Swami Vivekananda Biography 2020 : Early Life, Education, Spiritual, Works, Lecture, Death
Swami Vivekananda, the Hindu monk and idol of youth, was born on 12 January 1863 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
His childhood name was Narendranath Datta and nickname was Bille.
His father, Vishwanath Datta was an educated man and worked as an attorney at the Calcutta High Court.
His mother, Bhubaneswari Devi, was a devout housewife. In childhood, Narendra was a very infantile boy but he was a brilliant boy too.
Education
At the age of eight, he has admitted to the Metropolitan institution Kolkata.
Then he was attached to Presidency College in Calcutta.
From there he has completed his education. During this time, he became very interested in Hindu mythology.
He started studying Hindu scriptures, including the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and the Puranas.
He learn everything with logic.
His love with Indian classical music help him to expert in his magical journey.
Apart from this, he learned many arts subjects like history, philosophy, social science, religion, art, and literature
Spiritual Crisis: Attached with Brahmo Samaj
From the year 1880, the path of his life changed.
He was first attached with Nava Vidhan formed by Keshab Chandra Sen.
For some time he was associated with Brahmo Movement led by Keshab Chandra Sen.
Relationship with Ramkrishna Paramhansa
This was the turning point of his life.
William Hastie was the Principal of the Scottish Church College.
One day he invites Vivekananda, where he first heard about Sri Ramakrishna from him and he was interested to know about the man.
In the year 1881 for the first time, Narendra and Ramakrishna were met with each other.
He came to meet Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa Deb for the first time when he visited Dakshineswar.
That time the meeting was general from Narendra's end but Ramkrishna realizes the mind power of Narendra.
The actual spirituality happened after 1884 after his father died.
Then he used to come to Dakshineswar frequently and meet Ramakrishna.
Her life began to change slowly.
The founding of first Ramakrishna Math
In the year 1897, Narendra arrived in Baranagar with his small group of Western disciples.
He has founded two monasteries in the name of his teacher, Sri Ramakrishna.
One monastery was at Belur the bank of Ganga River and another was at Uttrakhand.
Belur Math became the headquarters of Ramakrishna Mission and the second one at Mayavati.
It was called Advaita Ashrama, situated on the Himalayas foothill, in Champawat District, Uttrakhand,.
Narendranath took the name "
Swami Vivekananda" and started spreading Hinduism all over the world.
Lecture at the World Parliament of Religions
After becoming Swami Ji, Vivekananda continued to move around and he came to know about the World Parliament of Religions being held in Chicago, America in 1893.
He decided to go there.
11 September 1893 is the biggest day of Indian history.
In the crowded hall, he came as an Indian representative and start his speech with the words “My brothers and sisters of America”.
Everybody in the hall was tuned after that.
He started to spread Vedanta and the benefits of Yoga to the western world. He was the icon of the 19th-century youth generation.
Death
This is true that
Swami Vivekananda was predicted his death sound. He knows that he will died at the age of 40. And the day comes when he attained Mahasamadhi at Belur math.
On July 9, 12, she disappeared forever.
