Swami Vivekananda was born on 12th January, 1863 in Kolkatha. He was originally named as Narendranath Datta. He had a sharp intellect with a rational approach. He even questioned the existence of God. He began his journey in search of a person who could quench his spiritual thirst, which ended in Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Narendranath became the disciple of Paramahamsa.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa asked Narendranath to continue his work after Paramahamsa’s death. So after Paramahamsa’s death Narendranath vowed as sanyasi , with the name Vivekananda.
Swami Vivekananda took part in World Parliament of Religions . His historica speech began with the salutation: “My dear brothers and sisters of America…”. This made the audience speechless. There Swami Vivekananda stressed on, in his speech, the importance of a vision for a universal outlook, which is already in Indian Philosophy. All the great philosophers presented there congratulated Swamiji. Swami Vivekananda showed the world what India was.
He believed in the power of youth and considered it as the the power of the nation. To him youths were the only hope for India’s progress. He encouraged the youth to awake from sleep and to work.
Once Swami Vivekananda described himself as ‘A Condensed India’. So it was. To understand Vivekananda is actually to understand India itself. Although his life span is of the length of only 14418 days, his work and service cannot be expressed , whatever units you my use, in any finite number. The depth of his work is still to entirely manifest.
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