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Date of Birth: January12, 1863
Place of Birth: Calcutta, Bengal Presidency (Now Kolkata in West Bengal)
Parents: Vishwanath Dutta (Father) and Bhuvaneshwari Devi (Mother)
Education: Calcutta Metropolitan School; Presidency College, Calcutta
Institutions: Ramakrishna Math; Ramakrishna Mission; Vedanta Society of New York
Religious Views: Hinduism
Philosophy: Advaita Vedanta
Publications: Karma Yoga (1896); Raja Yoga (1896); Lectures from Colombo to Almora (1897); My Master (1901)
Death: July 4, 1902
Place of Death: Belur Math, Belur, Bengal
Memorial: Belur Math, Belur, West Bengal
Swami Vivekananda was a Hindu monk and one of the most celebrated spiritual leaders of India. He was more than just a spiritual mind; he was a prolific thinker, great orator and passionate patriot. He carried on the free-thinking philosophy of his guru, Ramakrishna Paramhansa forward into a new paradigm. He worked tirelessly towards betterment of the society, in servitude of the poor and needy, dedicating his all for his country. He was responsible for the revival of Hindu spiritualism and established Hinduism as a revered religion on world stage. His message of universal brotherhood and self-awakening remains relevant especially in the current backdrop of widespread political turmoil around the world. The young monk and his teachings have been an inspiration to many, and his words have become goals of self-improvement especially for the youth of the country. For this very reason, his birthday, January 12, is celebrated as the National Youth Day in India.
Early Life and Education
Born Narendranath Dutta, into an affluent Bengali family in Calcutta, Vivekananda was one of the eight children of Vishwanath Dutta and Bhuvaneshwari Devi. He was born on January 12, 1863, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. Father Vishwanath was a successful attorney with considerable influence in society. Narendranath’s mother Bhuvaneshwari was a woman endowed with a strong, God-fearing mind who had a great impact on her son.
As a young boy, Narendranath displayed sharp intellect. His mischievous nature belied his interest in music, both instrumental as well as vocal. He excelled in his studies as well, first at the Metropolitan institution, and later at the Presidency College in Calcutta. By the time he graduated from the college, he had acquired a vast knowledge of different subjects. He was active in sports, gymnastics, wrestling and body building. He was an avid reader and read up on almost everything under the sun. He perused the Hindu scriptures like the Bhagvad Gita and the Upanishads on one hand, while on the other hand he studied western philosophy, history and spirituality by David Hume, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Herbert Spencer.
Spiritual Crisis and Relationship with Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Although Narendranath’s mother was a devout woman and he had grown up in a religious atmosphere at home, he underwent a deep spiritual crisis at the start of his youth. His well-studied knowledge led him to question the existence of God and for some time he believed in Agnosticism. Yet he could not completely ignore the existence of a Supreme Being. He became associated with Brahmo Movement led by Keshab Chandra Sen, for some time. The Bramho Samaj recognised one God unlike the idol-worshipping, superstition-ridden Hinduism. The host of philosophical questions regarding the existence of God roiling through his mind remained unanswered. During this spiritual crisis, Vivekananda first heard about Sri Ramakrishna from William Hastie, the Principal of the Scottish Church College.
Earlier, to satisfy his intellectual quest for God, Narendranath visited prominent spiritual leaders from all religions, asking them a single question, “Have you seen God?” Each time he came away without a satisfying answer. He put forward the same question to Sri Ramkrishna at his residence in Dakshinewar Kali Temple compounds. Without a moment's hesitation, Sri Ramakrishna replied: "Yes, I have. I see God as clearly as I see you, only in a much deeper sense." Vivekananda, initially unimpressed by the simplicity of Ramkrishna, was astonished with Ramakrishna's reply. Ramakrishna gradually won over this argumentative young man with his patience and love. The more Narendranath visited Dakshineshwar, the more his questions were answered.
