{"id":4321,"date":"2004-06-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/06\/27\/2004-06-27-celebration-in-memory-of-swami-vivekananda-s-visit\/"},"modified":"2004-06-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-27T12:00:00","slug":"2004-06-27-celebration-in-memory-of-swami-vivekananda-s-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/06\/27\/2004-06-27-celebration-in-memory-of-swami-vivekananda-s-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration In Memory Of Swami Vivekananda&#8217;s Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thetimesonline.com\/articles\/2004\/06\/21\/news\/porter_county\/c65e92adf9da269886256eb9007d3bcc.Txt\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>VALPARAISO, ILLINOIS, June 21, 2004: On a winter day in 1894, a train dropped off a lone Hindu monk in Valparaiso, not far from Chicago. It was Swami Vivekananda and he gave a talk to the largest audience ever at the Memorial Opera House. Local physician Arjun Gupta hopes to celebrate Swami&#8217;s talk at the opera house, 104 Indiana Avenue, on 26 June. The evening will include prayer, storytelling through dance and song, and an address by Asim Chaudhuri, author of &#8220;Swami Vivekananda in Chicago, New Findings,&#8221; said Gupta. It is sponsored by the Valparaiso Vedanta Study Society, in cooperation with the Vivekananda Vedanta Society of Chicago. Vivekananda&#8217;s visit followed his popular talk on September 11, during The World&#8217;s Parliament of Religions in Chicago. He spoke about the same types of threats that led to the terrorist attacks in the USA more than a hundred years later, and on exactly the same day &#8212; September 11. &#8220;Sectarianism, bigotry and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth,&#8221; said Vivekananda in Chicago. &#8220;They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair.&#8221; Gupta finds Vivekananda&#8217;s words remarkable. &#8220;Obviously it&#8217;s a coincidence,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But it&#8217;s very significant for us after what we&#8217;ve been through.&#8221; <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceVALPARAISO, ILLINOIS, June 21, 2004: On a winter day in 1894, a train dropped off a lone Hindu monk in,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}