SWAMI VIVEKANANDA -- HIS LIFE AND LEGACY ... 6
Even as a boy, Narendranath had the vision of the Buddha, or, so he believed the tonsured monk he had seen in his room to have been.
In 1877 at the age of fourteen, en route to Raipur, Narendra had his first experience of ecstasy. While viewing a huge bee-hive in the cleft of a hill from his bullock-cart seat, he was lost in mute wonder as to the antiquity of the bee-hive and the magnitude of labour of countless bees for ages that must have gone into the making of the hive. As he kept contemplating thus while gazing at the bee-hive, he lost outer consciousness completely and it was a deal of distance that had been covered before he regained his senses.
He came back from Raipur to Calcutta in 1879 to pass his Matriculation Examinations in the first division and thereafter enrolled himself first in the Presidency College and a year later in the General Assembly's Institution (today's Scottish Church College) from where he graduated.
Narendranath was now an erudite scholar, an accomplished singer and a frequenter of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, the reformist monotheistic movement originally founded by Raja Rammohan Roy.
Written by Sugata Bose
Even as a boy, Narendranath had the vision of the Buddha, or, so he believed the tonsured monk he had seen in his room to have been.
In 1877 at the age of fourteen, en route to Raipur, Narendra had his first experience of ecstasy. While viewing a huge bee-hive in the cleft of a hill from his bullock-cart seat, he was lost in mute wonder as to the antiquity of the bee-hive and the magnitude of labour of countless bees for ages that must have gone into the making of the hive. As he kept contemplating thus while gazing at the bee-hive, he lost outer consciousness completely and it was a deal of distance that had been covered before he regained his senses.
He came back from Raipur to Calcutta in 1879 to pass his Matriculation Examinations in the first division and thereafter enrolled himself first in the Presidency College and a year later in the General Assembly's Institution (today's Scottish Church College) from where he graduated.
Narendranath was now an erudite scholar, an accomplished singer and a frequenter of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, the reformist monotheistic movement originally founded by Raja Rammohan Roy.
Written by Sugata Bose
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