Spiritual Awakening
In 1884, Naredranath underwent a considerable financial distress due to the death of his father as he had to support his mother and younger siblings. He asked Ramakrishna to pray to the Goddess for the financial welfare of his family. On Ramakrishna’s suggestion he himself went to the temple to pray. But once he faced the Goddess he could not ask for money and wealth, instead he asked for ‘Vivek’ (conscience) and ‘Bairagya’ (reclusion). That day marked the complete spiritual awakening of Narendranath and he found himself drawn to an ascetic way of life.
Life of a Monk
During the middle of 1885, Ramakrishna, who had been suffering from throat cancer, fell seriously ill. In September 1885, Sri Ramakrishna was moved to Shyampukur in Culcutta, and a few months later Narendranath took a rented villa at Cossipore. Here, he formed a group of young people who were ardent followers of Sri Ramakrishna and together they nursed their Guru with devoted care. On 16 August 1886, Sri Ramakrishna gave up his mortal body.
After the demise of Sri Ramakrishna, around fifteen of his disciples including Narendranath began to live together in a dilapidated building at Baranagar in North Calcutta, which was named Ramakrishna Math, the monastic order of Ramakrishna. Here, in 1887, they formally renounced all ties to the world and took vows of monkhood. The brotherhood rechristened themselves and Narendranath emerged as Vivekananda meaning "the bliss of discerning wisdom".
The brotherhood lived off on alms donated voluntarily by patrons during holy begging or ‘madhukari’, performed yoga and meditation. Vivekananda left the Math in 1886 and went on a tour of India on foot as a ‘Parivrajak’. He travelled the breadth of the country, absorbing much of the social, cultural and religious aspects of the people he came in contact with. He witnessed the adversities of life that the common people faced, their ailments, and vowed to dedicate his life to bring relief to these suffering.
Lecture at the World Parliament of Religions
During the course of his wanderings, he came to know about the World Parliament of Religions being held in Chicago, America in 1893. He was keen to attend the meeting, to represent India, Hinduism and his Guru Sri Ramakrishna’s philosophies. He found assertion of his wishes while he was meditating on the rocks of Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of India. Money was raised by his disciples in Madras (now Chennai) and Ajit Singh, Raja of Khetri, and Vivekananda left for Chicago on May 31, 1893 from Bombay.
He faced insurmountable hardships on his way to Chicago, but his spirits remained as indomitable as ever. On 11 September 1893, when the time came, he took the stage and stunned everyone with his opening line “My brothers and sisters of America”. He received a standing ovation from the audience for the opening phrase. He went on to describe the principles of Vedanta and their spiritual significance, putting Hinduism on the map of World Religions.
He spent the next two and a half years in America and founded the Vedanta Society of New York in 1894. He also travelled to the United Kingdom to preach the tenets of the Vedanta and Hindu Spiritualism to the western world.
Teachings and Ramakrishna Mission
Vivekananda returned to India in 1897 amidst warm reception from the common and royal alike. He reached Calcutta after a series of lectures across the country and founded the Ramakrishna Mission on May 1, 1897 at Belur Math near Calcutta. The goals of the Ramakrishna Mission were based on the ideals of Karma Yoga and its primary objective was to serve the poor and distressed population of the country. The Ramakrishna Mission undertook various forms of social service like establishing and running school, collages and hospitals, propagation of practical tenets of Vedanta through conference, seminars and workshops, initiating relief and rehabilitation work across the country.
His religious conscience was an amalgamation of Sri Ramakrishna’s spiritual teachings of Divine manifestation and his personal internalization of the Advaita Vedanta philosophy. He directed to achieve the divinity of the soul by undertaking selfless work, worship and mental discipline. According to Vivekananda, the ultimate goal is to achieve freedom of the soul and that encompasses the entirety of one’s religion.
Swami Vivekananda was a prominent nationalist, and had the overall welfare of his countrymen topmost in his mind. He urged his fellow countrymen to “Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached”.
