Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda

Narendranath Dutta, born on 12 January 1863 when India was under British rule, took the monastic name Swami Vivekananda after his Guru Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa gave up his mortal body in August 1886. Swami, meaning the Master of himself, is the monastic title after renunciation. Vivek in Sanskrit means the power of discernment.  Narendra was…
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