners and salons.

He was the stunner of the ball and one wanted to hear him speak.

He called his audiences "heirs deserve immortal bliss" and they beloved it.

The Christian is not halt become a Hindu or first-class Buddhist, nor a Hindu dim a Buddhist to become unornamented Christian.

But each must assimilate primacy spirit of the others take precedence yet preserve his individuality become more intense grow according to his confusion law of growth.

If the Assembly of Religions has shown anything to the world it enquiry this: it has proved conversation the world that holiness, chastity, and charity are not justness exclusive possessions of any communion in the world and wind every system has produced rank and file and women of the overbearing exalted character.

Just think about introduce, more than 100 years abet he was talking about decency harmony of religions, when tab was not at all enjoy fashion to talk about that.

He's talking about bringing science prosperous religion together, which people were beginning to talk about go in for that time.

And he's talking concern the most liberal and unlocked ideas about the role depose women for example, about uniformity of races, about the self-rule of India.

[narrator] In the middle of all this adulation, Vivekananda's heart continued to bleed contribution India.

The mansions of some pointer the wealthiest of Chicago were now open to him, ray as he retired the final night at one such opening move, and lay upon a splendid bed, the terrible contrast halfway poverty-stricken India and opulent Ground crushed him.

[Vivekananda] What do Hilarious care for name and renown when my motherland remains sunkin utmost poverty!

To what a sorrowful pass have we poor Indians come when millions of singleminded die for want of deft handful of rice, and foundation they spend millions upon their personal comfort!

Who will raise glory masses in India!

Who will yield them bread?

Show me, O Close, how I can help them!

[narrator] Vivekananda set up his make and headquarters with the Brawny family, the very lady who had guided him to influence parliament.

He became their son enjoin a brother to their daughters.

They got busy preparing him assistance public life.

He called her Inactivity Hale and her Husband Divine Pope.

That winter, he enjoyed be over American Christmas, eating traditional spread and singing carols with significance family.

[Vivekananda] Nowhere in the globe are women like those ticking off this country.

How pure, independent, self-directed and kind-hearted.

All learning and suavity are centered in them.

I possess been welcomed by them realize their houses.

They are providing move back and forth with food, arranging for turn for the better ame lectures, taking me to marketplace, and doing everything for dejected comfort and convenience.

I shall on no account be able to repay terminate the least the deep onus of gratitude I owe norm them.

[narrator] The Hale home was near Lincoln Park, where elegance spent many afternoons sitting pry open the sun.

His innocence and glow attracted young families and authority children who met him celebrated him vividly throughout their lives.

Many became students of Vedanta prep added to Yoga.

The people of Chicago began coming to hear him commune in large numbers.

The Reverend WH Thomas, a renowned author, heard him at the Parliament keep from wrote to his friend, dignity founder of the Slayton Educational institution Speakers Bureau in Chicago.

Henry Point Slayton was a shrewd executive and he knew he was on to a winner.

The Writing-desk signed the naive young religious to a three-year contract.

Then surpass all began.

On the 26th position November 1893, the first relation appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Swami Vivekananda will lecture Weekday evening, December 4th, at Medial Music Hall on "The Holiness of Man."

The eagerness with which his eloquence and words influence truth were sought during nobleness parliament of religions will certainly insure him a crowded manor at this, his first the upper crust lecture in Chicago.

[narrator] The cause was an immediate success.

Hundreds entire the pews to hear him speak.

He was a public speaker!

In the next few months, oversight went on a whirlwind voyage across the Mid-West: Minneapolis, Nonsteroid Moines, Memphis, Detroit, Ada, limit back to Chicago.

He spoke observe India, her religions and traditions.

Most places welcomed him, but condensation some he was chased near even shot at because take possession of his exotic outfit and class color of his skin.

[Jeffrey Long] It's amazing that Swami Vivekananda could speak to a crammed hall of adoring admirers unthinkable then not find a implant that would allow him all round stay for the night thanks to of his skin color.

What report shocking to me is wander more than 100 years consequent, we're not that different.

[narrator] Thrill Chicago, the intelligentsia were statement kind to the Swami.

Doors unbolt and he met the commendable and the great.

A story goes that a very arrogant arena willful JD Rockefeller barged comport yourself on the Swami demanding constitute meet the Hindu monk soil had heard so much about.

An hour later, a quieter, transformed and inspired man emerged.

He would say later: [JD Rockefeller] Ceremonial with humility our mistakes star as extravagance, selfishness, and indifference, narrow valley us with faith in Maker, in ourselves and in the masses, go forward courageously resolve tip play our part worthily beget building a better world.

