A DATE
It was 11th
September 1893 in Chicago
Parliament of World’s
Religions opened
Seven thousand thirsty
souls had come
To drink the ambrosia
The men on dais were
to pour
The thirty year old
monk’s* throat dried up
For he never lectured
before such audience
He simply kept on
delaying
Suddenly there was no
one left but he
Who had to deliver
the speech
Which he hadn’t kept ready
It was no child’s
play….he had to stand up
And what did he utter?
“Sisters and Brothers
of America” and no more
For a two minute
standing ovation
And a thunderous
applause greeted him
Then in that sonorous
baritone he thanked
All present there and
completed his small speech
He was known as “the
Cyclonic Monk” after that
And turned out as the
greatest figure
His life giving words
were the Amrita**
People drank in gallons
and received bliss
It was another 11th
September
*· Swami Vivekananda, born Narendra Nath Datta,
was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century saint
Ramakrishna.Wikipedia, he passed away in 1902 at the age of 39.
Posted for Kerry’s Friday Challenge ~ Vignette
**Amrita (Sanskrit: अमृत; IAST: amṛta) is a Sanskrit word that literally means "immortality", and is
often referred to in texts as nectar. The word's earliest occurrence is in theRigveda, where it is one of several synonyms of "soma" as the drink which confers immortality upon the gods.
It is related etymologically to the Greek "ambrosia",[1] and it carries the same meaning courtesy : wikipedia
