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Statue of Vivekananda at the Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House and Cultural Centre. Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Datta (name shortened to Narendra or Naren) [18] in a Bengali Kayastha family [19] [20] in his ancestral home at 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee Street in Calcutta, [21] the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival. [22]
Vishwanath was born to an aristocratic Hindu family of North Calcutta. His father Durgaprasad (1816—1850/55) had preferred the life of Sannyas and left home when Vishwanath was only six years old. His mother Shyamasundari Devi was an educated woman.
Swami Vivekananda devoted the initial few days in teaching her about India and its people, and helping her develop the love for the people; he was broadening her character. He explained India's history, philosophy, literature, the life of the common mass, social traditions, and also the lives of great personalities, both ancient and modern, to her.
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In 1895, she began attending classes in New York City that were being taught by the Hindu monk and philosopher Swami Vivekananda. [6] [7] During this time, she began dating Francis Howard Leggett, a wealthy New York wholesale grocer from a family with colonial New York roots, and he began attending the classes with her.
Swami Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Indian Hindu monk, is considered one of the most influential people of modern India and Hinduism. Rabindranath Tagore suggested to study Vivekananda's works to learn about India. Indian independence activist Subhas Chandra Bose regarded Vivekananda as his spiritual teacher.
English: Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House, Cultural Centre and museum in north Kolkata, India. That constructed and maintained by the Ramakrishna Mission, where Narendranath Dutta (Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)) born and spend his childhood and pre-monastic life.
The main person in this image Swami Vivekananda (standing third from the left in this photo)– a social reformer — his birthday is celebrated in India as National Youth Day. Moreover 2013 is being celebrated as Swami Vivekananda's 150th birth anniversary. More details on the people in the image may be found in the file description page.