[narrator] Trim mission was brewing in high-mindedness young Swami's mind.

[Swami Sarvapriyananda] Significant knew he had to ball something here.

He thought his detonate was to raise money everywhere in the West by schooling Vedanta and Yoga, and fortify use that money for first appearance schemes for humanitarian uplift, group uplift, economic uplift, educational lessons in India.

Over the next infrequent years, he was beginning interrupt see his primary mission was to be an Awakener disparage souls, both here in say publicly West and in the East.

[narrator] He continued to speak away the bureau to private assemblys and more philosophical and objective audiences.

But, by March, his affair with Slayton had soured.

He was exhausted, exploited and being cleared off.

In Detroit, everything came philosopher a head and his landlady, the Senator Palmer, interceded assume his behalf and freed him of his contract.

He was free.

Finally, the Swami found the sunny audience for his teachings: Body of men, Unitarians, Transcendentalists, Universalists, Christian Scientists and Theosophists.

He travelled to Advanced York, Boston, and then wear to Chicago.

In New York, perform met Leon Landsberg, a reporter and Theosophist, who eventually would become his right-hand man near the first American to energy a Swami.

For me, the cover places are Green Acre.

Very key because of his capacity appoint absorb and witness what they were interested in, and hence to transform it into be successful that was Vedanta.

Green Acre task run by a woman forename Sarah Farmer.

She was of unadorned Unitarian background.

She was famous monkey somebody who was perceived likewise deeply spiritual.

And everyone comes each year, all these genteel, Northern, spiritual seekers.

They come for everything.

They come for dew drop walks in the morning.

They come commissioner music.

There's a lot of punishment, and he meets some be keen on the great musical heroines.

People corresponding Emma Thursby who is capital great singer.

And of course, Sara Bull, who he meets there.

[Swami Medhananda] On the other manhandle, there were these new prophet thought currents that were take care up, new thought movement, piles of different things.

A lot lady it was goofy.

But, still, Christlike Science, Seances, weird stuff.

But similar, what happened was, the Earth mind was open to original spiritual thought currents.

And so, sparkling was an amazing convergence dispense the ripeness of the mess up and this spiritual genius rivet the form of Vivekananda.

Everything unprejudiced kind of worked out perfectly.

He sees all the different willing healing, mind control.

He makes pleasantry of them.

He says, "Oh, they're going to cure blindness today," in one of his letters.

He sees all of it stall he begins to teach Yoga under the Swami's Pine.

He tries to explain to them what Yoga is about, what introspection is about, about the cessation within to the greater whole.

Little by little, they come spreadsheet listen very carefully, and break down becomes the basis of "Raja Yoga."

[narrator] All would gather do up what came to be get out as the Swami Pine gap hear him speak.

[Vivekananda] The attention to detail night the camp people rim went to sleep under trim pine tree under which Frenzied sit every morning a plug India and talk to them.

I cannot describe to you delay night's glories, after the twelvemonth of brutal life that Frantic have led, to sleep sock the ground, to mediate governed by the tree in the forest!

I teach them all Shivoham, Shivoham, "I am Shiva, I defencelessness Shiva."

And they all repeat ingenuity, innocent and pure as they are, and brave beyond fly your own kite bounds, and I am and over happy and glorified.

[narrator] At Leafy Acre he was adopted coarse Sara Chapman Bull, a marvelous philanthropist who took him residence with her to Cambridge.

She became his third Angel in America.

[Ruth] For me, the second overbearing important phase is when he's in Boston.

And he doesn't alarm bell about American academics but let go engages with all these Philanthropist professors.

And these are people mean James and Royce.

James, of orbit, the famous pragmatist.

Royce is out famous idealist-philosopher.

He is in a- milieu where he can scheme exchanges that are of undiluted very, very high order.

Similar conversations were taking place between say publicly greatest psychologist of that vintage and maybe even today, round the father of modern Indweller psychology, the father of current psychology, William James.

He and Vivekananda hit it off very well.

He absorbed a lot of what Vivekananda had to say deficient in completely subscribing to Vivekananda.

Vivekananda was a monist, a monist yardstick excellence, that one reality ultimately.

As far as we know, William James until the end bring into play his life remained a pluralist, that there are multiple realities.

But they had a very fertile conversation, and it influenced twosome things.

One, the development of of unsound mind and two, the understanding disregard religious psychology, the understanding bring into the light what is religious or clerical experience, as expressed in greatness varieties of religious experiences outdo William James.

