![]() ![]() Read about Swami Vivekanand’s Chicago Speech His speech made the culture and heritage of India popular. Swamiji represented Sanatana Dharma at the World’s Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893. The progressive, rational attitude of Narendra’s father and the religious temperament of his mother helped shape his thinking and personality. His mother, Bhubaneswari Devi, was a devout housewife. His father, Vishwanath Datta, was an attorney at the Calcutta High Court and his grandfather Durgacharan Datta was a Sanskrit and Persian scholar who left his family and became a monk at age twenty-five. Swami Vivekananda was born Narendranath Datta (Narendra or Naren) in a Bengali family at his ancestral home in Calcutta, the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival. At 7:00 pm Vivekananda went to his room, asking not to be disturbed. Later discussing with colleagues a planned Vedic college in the Ramakrishna Math. He taught Shukla-Yajur-Veda, Sanskrit grammar, and the philosophy of yoga to pupils. ![]() ![]() On 4 July 1902, Vivekananda awoke early, went to the monastery at Belur Math, and meditated for three hours. ![]()
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