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Wanderings in India

Soon, the young monk of Baranagore wanted to live the life of a wandering monk in rags and begging bowl and not other property. In July 1890, Vivekananda set out on a long journey without knowing where the journey would take him. The journey that followed took him to the length and breadth of the Indian subcontinent. During these days, Vivekananda assumed various names like Vividishananda (in Sanskrit, Vividisha means "desire to know" and Ananda means "happiness"), Satchidananda,… It is said that the Maharaja of Khetri, Ajit Singh, has proposed Vivekananda him the name because of his discernment of things, good and bad. Viveka or discrimination between the eternal and the ephemeral was highly appreciated by the Swami who recalled that Keshab Chandra Sen used to call it by that name, accepted it.




During those wanderings days, Vivekananda remained kings' palace, and the huts of the poor. He came in close contact with the culture of different regions of India and various categories of persons in India. Vivekananda the imbalance in society and the tyranny in the name of caste. He realized the need for a national rejuvenation if India were to survive at all. He reached Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of the Indian subcontinent, December 24 1892. There he swam across the sea and began to meditate on a rock solo. He meditated for three days later and said he meditated on the past, present and future of 'India. rock became the Vivekananda memorial at Kanyakumari.

 

 

Vivekananda Temple on Vivekananda rock Kanyakumari, IndiaVivekananda went to Madras and talked about his plans for India and Hinduism for young men of Madras. They were impressed by the monk, and urges him to go to the United States and represent Hinduism in the World Parliament of Religions. The Raja of Ramnad, who was originally invited to the conference, Vivekananda promoted as the right person to represent the view of Hinduism in the Parliament. Thus, assisted by his friends in Chennai, Bhaskara Sethupathi, Raja Ramnad and Maharajas of Mysore and Khetri, Vivekananda set out on his journey to the United States.

In one of its conferences in California, the swami described his condition during the day wandering as follows:

I have been several times in the jaws of death, starvation, feet, and weary, for days and days I had no food, and often could not walk farther, I want to go down in a tree, and life seems to be ebbing Away. I could not speak, I could hardly believe, but finally returned to mind the idea: "I have no fear, or death, I was never born, I never killed I was never hungry or thirsty. I am It! I am It! The whole of nature can overwhelm me, it is my servant. Affirmerons your strength, your Lord of lords and the God of gods! Recover your lost empire! Arise, walk and not to stop! "And I would like to raise, Revigorée, and I am here today, alive! Thus, whenever darkness comes, and affirm the reality, any injury must disappear. After all, it is not realistic. Mountain-top if difficulties arise terrible and dark when all things seem, they are the Maya. Do not be afraid, and it is forbidden. Crush, and it disappears. Stamp him, and he died.

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