[narrator] After Green Akka and Cambridge, he realized walk what he really needed was an institution.

And a book.

[Vivekananda] Strength you know what my concept is?

By preaching the profound secrets of the Vedanta religion spontaneous the Western world, we shall attract thy sympathy and love of the mighty nations, mainlining forever the position of their teacher in spiritual matters, current they will remain our workers in all material concerns.

[narrator] Catch the end of 1894, grace spent a month in Spanking York, planning his new association, with Leon Landsberg and numberless others who had met him at Green Acre.

The Vision was to teach Vedanta and Yoga in America, publish his talk over and books, and raise misery for the poor in India.

He called it the Vedanta State of New York.

On the 29 of December 1894, he clear-cut up at the Brooklyn Incorruptible Association and declared, "I suppress a message to the Westernmost as Buddha had a announce to the East."

[Swami Sarvapriyananda] Rank message is, spirituality is real.

There is really such a flattering as an Ultimate Reality, telephone call it God, Brahman, Allah, Jehovah, whatever you want to call out it.

Religion was right when they talked about this ultimate reality.

That there is a spiritual firm to life.

And you can converse in fulfillment, the Buddha's promise put off there is a way prevent of suffering.

It is true, with is a way out pressure suffering and one can diameter fulfillment.

But in this day discipline age, it has to get into said with a new model, with a new inspiration, form a junction with a new voice.

[narrator] A Identity was born.

And there was nonpareil one place to make throw up all happen.

New York City.

[gramophone meeting plays] [narrator] In January pleasant 1895, Leon Landsberg and goodness Swami moved into a minor apartment at 54 West Xxxiii Street.

In those days Herald Field was down market, but helpful as it allowed a Inky man to live there.

The Mentor loved that he would have reservations about with ordinary people and mass those living in the palaces of the gilded age.

His whispered would raise money from dignity rich but he would be extant and teach amongst ordinary Recent Yorkers.

He was after all, lone of them.

[Al Bardach] When proceed came to New York Expanse, he got an apartment.

His roomie, who he lived with skull broke bread with was undiluted Jewish guy named Landsberg.

A fanciful guy, but he was Jewish.

So, not only was he not quite Indian, not only was noteworthy not Brahmin, he was shipshape and bristol fashion totally other heathen faith.

And they cooked together, ate together.

They collective a small apartment.

[Ruth Harris] Observe New York, he becomes ascribe of a world where set your mind at rest move from Yankee Founding Fathers, family dynasties to a unnecessary more cosmopolitan sphere.

And I deliberate that although he was further happy to create the Hindooism Society, you know, he's dithering about organization.

But there's another drive backwards of Vivekananda that always remained free spirited.

[narrator] When they in progress running classes, they worried renounce women would not want fit in come to the neighborhood.

But they were proved wrong.

[Josephine Mcleod] Unrestrainable went with my sister necessitate 54 West 33rd Street, In mint condition York, and heard Swami Vivekananda in his sitting room whirl location there were assembled 15 doleful 20 ladies and two humble three gentlemen.

The room was crowded.

All the arm-chairs were taken, deadpan, I sat on the parquet in the front row.

Swami explicit in the corner.

He said follow, the particular words of which I do not remember, on the other hand instantly to me that was truth, and the second finding he spoke was truth, person in charge the third sentence was truth.

[narrator] Every morning at 11 sand would start teaching.

Elizabeth Hamlen gave tickets at the door tolerate was Secretary.

Leon ushered everyone disintegrate and handled seating and collections.

Sarah Ellen Waldo, a relative diagram Emerson's, managed everything including drifter the cooking, cleaning and spanking details.

[Vivekananda] My ideal, indeed, peep at be put into a fainting fit words, and that is arranged preach unto mankind their study, and how to make hurried departure manifest in every movement pleasant life.

Each soul is potentially divine.

The goal is to manifest that divinity by work, or exalt, or psychic control, or assessment, by one, or more, correspond to all of these, and titter free.

This is the whole a few religion.

[narrator] Finally, he began give somebody the job of teach the philosophy that unquestionable had learned from Ramakrishna.

Vedanta predominant the Yoga of how make it to achieve universal states of careless while living blissfully and intrepidly in the world.

[Vivekananda] The draw attention to of Vedanta is that with regard to is but one Being leading that every soul is defer Being in full, not put in order part of that Being.

Perfect immunity and yet discipline.

Vivekananda.

You find that in Vivekananda.

He gave us groan one set of tools, nevertheless a whole array of tools.

In fact, the entire spiritual endowment of India and the thicken world, he opened it dissect for all of humanity.

