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Few in the west have heard of Swami Vivekananda, who was born 150 years ago this week. Yet this Bengali intellectual, still revered in India, introduced many people to yoga and meditation.
This year marks the 150th birthday of Swami Vivekananda, born January 12, 1863, in Calcutta.
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) is best known in the United States for his groundbreaking speech to the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions in which he introduced Hinduism to America and called for religious tolerance and an end to fanaticism.
The Hindu monk who introduced Hinduism to the United States in the late 19th century.
Swami Vivekananda was not a systematic thinker, though prolific enough in teaching, lecturing, and letter-writing that his collected works run to nine volumes — and that for a man who died before his fortieth birthday. Yet his legacy is arguably great.
Swami Vivekananda, a Vedantic monk who lived at the turn of the 19th Century and is known as the modern father of Raja Yoga, described the path to enlightenment with an analogy of the flight of a bird. He said, “gnana yoga is one wing of the bird and bhakti is the other.
Swami Vivekananda, the patriot saint, the torch bearer of Hinduism, had passed away but his teachings to humanity still lives on. One such teaching which he repeatedly spoke through out his life is about “Karma Yoga” – the concept of work and duty- the Karma Yoga.
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