Swami Vivekananda's Cottage in the Thousand Islands is Open

 Swami Vivekananda's Cottage in the Thousand Islands is open and will remain open until August 18th. Daily hours of operation will be 10AM to noon and 4PM to 6 PM. There will be a group prayer  and meditation during the afternoon session.

From July 26 8PM to July 29 Noon  Swami Yuktatmananda will hold a retreat and meditation.

The cottage is   is a must visit for anyone interested in Hinduism and its vedanta, yoga and meditation. It is only opened briefly in the summer and  provides for a lovely day visit. 

 the cottage is ocated in  Thousand Islands Park on Wellesley Island in the  Thousands Islands, which  is spectacularly beautiful.

The room upstairs where the Swami stayed while he was there for 8 weeks in 1895 (he lectured and taught on Vedanta) has a powerful vortex; one that put me instantly in the balcony a few years ago. Very, very strong. You definitely need to meditate in the room--the vortex is located in the center of the room. Try to visit later in the season and during a weekday to have less people around to better experience this divine space.

The house and the immediate area rests on Fields of Consciousness. There is another vortex in the rocks behind the house. Meditating on the rocks in front of, or behind the house would be a good thing to do.

Make sure to visit the rock/tree in the back (it is a short 5 minute walk) where Swami Vivekananda achieved the highest state of Samadhi. 

It said that on his last day August 7, 1895 at the Thousand Islands the Swami went into the back woods to meditate and froze solid in meditation and remained oblivious to torrential rain and is said to have achieved nirvikalpa Samadhi. (Page 104) A rare accomplishment.

“He had a unique experience of inner freedom at the Thousand Islands Park which he expressed eloquently in his poem “The Song of Sannyasin”. He wrote from there to a friend:
“I am free, my bonds are cut, what do I care whether this body goes or does not go? I have a truth to teach—I am a child of God. And He that gave me truth will send me fellow workers from the earth’s bravest and best.” Page 105-106
Source Vivekananda a Biography (1953)
The tree has since died, but a new one has been planted and a memorial erected. It is a short walk to the back.

Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of NYC.

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