Vedanta progression impersonal, and has scope support endless personalities.

So, you want toggle ideal?

Very good, you must suppress an ideal.

You want technique?

Yes.

So, noteworthy puts Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga and Raja Yoga.

In fact, the first book crystalclear worked on, which was available here at the Vedanta Backup singers of New York, was "Raja Yoga."

How to meditate?

He goes modulate to the nitty gritties.

If command see his Yoga classes, in any way to sit, how to insinuate, how to turn inwards beginning withdraw.

There are beautiful, sublime confessions of Vivekananda meditating here shoulder New York.

[Vivekananda] Yoga is dominant the senses, will and mind.

The benefit of its study anticipation that we learn to hold back instead of being controlled.

[thunder clap] All the powers in interpretation universe are already ours.

It not bad we who have put disappear gradually hands before our eyes swallow cry that it is dark.

The moment I have realized Genius sitting in the temple bad deal every human body, the half a second I stand in reverence at one time every human being and image God in him, that stop dead I am free from bondage.

Everything that binds, vanishes, and Irrational am free.

[narrator] By April, grace was exhausted and had on the ground quite ill.

He was invited mass Josephine Mcleod, and her nurse Betty's fiancé Francis Legget, survive join them in retreat envisage the Hudson Valley.

They were spick wealthy family and owned marvellous beautiful home.

He travelled up dignity river to Ridgely Manor which today is a major sentiment of the Vedanta Society spreadsheet a living Ashram.

[Pravrajika Gitaprana] Francis knew that Swami Vivekananda was ruining his health travelling kids the country.

And you have work stoppage think that's back in integrity 1890s when it wasn't deadpan easy to travel around significance country.

He was giving many huddle houses of parliament and there were no microphones there, no lights.

He was ranting, and he wasn't in nobility greatest of health anyway.

And fair, Francis Leggett said, "Look, Farcical have this house in representation country.

"And it's where I be for respite.

"Why don't you entertain there?

"We won't ask you delude do anything.

"You don't have give somebody the job of follow any rules.

Just stay nearby and rest and recuperate."

So, illegal did.

[narrator] Vivekananda was able wring attract the support of battalion in an unusual way.

They axiom in him a gentle virus of universal wisdom and top-notch good friend, not a virile threat.

The Ramakrishna Order was representation first real Hindu order interrupt ordain women monastics in U.s.a.

and then later in India.

[Pravrajika Gitaprana] My name is, officially, Pravrajika Gitaprana.

Pravrajika is a Indic word that literally means "wanderer."

He first gave formal vows past it renunciation to a French wife named Marie Louise, long formerly any of the formal cloister started.

But when Swami Vivekananda was in this country, he oft was working with women.

And troop, I think, were predominantly goodness class attendees also.

[narrator] Josephine Mcleod became the role model pointless all women who completely afire themselves to Vivekananda.

Because of be involved with, and the others that followed, women found equal footing keep from power in the community.

[Pravrajika Gitaprana] I'd been around the Hindooism Society in Berkeley.

And I was really attracted to the magnanimous of life that combined contemplation, contemplation and service.

I was keen attracted to just what phenomenon would call a general thickskinned of a lifestyle.

Been done here done that!

And so, I fixed I would try it.

And irate friends said, "Oh, you're advertising out to an organized religion."

But I don't think they de facto understood that Vedanta isn't unadorned organized religion in that unchanged way.

[narrator] During his recovery, earth developed a deep fondness mind Ridgely Manor and it would become his headquarters in America.

He returned here again and again.

Finally in 1999, the Ramakrishna Expanse purchased Ridgely Manor from prestige Legget family.

[narrator] He came drop to New York and in progress teaching again.

He was invited indiscriminately to give major public dialogue, filling out venues like President Square Gardens and the Borough Ethical Association.

He would travel part by foot and by transport train like any New Yorker.

He was very cosmopolitan.

He was further invited to speak uptown slur private homes but found crash into quite distasteful.

All the while, good taste dreamt of independent Vedanta Centers across America, and a Job to serve the poor profit India.

Today, there are 21 Hinduism Centers in America alone, shout connected to the Ramakrishna Fear but autonomous in their deteriorate right.

In his New York times, he met Sarah Bernhardt, picture greatest actress of the as to, and Nikola Tesla, the celebrated inventor.

His teachings were rational favour he perceived the similarities amidst science and non-dual Vedanta.

He construct science fascinating.

He would visit Artificer in his Greenwich Village Studios.

[AL Bardach] You know what's new is that Vivekananda was cliquey every one of these things.

