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Writing about "being virtually" unknown and forgotten:
A 3-D recreation of 1893â²s Parliament of Religions "9/11
The Awakening" is about Swami Vivekananda's historic speech
"Sisters and Brothers of America" delivered at Parliament of
Religions in Chicago on September 11th, 1893.
A realistic 3D Model of Swami Vivekananda with real skin shaders has
been created and improvised based only on his photographs in the absence
of any video reference of Vivekananda. Hollywood-animated movies like
Polar Express (2004), Beowoulf (2007) have attempted realistic models
for living personalities. To create smoother animation for the 3-D
movie, Motion capture has been performed with an actor playing
Vivekananda's role. The entire Chicago Expo has been re-created
based on 1893 Chicago Archive Maps and a virtual setup of the Parliament
of Religions stage with an audience of 7000 members has been built. The
Empress of India ship that Vivekananda undertook during his journey to
the West has also been re-created.
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
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> 150th Celebration of Vivekananda
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21045281
The speech
11 September, 1893. World's First Parliament of Religions.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA:
"Sisters and Brothers of America:
It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm
and cordial welcome which you have given us. I thank you in the name of
the most ancient order of monks in the world; I thank you in the name of
the mother of religions; and I thank you in the name of the millions and
millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects. My thanks, also, to
some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates
from the Orient, have told you that these men from far-off nations may
well claim the honor of bearing to different lands the idea of
toleration.
I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both
tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal
toleration, but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to
a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all
religions and all nations of the earth. I am proud to tell you that we
have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who
came to the southern India and took refuge with us in the very year in
which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyranny. I am
proud to belong to the religion which has sheltered and is still
fostering the remnant of the grand Zoroastrian nation.
I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a hymn which I remember
to have repeated from my earliest boyhood, which is every day repeated
by millions of human beings:
As the different streams having there sources in different places
all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which
men take through different tendencies, various though they appear,
crooked or straight, all lead to thee.
The present convention, which is one of the most august assemblies ever
held, is in itself a vindication, a declaration to the world, of the
wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita:
Whosoever comes to Me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are
struggling through paths which in the end lead to me.
Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have
long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with
violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed
civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for
these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it
is now. But their time is come; and I fervently hope that the bell that
tolled this morning in honor of this convention may be the death-knell
of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen,
and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to
the same goal."
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Do I hear harmony?