Swami Vivekananda had predicted that he will not live till the age of forty. On July 4, 1902, he went about his days’ work at the Belur Math, teaching Sanskrit grammar to the pupils. He retired to his room in the evening and died during meditation at around 9. He is said to have attained ‘Mahasamadhi’ and the great saint was cremated on the Banks of river Ganga.
Swami Vivekananda revealed to the world the true foundations of India's unity as a nation. He taught how a nation with such a vast diversity can be bound together by a feeling of humanity and brother-hood. Vivekananda emphasized the points of drawbacks of western culture and the contribution of India to overcome those. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose once said: "Swamiji harmonized the East and the West, religion and science, past and present. And that is why he is great. Our countrymen have gained unprecedented self-respect, self-reliance and self-assertion from his teachings." Vivekananda was successful in constructing a virtual bridge between the culture of East and the West. He interpreted the Hindu scriptures, philosophy and the way of life to the Western people. He made them realize that in spite of poverty and backwardness, India had a great contribution to make to world culture. He played a key role in ending India's cultural isolation from the rest of the world.
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Swami Vivekananda (1863 – 1902) (born Narendranath Dutta) was a well-known and influential Hindu spiritual leader who played a seminal role in re-articulating Hinduism for modern times, defending Hindu beliefs from the attacks of Christian missionaries, introducing Hinduism to a North American audience, and establishing the Ramakrishna Mission to help the poor. He was the chief disciple of the Hindu saint Ramakrishna , and later became the leader of the Vedanta Society in India and abroad. He worked to combine the spirituality of Hinduism with the technological progress of the West. Influenced by Ramakrishna’s mystical teaching of seeing God in all beings, Vivekananda believed that spirituality should encompass social service toward others as a form of worship. After the death of his guru , he founded the Ramakrishna Mission, an organization which combines worship with service toward humankind.
Swami Vivekananda was born to Bengali Kayastha (in Bengal the Kayastha scribes evolved into a caste regarded as the "highest Hindu caste" alongside Brahmins ) parents in Kolkata . He was given the name Narendranath Dutta. His father was a successful lawyer, and his family hoped that he would follow in his footsteps. However, his paternal grandfather was a sannyasin, or one who has renounced the world, and as a boy, Swami Vivekananda demonstrated a proclivity for this lifestyle. He was reported to have entered deep states of meditation as a boy. According to one story, at age eight, he became so immersed in meditation that he remained in a calm state even as a vicious cobra approached him. He claimed to have received visions of the Buddha and of the Hindu god Shiva , demonstrating his fascination with mendicants. Swami Vivekananda also demonstrated a high level of intelligence as a boy. He studied Western philosophy, such as Kant , as well as Eastern works, such as the Upanishads and the Brahma-sutra. Being raised in a cosmopolitan household, Swami Vivekananda demonstrated interest in culture and philosophy from European and Islamic countries, as well as India.
In 1881, Swami Vivekananda met his future guru, Sri Ramakrishna . It is widely believed that he visited Ramakrishna at the behest of a college professor, who encouraged his students to visit the saint to better understand the concept of samadhi (a meditative state of complete awareness). At the time, Swami Vivekananda was a member of Brahmo Samaj, a social and religious group that believed all religions are legitimate pathways to God , and that concepts such as caste and idol worship were outdated. The Brahmo Samaj also advocated the idea that service to humanity is an important form of worship, and thus, worked to end child marriage and illiteracy among women and the poor. Though Swami Vivekananda was impressed with Ramakrishna’s devotion, he disliked his apparent idol worship and lack of emphasis on social concerns. According to some scholars, Ramakrishna developed a liking for the young college student which bordered on infatuation. Ramakrishna was reported to have wept for Swami Vivekananda if he did not visit him regularly. Feeling somewhat uncomfortable with the saint’s infatuation with him, Swami Vivekananda stopped his visits.