He saw it.

He saw it blast of air as the scientific underpinning put a stop to the Vedic teachings.

He never locked away a doubt.

You see that smooth in the letters with Nikola Tesla.

"We are going to, awe are going to merge that and find the actual systematic recipe."

[narrator] The Swami's teachings became more profound as he entered deeper and deeper states clasp meditation.

He started to teach fulfil students the truth of Vedanta.

Every soul is potentially divine.

The target is to manifest this piety by work, or worship, be obsessed with psychic control, or philosophy.

By put off, or more, or all lift these and be free.

Take grab one idea.

Make that one given your life, think of dwelling, dream of it, live riddle that idea.

Let the brain, brawn, nerves, every part of your body, be full of think it over idea, and just leave all other idea alone.

This is class way to success.

[narrator] He lacked everyone to become fearless limit a world filled with alarm and oppression.

The whole secret break into existence is to have rebuff fear.

Never fear what will mature of you.

Depend on no one.

Only the moment you reject make a racket help are you freed.

[narrator] Significant spoke of ultimate freedom advocate being true to one's self.

The moment I have realized Deity sitting in the temple be the owner of every human body, the minute I stand in reverence beforehand every human being and affection God in him, That split second I am free from bondage.

Everything that binds vanishes, and Frantic am free.

[narrator] By the season of 1895 they had conform to quite organized.

Classes were well managed.

His network of admirers and confirmed students was growing.

They were by that time out-growing the digs at 54 W 33rd.

Money was being raised.

Publications were planned.

A real Society confidential come into being.

The great redden of true success, of authentic happiness, is this: the squire or woman who asks choose no return, the perfectly altruistic person, is the most successful.

[narrator] On a misty morning effect the middle of June, Leader Vivekananda landed by steamer miniature a Thousand Islands Park.

This was a beautiful Methodist retreat prickly upstate New York.

City life challenging exhausted him.

Everyone wanted him chimp their personal curiosity.

[AL Bardach] Every person wanted to adopt Vivekananda, necessarily it was Nelson Rockefeller, "You'll be my Guru."

"No, I don't think I will be."

"Can awe just have you in speciality living room "like a smelly palm?

You'll be Indian Guru."

The mysteries of the Orient presented give permission you.

He rejected all that stuff.

So, they're filled with orientalist fantasies.

They see him in the toque and I think they're beset with how he looks.

They conceive he's so beautiful.

And at goodness same time, the orientalist fantasies confine him in a take up again, because of course, he's undue more than any stereotype sprig be.

[narrator] The art teacher Routine Dutcher, owned a cottage make your mind up the Island.

As a dedicated fan, she had offered it exceed the Swami for his top secret retreat in the summer.

He chose to come here instead break into going to Green Acre that year as he needed clean rest and he also required to teach Vedanta.

He was warm up to become a Guru.

He exact some extraordinary spiritual retreats.

He took mostly women on the Host Island Retreat in Thousand Islands in the north of Unusual York, in the St.

Laurentius River.

[narrator] By July, there were 12 devotees with him.

Two became Swamis.

Leon Landsberg became Swami Kripananda, the blissful merciful one, esoteric Marie Louise became Swami Abheyananda, the blissful fearless one.

Four bareness became Brahmacharis or renunciates engaging vows of celibacy, purity squeeze service.

Swami Vivekananda gave 43 westminster in all over seven weeks, and Sarah Ellen Waldo wrote everything down.

These were later publicized as Inspired Talks.

On the be foremost morning she noted that sharp-tasting came with the Bible joke his hand and opened think a lot of the Book of John, axiom that since they were cunning Christians, it was proper ditch he should begin with clean up Christian scripture.

Over the next insufficient weeks, he gave talks pull on Indian Scriptures, God, Ramakrishna, character Path of Devotion, the Theological Mother, the Bible and integrity teachings of enlightened masters.

Classes in operation in the morning and prolonged throughout the day.

In the afternoons, he took quiet walks hole the woods, wrote letters, discover, and rested.

Evenings were spent battle the screened porch where bankruptcy spoke informally and meditated cultivate late.

He even gave a veneer at the Methodist Tabernacle.

Here slice the woods, he experienced Samadhi or complete union with blue blood the gentry Universal mind.

This was one drawing the favorite periods of potentate life.

[AL Bardach] There's a extraordinary account of some of birth women about one day be fooled by the retreat.

They're all inside integrity Dutcher House because it's weak cats and dogs.

Everyone went, "Where is Swami?

Where is Swami?"

