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Documentary on Swami Vivekananda is streaming free on public television in the US
‘America’s First Guru’ celebrates the story of Swami Vivekananda, who single-handedly sparked a spiritual revolution in America and around the World.
The first-ever full-length documentary on Swami Vivekananda premiered this month on PBS, bringing to American households the incredible life and message of the young monk from India.
The ochre-robed Swami became ‘America’s First Guru’, the documentary title, leaving an indelible mark on America and Western consciousness after creating a sensation with his epoch-making address at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1893.
Directed by documentary filmmaker Raja Choudhury, and produced by his A Thousand Suns Academy, ‘America’s First Guru’ employs vivid reenactments, insightful commentary, and rich archival material to encapsulate how Swami Vivekananda altered the world’s spiritual landscape by opening the Western mind and heart to the eternal wisdom of the East. His universal teachings on self-realization, service, and divinity inherent in all people profoundly impacted generations of free thinkers and spiritual seekers across America, as chronicled in ‘American Veda’ by Phil Goldberg, who appears in the documentary.
US President Barack Obama appears at the opening of the film and, referring to Swami’s 1893 address, says, “He came to my hometown of Chicago. And there, at a great gathering of religious leaders, he spoke of his faith and the divinity in every soul, and the purity of love.”
Introducing East to the West at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1893, Swami Vivekananda spoke of the divinity in every soul and the purity of love.
Obama acknowledges that theSwami brought Hinduism and Yoga to his country. A succession of Indian gurus, such as Paramahansa Yogananda and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, followed in his footsteps. The teachings of yoga and meditation that took root in US soil over t Cornelia Conger Josephine MacLeod Katharine Whitmarsh Lillian Montgomery Swami SatprakashanandaVivekananda: As We Saw Him
Five reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda recorded by people who knew him
Met the Swami as a “yellow-haired girl of six” in the home of her grandfather, John Lyons, where Vivekananda stayed during the Parliament of Religions in 1893. “He’d tell the most enchanting stories of peacocks and monkeys climbing trees . . I still think of him as somebody I loved and who, I think, loved me.”
Swami Vivekananda’s great friend and admirer. “He said, ‘Never forget who you are. Incidentally, you are an American and a woman, but always you are the child of God.’”
Grand-niece of Mr. Francis Leggett. In the summer of 1899, she met Vivekananda at Ridgely Manor. “Swamiji took a walk everyday and he stopped by our house on the way . . . we used to run races. . . he gave a penny to the winner and he seemed to thoroughly enjoy it.”
Attended Vivekananda’s New York lectures in 1900. “His great power was that he perceived the divinity in all forms, and he perceived it to such a degree that he awakened it in his listeners as he was speaking.”
A respected monk of the Ramakrishna Order and a pioneer of the Vedanta work in America. He met Vivekananda as a boy in Dacca in 1901. “It left a very indelible impression upon my mind which has been a source of inspiration all the years, and has been at the back of all that I have good and great in me.”
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