Complete biography of swami vivekananda religions

Swami Vivekananda (1863 – 1902) (born Narendranath Dutta) was a well-known and influential Hindu spiritual leader who played a seminal role in re-articulating Hinduism for modern times, defending Hindu beliefs from the attacks of Christian missionaries, introducing Hinduism to a North American audience, and establishing the Ramakrishna Mission to help the poor. He was the chief disciple of the Hindu saint Ramakrishna, and later became the leader of the Vedanta Society in India and abroad. He worked to combine the spirituality of Hinduism with the technological progress of the West. Influenced by Ramakrishna’s mystical teaching of seeing God in all beings, Vivekananda believed that spirituality should encompass social service toward others as a form of worship. After the death of his guru, he founded the Rama