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Historical fgures whom the Swami admired

Chatrapati Sivaji

One day it was Sivaji and the Marathas and the year's wandering as a Sanyasin,

that won him home to Raigarh. !nd to this day said the Swami,"#une,$%&%

authority in (ndia dreads the Sannyasin, lest he conceal )eneath his yellow gar)another Sivaji.

* Sister +ivedita "+otes o some wanderings with the Swami -iveananda

/he 0choes o /eachings o Swami -iveananda )y 1r. M.C. +anjunda Rao

"!n evening tal on Sivaji

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Sir 2hilip Sidney

Sir 2hilip Sidney "$334*$3%56 0nglish poet, soldier and politician.

!s ( grow older ( fnd that ( loo more and more or greatness in little things. ( want

to now what a great man eats and wears, and how he speas to his servants. (want to fnd a Sir 2hilip Sidney greatness7 8ew men would remem)er the thirst o

others, even in the moment o death. ** Swami -iveananda.


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Raja Ram Mohan Roy

"Swami -iveananda pointed out three things as the dominant notes o "Ram

Mohun Roy message6 his acceptance o the -edanta, his preaching o patriotism,

and the love that em)raced the Mussulman e9ually with the Hindu.

(n all these things, he "-iveananda claimed himsel to have taen up the tas

that the )readth and oresight o Ram Mohun Roy had mapped out.

"+otes o some wanderings with the Swami -iveananda )y Sister +ivedita


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:iuseppe Ma;;ini

(taly6 greatest o the countries o 0urope, land o religion and o art< alie o

imperial organi;ation and o Ma;;ini >, $%?3 @ March $?, $%A> was an (talian patriot,

philosopher and politician. Ma;;ini's eBorts helped )ring a)out the modern (talian

state in place o the several separate states, many dominated )y oreign powers,
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that eisted until the nineteenth century. He also helped defne the modern

0uropean movement or popular 1emocracy in a Repu)lican State.

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1avid Hare

Sister +ivedita wrote "!long with "-idyasagar as one o the educators o Dengal,

the Swami coupled the name o 1avid Hare, the old Scotsman and atheist to whom

the clergy o Calcutta reused Christian )urial. He had died o nursing an old pupil

through cholera. So his own )oys carried his dead )ody and )uried it in a swamp,
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and made the grave a place o pilgrimage. /hat place has now )ecome College

S9uare, the educational centre and his school is now within the Eniversity. !nd to

this day, Calcutta students mae pilgrimage to the tom).


:enghis Fhan

-iveananda said "$%&%, Gou hear people tal o him as a vulgar aggressor )ut

that is not true7 /hey are never greedy or vulgar, these great souls 7 He was

inspired with the thought *o unity, and he wanted to uniy his world.



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Chandragupta Maurya
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:autama Duddha

Sister +ivedita wrote o the Swami and Duddha...
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/hat was a great hour indeed, when he spoe o Duddha< or, catching a word that

seemed to identiy him with its anti*Drahminical spirit, an uncomprehending listener

said, hy Swami, ( did not now that you were a Duddhist7

'Madam, he said rounding on her, his whole ace aglow with the inspiration o that

name, ( am the servant o the servants o the servants o Duddha. ho was thereever lie HimI=the Jord=who never perormed one action or Himsel=with a heart

that em)raced the whole world 7 So ull o pity that He=prince and mon=would

give his lie to save a little goat7 So loving that He sacrifced himsel to the hunger

o a tigress7=to the hospitality o a pariah and )lessed him. !nd He came into my

room when ( was a )oy and ( ell at His eet 7 8or ( new it was the Jord Himsel7

Many times he spoe o Duddha in this ashion, sometimes at Delur and sometimes

aterwards.

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