Swami Vivekananda
Vivekananda was a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world. In India, Vivekananda is regarded as a patriotic saint, and his birthday is celebrated as National Youth Day. His speech introducing Hinduism at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1893 is considered one of the most important in the history of the religion.
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Vivekananda was a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world. He is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. In India, Vivekananda is regarded as a patriotic saint, and his birthday is celebrated as National Youth Day. His speech introducing Hinduism at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1893 is considered one of the most important in the history of the religion. He died on 4 July 1902 in Calcutta, India, and is buried in the Rajpath Cemetery in Raipur, Uttar Pradesh, India. His son, Swami Ravi Datta, was also a disciple of Ramak Krishna and a leading figure in Indian Hindu reform movements of the late 1800s and early 1900s. His grandson, Ravi Varma, is a noted author and author of several books on Hinduism and philosophy. His great-great-grandson, Rajendra Varma is a well-known author and professor of Hindu studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also written a biography of his father, titled Narendranath Datta: The Life of a Hindu Monk (1863-1902). He is also the author of a book about the life and times of his mother, Bhubaneswari Devi: The Story of a devout Housewife (1871-1903). He was also the father of a son, Narendra, who became a prominent Indian politician and philanthropist.
He also wrote a book on the life of his grandfather, Durgacharan Datta (1861-1905), and a biography on his father’s father, Vishwanath, which is published by Penguin Books. In his autobiography, he describes how his mother said, “I prayed to Shiva for a son and he has sent me one of his demons’”. He also describes how he was naughty and restless as a child, and how his parents often had difficulty controlling him. In 1881, he passed the Fine Arts examination, and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1884. Narendra studied Western logic, Western philosophy and European history at the General Assembly’s Institution. He became fascinated with the evolution of evolution, translating Herbert Spencer’s book into Bengali. While studying Western philosophers, he learned Sanskrit scriptures and Bengali literature. Narendra was trained in Indian classical music, and regularly participated in physical exercise, sports and organised activities. He later travelled to the United States, representing India at the 1893 Parliament of. the World’s Religion, where he gave hundreds of public and private lectures and classes, disseminating tenets of Hindu philosophy in the U.S., England and Europe. He went on to become one of India’s leading thinkers and thinkers.
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