![]() He is perhaps best known for his speech which began with the words “Sisters and brothers of America …,” in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1893.īorn into an aristocratic Bengali Kayastha family of Calcutta, Vivekananda was inclined towards spirituality. ![]() Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India, and contributed to the concept of Indian nationalism as a tool to fight against the British empire in colonial India. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. Swami Vivekananda ( 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta), was an Indian Hindu monk.
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