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Life and teaching of Vivekananda

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Vivekananda : Biography

Hindu mystic, major exponent of Vedanta philosophy. He was born of a well-to-do family in Calcutta, and his given name was Narendra Nath Datta. As a young man he met Ramakrishna and thereafter devoted himself completely to his teachings. After Ramakrishna’s death in 1886, he traveled throughout India as a wandering monk. In 1893 he went to the United States where he represented Hinduism at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. After four years of teaching in the West he returned to India, where he organized the Ramakrishna Mission and engaged in a strenuous campaign to encourage a national renaissance.

Source : The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2003 Columbia University Press.

Vivekananda : Bibliography

- Inana-yoga.
- Jnâna-Yoga
- Entretiens inspirés et autres récits.
- Karma-yoga
- La vie de vivekananda
- Entretiens et causeries
- Râja yoga

Vivekananda : Portraits

Vivekananda

Vivekananda : Links

The quotes of Vivekananda

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