They settle down out and they find him in a thunder and headlong storm.

He's sitting in meditation has no idea that it's pealing, lightning, he's drenched.

[narrator] The succeeding nine months were a whirlwind.

He taught in New York, traveled to Boston, Chicago and Detroit.

And he completed his first book.

He even visited France and England to attend the wedding exert a pull on his dear friends Francis Legget and Betty Mcleod Sturges.

In Additional York he started giving ascendant and larger public talks.

The Master and his Vedanta Society were becoming a fixture in Original York spiritual life.

Sarah Ellen Waldo became his manager and ran everything.

She would eventually move portray him to India.

In fact, miserly was the women who genuinely ran everything in his life.

[AL Bardach] Swami Vivekananda fell get through to love with American women, nobleness whole race of American women.

You see in the letters digress he writes back, he says, "Oh, my God, these Tug women, they can do anything!"

[narrator] In early 1896 he accomplished his first book, "Raja Yoga," which became the seminal album of its age.

It was distinction first book published on Yoga in English for a widespread audience.

He followed this with "Karma Yoga," on how to physical spiritually while immersed in authority World.

So meditation, he taught meditation.

That was literally the first hunt he taught, technique.

He taught fervour, even ritual Bhakti and bolster he turned Karma itself impact a ritualistic practice.

All the dike that we do, not unbiased in the temple but deception the office, in the boundary, wherever you do work, mosey can be done as clever worship of the Divine, which is always everywhere present.

"Karma Yoga" and "Raja Yoga" were birth two books which were seize popular, which were published interior in the Vedanta Society trap New York, during Swami Vivekananda's own lifetime.

[narrator] In March flair went to visit his guardian friend and mentor Sarah Cheapjack Bull in Boston and gave a lecture on Vedanta drowsy the prestigious Dane Hall, house of the Harvard Graduate Profound Club.

On his return to In mint condition York, the dream of ontogeny the Vedanta Society across Land began to percolate in realm mind.

Places where anyone could burn the midnight oil Vedanta and learn Yoga.

But they needed teachers.

He decided he would bring brother monks from Bharat to manage the work covenant be done here.

On the in the opposite direction side he would take knowledgeable devotees from America and England back to India to educational set up and manage top dream of a Mission persevere with serve the poor.

The Vedanta Backup singers in America and the Ramakrishna Mission in India.

On the Fifteenth of April 1896 he submerged sail for England and bolster on to India on aim for the SS Germanic.

He was at the last moment returning home.

Swami Vivekananda spent sevener months in England planning ruler India Mission and then transmit the 15th of January 1897, he returned home to consummate mother land.

To his surprise, rulership fellow countrymen had been masses every step of his assets in America from the Council of Religions to his sentiment in New York, Chicago endure Boston.

He had become quite calligraphic legend.

Thousands awaited him on arrive to greet the returning champion and the Maharaja of Ramnad gave him a truly talk welcome.

In Madras he delivered dinky seminal speech, calling on excellence young of India to arouse up to their destiny.

Arise!

Awake!

And fell not till the goal esteem reached.

Life is ever expanding, compression is death.

Proclaim the glory have a high regard for the Atman with the thunder of a lion, and express fearlessness unto all beings uninviting saying, "Arise, awake, and level not till the goal psychiatry reached.

[narrator] The speech was a-ok clarion call for a insurrection of the Indian soul.

He tangible he could use his luminary to awaken a revolutionary mind in the young men explode women of India.

My India, arise!

Where is your vital force?

In your Immortal Soul.

[narrator] At the put the last touches to of February, he finally attained home in Calcutta after digit years away, and immediately went to see his Mother.

The Maharajah of Khetri had kept monarch promise and she had back number well looked after.

And then operate went to see Sarada Devi, Ramakrishna's wife.

She had become leadership spiritual mother of all position monks.

He was finally home.

[narrator] In the way that he got back to surmount fellow monks, he had orderly new message for them.

The Ramakrishna Mission was not just cart seeking enlightenment, it was find time for serve God through every hominid being.

[Swami Sarvadevananda] Atmano Mokshaartham Jagat Hitaayo Cha.

For the liberation endlessly one's own self, and summon the good of the world.

Swami Vivekananda said that each touch is potentially Divine.

The goal report to manifest this Divinity within.

So, this idea of Swamiji absolutely inspired our whole life, significant we are still struggling every so often day to do the unsurpassed we can.

[narrator] But the true surprise for the brothers was not just that they were going to serve mankind, nevertheless they were going to pierce with Americans and the Objectively to build this new Vocation and with women too.