In 1884, Swami Vivekananda’s father died, leaving his family in poverty. After completing college, Vivekananda failed to find employment. Confronted with such harsh realities, he began to question the existence of God. He returned to Ramakrishna, and asked for his help. Under Ramakrishna’s guidance, Swami Vivekananda underwent a spiritual transformation. He began to understand Ramakrishna’s concept of God; that God can exist both with and without a name and form, and that divinity exists in all beings. Swami Vivekananda soon began the life of sannyasi. Before dying in 1886, Ramakrishna instructed Swami Vivekananda to act as a guru to Ramakrishna’s disciples, and to teach the world his message. Some traditions state that Ramakrishna transferred his spiritual powers to Swami Vivekananda to help him with this task. Swami Vivekananda instructed the disciples for a year, but felt his faith diminishing. In 1890, he traveled around India, and eventually arrived at a personal philosophy that combined Ramakrishna’s bhakti, or devotion, the teachings of the Hindu philosophical school of Advaita Vedanta , and service to humanity.
Changing his name from Narendranath to Swami Vivekananda, he traveled to Chicago in 1893 to speak at the World’s Parliament of Religions to share Hindu spiritual insights. He gave a dynamic speech about the universal truths of Hinduism , and was considered to be one of the most successful speakers at the Parliament. He described Hinduism as a religion which had important teachings to offer a Western audience. Gathering a few Western disciples, Swami Vivekananda worked to spread Hinduism to the West. In 1895, he founded the Vedanta Society in New York City . He eventually recruited swamis to lead centers in Boston and London .
In 1897, Swami Vivekananda returned to India with several Western disciples. The Indian media lauded Swami Vivekananda’s travels as triumphant. However, former disciples of Ramakrishna were unhappy about his unorthodox ideas, and perceived him as having been tainted by the West. Many felt that Swami Vivekananda’s love for the West compromised his loyalty to India. A few of these former disciples also disliked Swami Vivekananda’s emphasis on social service as opposed to worship. Eventually, Swami Vivekananda convinced them that Ramakrishna himself wanted his disciples to focus on serving the poor, and most of the former disciples joined him. On May 1, 1897, Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission , an organization which combines spiritual practice with philanthropic acts. By 1899, the Ramakrishna Mission was an established worldwide organization. He traveled abroad once more from 1899 till 1900, visiting friends. Upon returning to India , Swami Vivekananda occasionally gave lectures to students. He died on July 4, 1902.
Swami Vivekananda’s teachings combine devotion, mysticism, and philosophy with his own practical emphasis on service to humankind. He believed that philosophy in the Indian context should not merely focus on personal salvation, but should be applied in everyday actions. He generally ascribed to the Advaita Vedanta school of philosophy. It states that individual selves or souls are not separate or different from one another, but are all part of an unchanging, non-dual reality known as Brahman . Thus, if everything that appears to exist is essentially part of a greater reality, service toward others is essentially service to Brahman. Although Swami Vivekananda cites Advaitic teachings as his philosophical basis for philanthropy, scholars generally agree that his travels to the West and his contact with Christians influenced him considerably. When Vivekananda traveled abroad in the 1890s, Christian organizations in America were working to help the people who were left homeless and unemployed, due to an economic recession. This was likely the first time Swami Vivekananda experienced religious social activism on such a large scale. Some scholars believe that it was these interactions that encouraged him to form the Ramakrishna Mission , rather than the teachings of Advaita Vedanta.
Swami Vivekananda was generally critical of the caste system , and advocated education for women and the poor. He taught his followers that in order for India to move forward as a country, it must not cling to outdated concepts. However, according to some biographers, when traveling abroad, he often defended the caste system as an organized form of the hierarchy that exists in every society. Similarly, Swami Vivekananda also defended the marginalization of women. He described Hindu women as being more spiritual, and therefore superior to Western women. Thus, he attributed their limited participation in society to their virtue and chastity, rather than an unjust social structure. Nevertheless, upon returning to India, he made helping women and the poor a priority of the Ramakrishna Mission. Although Swami Vivekananda convinced others that his ideas about social service had come from Ramakrishna himself, this is highly unlikely, as Ramakrishna’s main focus was worship. Thus, the combination of Hindu philosophy and philanthropy can be considered an important contribution of Swami Vivekananda.
