The life of Vivekananda in Nutshell

1. Vivekananda

2. 1863
Born

3. 1881
In November Vivekananda
met Sri Ramakrihna (1836-1886),
his guru, for the first time

4. 1882-86
Vivekananda was closely
associated with Sri Ramakrishna

5. 1886
Vivekananda took the vow of
sanyas with his brother disciples on
Christmas Eve, sitting around a fire
in the compound of Swami
Premananda’s house at Antpur, in
Hooghly district

6. 1887
Vivekananda founded
Ramakrishna Math in May at
Baranagore in Kolkota

7. 1888-89
Years of close involvement with
the Math when he and his brother
monks led a life of severe penance
and meditation under crushing
poverty

8. 1890-93
These were his years as the
Wandering Monk. He left the
Math in July 1890 and travelled
across Indian. During this period
he acquired an intimate knowledge
of the life of the toiling masses.

9. 1892
Vivekananada meditated for three
days in December on a rock off
Kanyakumari. When he came back
to the mainland, he had decided to
travel to the West to seek help for
India’s poor

10. 1893
Sails for the US from Bombay on May
31. Makes his first address at the
parliament of religions at the Art
institute in Chicago on September 11,
and his final address on September 27

11. 1894-96
Travels extensively in the US and
Europe, lecturing and preaching

12. 1897
Returns to India via Colombo in
January. Calls a meeting of his
desciples, both monks and lay
persons, in March at Balaram Bose’s
House in Kolkota and announced the
formation of the Ramakrishna
Mission

13. 1898
Goes on a pilgrimage in northern
India. In June he visits Kashmir
with his disciples from the West

14. 1900
Arrives in Paris on August 1 to
participate in the congress of the
History of Religions. Travels to
Hungary, Rumania, Serbia, Bulgaria,
Constantinople. Onwards to Athens
and Cairo. Returns to Belur Math on
December 9

15. 1901
Goes on a Pilgrimage in East Bengal
and Assam with mother
Bhuvaneshwari Devi

16. 1902
Returns in March from Varanasi to
Belur math. Passes away at the Math
on July 4

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