Biography of Swami Vivekanand Ji

-Swami Vivekananda was born in 12 January 1863 and he died in 4 July 1902 at the age 39.

•His father name was Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, 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.

• He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India.

• Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission.


•He is perhaps best known for his speech which began, "Sisters and brothers of America.

• In which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.


•Born into an aristocratic Bengali family of Calcutta, Vivekananda was inclined towards spirituality.

•He was influenced by his Guru, Ramakrishna Deva, from whom he learnt that all living beings were an embodiment of the divine self.

•After Ramakrishna's death, Vivekananda toured the Indian subcontinent extensively and acquired first-hand knowledge of the conditions prevailing in British India.

• 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 Hindu philosophy in the United States, England and Europe.

• In India, Vivekananda is regarded as a patriotic saint and his birthday is celebrated there as National Youth Day.

•Many people influenced by him as-

-Subhas Chandra Bose
-Aurobindo Ghose
- Bagha Jatin
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Rabindranath Tagore,
-Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
- Jawaharlal Nehru,
-Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Jamsetji Tata
-Nikola Tesla
-Sarah Bernhardt
-Emma Calvé
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
-Annie Besant
-Romain Rolland
-Anna Hazare
- Narendra Modi.

•His famous Quotation~
"Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached".