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Swami Jyotirmayananda hails from South Kanara, Karnataka,
had his school and college studies at the Mangalore Ramakrishna
Mission Students Home, got the Mantra Diksha in 1966 while
serving in a firm in Madras, from Swami Vireswarananda, the
Tenth President of the Ramakrishna Order, joined the Vivekananda
Kendra, a Service Mission at Kanyakumari in 1973, and after
service, took to monastic life independently in 1976.
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The first edition of his book on Swami Vivekananda
(986 pages) was published in 1986, and its fifth edition, entitled
"Vivekananda -- His Gospel of Man-making" was released
at New York in the context of the UN Millennium World Peace Summit
2000. This book chronicles the important events in the life and
times of the great Son of Modern India, and highlights his mission
and the message to the world. It is now available as an e-book on
CD-ROM, with an audio-visual presentation (one hour) titled "Swami
Vivekananda -- The Great Hindu Monk of India and His Lasting Spiritual
Legacy to Humanity". This presentation was developed in 2002,
in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Swami Vivekananda's
Mahasamadhi, and specifically to address the needs of the student
community in the US Universities and Colleges.
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| Swami Jyotirmayananda has been visiting
the U.S. since 1993 and has attended the 'Parliament of Religions',
Chicago (1993), 'Global Vision 2000' Program in Washington (1993),
'UN Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders',
New York (2000); 'Vedanta in the Third Millennium' conference organized
by the Chicago Vedanta Society (2001), the 'Vishwa Dharma Prasaar
Yaatra' Program (2001) in Chicago, and the Fourth International Conference
of the World Association of Vedic Studies, at the University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth, MA, (2002), where he presented a paper on "India's
Spirituality and its World-wide Impact". In early July 2004,
he participated in the "Konkani Sammelan" at Los Angeles,
and also in the fifth International Conference organized by the World
Association of Vedic Studies, at the University of Maryland, Shady
Grove Campus, Maryland, where he presented a paper on "India's
Intellectual Traditions in Contemporary Global Context". He was
one of the Program Coordinators of the Dharma Summit Conference (http://www.hinduismtoday.com/hpi/2005/8/17.shtml)
convened by Swami Dayananda Saraswati and held at the Rutgers University,
New Jersey (Aug. 13-15, 2005). Also, he was one of the Coordination
Committee Members, Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha Convention, Mumbai (October16,
17 & 18). He can be reached at: swamijyoti@vivekanandagospel.org.
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| The web page: http://www.vivekanandagospel.org/
deals with his publication and the blogspot: http://www.vivekajyoti.blogspot.com/
is a resource on various issues facing the society. |
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