Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Bengali: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Bengali" title="Help:IPA for Bengali" >[ʃami bibekanɒnɖo]</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Swami_Vivekananda.ogg" title="About this sound" ><img src="/47ba15db-c77d-57b6-a7f8-cf126e159f6f.png"/></a> <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Swami_Vivekananda.ogg" class="internal" title="Swami Vivekananda.ogg" >listen</a>), Shāmi Bibekānondo; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta (Bengali: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Bengali" title="Help:IPA for Bengali" >[nɔrend̪ro nat̪ʰ d̪ɔt̪t̪o]</a>), was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India" >Indian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu" title="Hindu" >Hindu</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk" title="Monk" >monk</a>, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakrishna" title="Ramakrishna" >Ramakrishna</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda#cite_note-4" >[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda#cite_note-5" >[5]</a> He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedanta" title="Vedanta" >Vedanta</a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga" title="Yoga" >Yoga</a> to the Western world<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda#cite_note-6" >[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorg2002600-7" >[7]</a> and is credited with raising <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfaith_dialogue" title="Interfaith dialogue" >interfaith</a> awareness, bringing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism" >Hinduism</a> to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClarke2006209-8" >[8]</a>He was a major force in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_reform_movements" title="Hindu reform movements" >revival of Hinduism</a> in India, and contributed to the concept of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism" >nationalism</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_India" title="Colonial India" >colonial India</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVon_Dense1999191-9" >[9]</a> Vivekananda founded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakrishna_Math" title="Ramakrishna Math" >Ramakrishna Math</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakrishna_Mission" title="Ramakrishna Mission" >Ramakrishna Mission</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorg2002600-7" >[7]</a> He is perhaps best known for his speech which began, "Sisters and brothers of America ...,"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDutt2005121-10" >[10]</a> in which he introduced Hinduism at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_World%27s_Religions" title="Parliament of the World's Religions" >Parliament of the World's Religions</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago" >Chicago</a> in 1893.

Born into an aristocratic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Bengali people" >Bengali</a> family of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata" title="Kolkata" >Calcutta</a>, Vivekananda was inclined towards spirituality. He was influenced by his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru" title="Guru" >Guru</a>, Ramakrishna Deva, from whom he learnt that all living beings were an embodiment of the divine self; therefore, service to God could be rendered by service to mankind. After Ramakrishna's death, Vivekananda toured the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_subcontinent" title="Indian subcontinent" >Indian subcontinent</a> extensively and acquired first-hand knowledge of the conditions prevailing in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="British India" >British India</a>. He later travelled to the United States, representing India at the 1893 Parliament of the World Religions. Vivekananda conducted hundreds of public and private lectures and classes, disseminating tenets of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_philosophy" title="Hindu philosophy" >Hindu philosophy</a>in the United States, England and Europe. In India, Vivekananda is regarded as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_gurus_and_saints" title="List of Hindu gurus and saints" >patriotic saint</a> and his birthday is celebrated there as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Youth_Day_(India)" title="National Youth Day (India)" >National Youth Day</a>.

Vivekananda

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