Swami Vivekananda
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"Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached"
Vivekananda in Chicago, September 1893. In note on the left Vivekananda wrote: "One infinite pure and holy – beyond thought beyond qualities I bow down to thee".
Bhubaneswari Devi (1841–1911); "I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge." – Vivekananda
3, Gourmohan Mukherjee Street, birthplace of Vivekananda, now converted into a museum and cultural centre
Statue of Vivekananda at the Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House and Cultural Centre
Sahasrara
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Sahasrāra or the Crown Chakra is considered the seventh primary chakra in Indian spiritualistic yoga traditions. The chakra is represented by the colour violet.
Swami Vivekananda
…meditating. The rupture of a blood vessel in his brain was reported as a possible cause of death. According to his disciples, the rupture was due to his brahmarandhra (an opening in the crown of his head) being pierced when he attained mahasamādhi. Vivekananda fulfilled his prophecy that he would not live forty years…
Brahmin (practising pranayama) with tuft of hair at the Bindu Visarga
Sahasrāra used as roof-architecture in a Temple in Tamil Nadu