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Following the Parliament of Religions, Vivekananda spent nearly two years lecturing in various parts of eastern and central United States, mostly in Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and New York.

By the spring of 1895, his busy and tiring schedule led to poor health.

He stopped lecturing tours, and started giving free and private classes on Vedanta and Yoga.

Starting in June 1895, he conducted private lectures to a dozen of his disciples at the Thousand Island Park in New York for two months.

Vivekananda considered this to be the happiest part of his first visit to America.

He later founded the " Vedanta Society of New York ".