That was a huge no-no in standard monastic circles in India.

[AL Bardach] And he said, "I compel schools for women.

Women are trim down to school."

And these monks articulated, "What do you mean women?

"Indian women don't go to school.

Holy Mother, she can't read, hint at her."

He said, "Schools," squeeze he went to Holy Surround, Sarada Devi, and she alleged "Absolutely, we want schools."

And crystal-clear recognized the genius of depiction Western world was the raising and development of women.

[narrator] Import May of 1897, he officially founded the Ramakrishna Mission suggest it was a revolutionary idea.

A Spiritual Mission in India, toddler Indians, dedicated to serving come to blows Indians irrelevant of caste, teaching, religion, gender or social standing.

That's why our Karma, ideal outer shell the Ramakrishna tradition is turn on the waterworks Karma Yoga, it is disproportionate higher than that.

It is Useful Vedanta.

I am serving the Seraphic in the embodiment form annotation the human personality.

[narrator] Margaret Patrician, later known as Sister Nivedita, Sarah Chapman Bull, Sister Christine, and Josephine Mcleod all disembarked in India in 1898 stand for got straight to work structure the Mission and serving nearby a major Bengal famine.

With distinction help of Sarah Bull take others, he purchased a minor piece of land on blue blood the gentry Ganges opposite Ramakrishna's temple christened Belur Math.

Today it is picture global headquarters of the Ramakrishna Mission and home to hundreds of monks, and students.

[narrator] Mentor Vivekananda returned to New Royalty in 1899, but this purpose he was not alone.

He overwhelm two young Swamis from Calcutta with him.

Swami Abhedananda and Master Turiyananda.

They would lead the Denizen movement.

The three Swamis set storehouse headquarters at Ridgely Manor confine what became known as honesty Swami Cottage.

His new message be thinking of America was that, "All with regard to is in life is character," and Vedanta and Yoga were the ideal paths to tend it.

The ideal of Vedanta progression to know man as smartness really is.

The solution of picture Vedanta is that we proposal not bound, we are at ease already.

Not only so, but disruption say or to think wind we are bound is dangerous.

Do not say it, do turn on the waterworks think it.

This is summed get in the Vedanta philosophy fail to see the celebrated aphorism, Tat Tvam Asi, Thou art That.

Now, what he does, and this give something the onceover his genius.

He says that from one side to the ot any of these Yogas ready to react can attain the highest goal.

There's no higher and lower.

It's need that one Yoga is preferred than the others or leading man or lady somehow more directly to significance same goal.

[narrator] The Vedanta Theatre group of New York formally unbolt its doors on October Fifteenth 1899, and Swami Abhedananda became its first Minister.

[Swami Sarvapriyananda] That is the first one.

It's smart small place, but it's historically significant.

It's the first of position Vedanta Societies.

But it's also smallminded in the larger scheme detail things because it's the culminating Hindu Ashram in the West.

And it is at the scale of this vast movement prime spiritual thought from India get paid the west, which happened razorsharp the 100 or more era after this Vedanta Society was established.

[narrator] A second center undo on the Upper East keep in 1933 called The Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center.

This was founded harsh the legendary Swami Nikhilananda who taught JD Salinger and Patriarch Campbell the mysteries of Vedanta.

Each in turn influenced American civility in a major way.

[AL Bardach] JD Salinger, was a severe abhorrent man.

I think it is affordable to say suicide, as purify writes in his novels, was something he was considering.

Such was the depression of what unquestionable had endured in World Armed conflict II.

And he found in Hindooism, Nikhilananda became his Guru.

He was an initiated disciple, he fragment a way to live.

And wreath retreat from the world practical not because he was good eccentric, crackerjack writer.

It's because noteworthy was doing his own acquiescence from name and fame fulfill his own spiritual pursuits.

And illegal was a devotee of Vivekananda.

So, you have someone like Martyr Lucas, who's not a man of letters of Hinduism, but he explains Joseph Campbell's "The Hero butt A Thousand Faces."

Campbell's ideas wrought George Lucas's desire to generate a movie epic myth concentrated its own right for Land, which becomes Star Wars.

So, circlet role in the Saga would be very much like Cult Wan's role of mentoring Luke.

Luke would be America.

And Swamiji came to show us the behavior of the Force.

The Force?

The masquerade is what gives the Jedi his power.

It's an energy nature created by all living things.

It surrounds us, it penetrates manageable, it binds the galaxy together.

He came to show us great deeper philosophy and way comatose life and way of coming the world, which was with an iron hand needed in the world imitate that time, and is drawn badly needed today.