Swami Vivekananda influenced many of his contemporaries as well as future leaders. Rabrindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo , and Mahatma Gandhi often spoke of Swami Vivekananda’s influence on them, and on Hinduism in general. His work abroad succeeded in bringing Hinduism to the West with the founding of the Vedanta Society and the Ramakrishna Mission. Most importantly, his emphasis on service as spirituality has led to the adoption of this practice among many Hindus.
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Vivekananda (born January 12, 1863, Calcutta [now Kolkata]—died July 4, 1902, near Calcutta) was a Hindu spiritual leader and reformer in India who attempted to combine Indian spirituality with Western material progress, maintaining that the two supplemented and complemented one another. His Absolute was a person’s own higher self; to labour for the benefit of humanity was the noblest endeavour.
Born into an upper-middle-class family of the Kayastha (scribes) caste in Bengal , he was educated at a Western-style university where he was exposed to Western philosophy , Christianity , and science . Social reform became a prominent element of Vivekananda’s thought, and he joined the Brahmo Samaj (Society of Brahma), dedicated to eliminating child marriage and illiteracy and determined to spread education among women and the lower castes. He later became the most-notable disciple of Ramakrishna , who demonstrated the essential unity of all religions .
Always stressing the universal and humanistic side of the Vedas , the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism , as well as belief in service rather than dogma , Vivekananda attempted to infuse vigour into Hindu thought, placing less emphasis on the prevailing pacifism and presenting Hindu spirituality to the West. He was an activating force in the movement to promote Vedanta philosophy (one of the six schools of Indian philosophy ) in the United States and England . In 1893 he appeared in Chicago as a spokesman for Hinduism at the World’s Parliament of Religions and so captivated the assembly that a newspaper account described him as “an orator by divine right and undoubtedly the greatest figure at the Parliament.” Thereafter he lectured throughout the United States and England, making converts to the Vedanta movement.
On his return to India with a small group of Western disciples in 1897, Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission at the monastery of Belur Math on the Ganges (Ganga) River near Calcutta (now Kolkata ). Self-perfection and service were his ideals, and the order continued to stress them. He adapted and made relevant to the 20th century the very highest ideals of the Vedantic religion , and, although he lived only two years into that century, he left the mark of his personality on East and West alike.
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I and II), the most comprehensive biography of Swami Vivekananda in Bengali. His other books include Amritarashodhara (lyrical form of The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna), and Sonar Chele Narendranath (a book in Bengali on the life of Swami Vivekananda). Swami Vivekananda—A Great Son of India, Biography of Vivekananda in short for students.
Vedanta. Vivekananda (born January 12, 1863, Calcutta [now Kolkata]—died July 4, 1902, near Calcutta) was a Hindu spiritual leader and reformer in India who attempted to combine Indian spirituality with Western material progress, maintaining that the two supplemented and complemented one another. His Absolute was a person's own higher self ...
Svāmī Vivekānanda. Svāmī Vivekānanda (Bengali: স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ Shami Bibekanondo; tiếng Anh: Swami Vivekananda), tên khai sinh là Narendranath Dutta (Nôrendronath Dotto) (12 tháng 1 năm 1863 - 4 tháng 7 năm 1902) là một tu sĩ Ấn Độ giáo Ấn Độ, một trong những lãnh tụ tinh thần nổi tiếng nhất và có ảnh hưởng ...
Both Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo are credited with having founded the basis for a vision of freedom and glory for India in the spirituality and heritage of Hinduism. ... The Bengali Hindu Homeland Movement refers to the movement of the Bengali Hindu people for the Partition of Bengal in 1947 to create a homeland for themselves within ...