Born in Calcutta on January 12, 1863, Swami Vivekananda was the chief disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. He was a marvellous blend of all excellences. Eager to know if God is true and perceptible, he was guided to Sri Ramakrishna who assured him from his personal realization that God is the only Reality and can be communed with. Questioning the Master at every step and accepting nothing without rigorous proof, he was able to be in tune with the Infinite. After the Master's passing away he took upon himself the great mission of propagating the truth of oneness, the universality of being, the harmony of religions, and the glory of the Atman. He put India on the spiritual map of the world by his famous addresses at the Parliment of Religions held in Chicago in 1893.
He made Vedanta popular in the West, and in India he established the twin organizations, the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission, in 1897, to train those who had renounced the world in search of God and to integrate the activities of individuals who chose to serve fellow men and women unselfishly. His brilliant speeches and writings constitute a rich legacy for all who care for the higher values of life.
Swami Vivekananda visited Madras in February 1897 and stayed at Vivekanandar Illam on Kamarajar Salai for 9 days from 6th to 14th after his triumphant return from the West. At the request of devotees of Chennai he sent Swami Ramakrishnananda, one of his brother disciples, to start the Chennai Mylapore Math in the year 1897. Initially the Math functioned at Vivekanandar Illam for 9 years before shifiting to the present site at Mylapore.
Television Series on the Life and Teachings of Swami Vivekananda:
Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai has planned to celebrate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda in a grand manner. As part of the celebrations, we have proposed a Tamil TV series of 52 episodes (to be telecast as one episode per week) on the life and message of Greatest Saint of Renaissance India, Swami Vivekananda.The telecast can commence in early 2011 and can be completed in 2012, as a curtain raiser for the 150th Birth Anniversary celebrations of Swami Vivekananda. The estimated initial cost of producing the first few episodes is about 20 Lakh ($US 45000).
Feature Film on Life of Swami Vivekananda:
As Part of the 150th Birth Anniversary Celebrations of Swami Vivekananda, we have proposed producing a feature film on Life of Swami Vivekananda. The feature film will be in Tamil and Hindi and will be completed at the production cost of Rs. 2.5 Crores (Half a million US Dollars) in complete DIGITAL MASTER of very high quality technical format.
Books subsidy scheme:
The 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda will be celebrated in a befitting manner. The Ramakrishna Math, Chennai, has planned to celebrate this historic occasion through several schemes, one of which is the Books subsidy scheme. Under this scheme, it is proposed to print several million copies of the books depicting the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda in Tamil and English. We propose to make available the important titles of Swami Vivekananda at half the original price, without compromising the quality, so that they will reach the all the sections of our society.
Comments
Indeed, the film VIVEKANANDA will be multi-million dollar project. Swamiji who gave his heart's blood for humanity deserves much more than such a film.
Let us "Arise, awake and stop not till the goal" of creating three-hour epic feature film VIVEKANANDA of world class in both English and Hindi is reached.
--Girish Parikh
Author & Journalist
Modesto California
E-mail: girish116
It is in this context I am writing to you to take a bold step of releasing Swamiji to the digital world, from the print media. Please make Swamiji Complete Works and other major books on him, in all Indian languages, digitally in the net freely, by PDF_ing the DTP-ed vernacular versions of his works, and post it in the net in your website for free download or for download for a fee, so that his message reaches today's youth, to whom he addressed all his thoughts, who are ever with the latest mobiles, tablet pcs and laptops.
Ramu
If you want a copy of this screenplay, just sent me an e-mail.
Thank you
Jose Landman
Om
I also am an ardent follower of teh Swami. I have left my IT career and formed a Film production company to raise money and help produce an Epic class film on Swami Vivekananda.
I need to talk to you very soon. Please call me at 0091-9008003517, I live in bangalore, India. Or you may send me your contact phone and I can call you.
Tapas Datta
Dear Tapas:
Thank you very much for your e-mail, I live in San Diego, California, USA. I think there is about 12 hours in difference. If I call at 10 P.M. in San Diego, is 10 A.M. on the other day in your city, is OK for you to talk?
please send me your e-mail
thank you
I'm sorry my e-mail is landmanjose@gma il.com
please respond to this e-mail
thank you
I read about your work. Realy it a great task and nice thoughts behind this. Sir I want to take more knowledge about swami ji and their thoughts. Plz mail me a one copy from your collection. Realy It will provide me new approch of thinking. I need it if a Hindi Language copy is available.
Heartly thanking you
Abhilash
Tapas
Jai Swamiji!!
Please visit the website www.owasfilms.com - the project website for teh English narrative feature film on Swami Vivekananda "One Without A Second", and send us your comments and suggestions. The blog and facebook pages will also be up soon.