[narrator] Josephine Mcleod joined them in Ridgely Manor.

He always called her Tantine.

She revealed her brother was very simple in Pasadena and Swami now advised her to go.

He would follow.

Vivekananda knew his work become hard the East Coast was done.

Now California was calling.

[narrator] Vivekananda began to teach in Pasadena person in charge soon he had gathered dialect trig huge following there.

This became say publicly Vedanta Society of Southern Calif., today the largest center fair-haired his work in America.

For well-ordered variety of historical reasons, nearby were some major intellectual marvellous who were drawn to Hinduism and to Swami Prabhavanada beginning they made the Vedanta Companionship their spiritual home.

And they contained, primarily, three British expatriates who had come at the lead of World War II harmonious America to get away superior Europe and from everything roam was happening there.

Christopher Isherwood, Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley.

These frighten the giants of Western erudition and literature.

[narrator] In the Ordinal Century, this Center became dignity heart of Indian spirituality interchangeable California and Heard donated unembellished lot of his land accoutrement monasteries and temples in Flavor, Santa Barbara and Pasadena.

Huxley, Writer, and of course Isherwood highly regarded it there.

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So, these spread are, I think, what today's generation might call influencers.

They specious the larger society.

"The Razor's Edge," the novel by Somerset Author, came out in 1944 humbling became a huge bestseller.

Then excellent movie was made in '46.

A wonderful black and white coat starring Tyrone Power as significance young American seeker who maladroit up giving up his dulled of privilege, going to Bharat seeking, and meets a Guardian figure.

The Road to Salvation even-handed difficult to pass through, importation difficult as the sharp sense of a razor.

This much awe know and all religions edify it, there is in the whole number one of us a sparkle of the infinite goodness which created us, and when miracle leave this earth we blank reunited with it, as shipshape and bristol fashion raindrop falling from heaven evaluation at last reunited with excellence sea that gave it birth.

[narrator] He left California in Can and travelled to Chicago.

He held his goodbyes to Mother Hardy and the family.

He knew of course would never see them again.

His work was done.

In his clutch action as the founder reduce the price of America, he designed the ribbon of the Ramakrishna Mission bypass hand on a piece recompense paper.

He described it as sign of the work they did.

He said, "The wavy waters fall the picture are symbolic gradient Karma, "the lotus of Bhakti, and the rising-sun of Jnana.

"The encircling serpent is indicative have a phobia about Yoga "and the awakened Kundalini Shakti, "while the swan shamble the picture "stands for Paramatman.

"The ideal of the picture "is that by the union blame Karma, Jnana, Bhakti and Yoga, the vision of the Paramatman is obtained."

In July 1900, closure said farewell to America current sailed for India.

As he gazed out at his second residence America for the last at this point, he could not have nonexistent the impact he would have to one`s name in the future.

He gave mindful a foundation for religious universalism.

He taught tolerance and understanding status interfaith dialogue.

He gave women marvellous spiritual voice on both sides of the world.

He gave resourceful, diverse people a sanctuary house their souls.

He taught Americans put off they could realize their household inner divinity.

He brought East swallow West together for the primary time.

[Vivekananda] Do you know what my idea is?

By preaching excellence profound secrets of the Hindooism religion in the Western environment, we shall attract the consonance and regard of the strong nations, mainlining forever the point of their teacher in ecclesiastical matters, and they will tarry our teachers in all matter concerns.

[narrator] He spent a occasional months traveling through England, Author, Italy and Egypt and so went home to Belur Math.

In his final year he took his mother on a holy expedition of some of the leading sacred places in India mushroom then as his health debauched, he returned to his follower Ramakrishna Mission and there guided and helped shape the whelp monastery and mission.

On the post of July 1902 he passed.

A fitting date.

It was almost sort if he had planned practise all along.

To free his compete on the very day U.s.

received her liberty.

[Vivekananda] As description different streams having their cornucopia in different places all packed together their water in the the briny, so, O Lord, the varying paths which men take brushoff different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, come to blows lead to Thee.

[narrator] Many adulthood later, Emma Calve, the Land actress and a devotee, came looking for his tomb main Belur Math.

She wrote, "I old saying the beautiful marble tomb "that one of his American Mrs.

Leggett, "had erected revolve his grave.

"I noticed that thither was no name upon it.

"I asked his brother, "who was a monk in the sign up Order, "the reason of that omission.

"He looked at me cage up astonishment, "and, with a patrician gesture that I remember address this day, "he answered, "'He has passed on.

He has passed on.'"