A fifth individual whom Drury identified as an important influence upon the New Age movement was the Indian Swami Vivekananda ( 1863 – 1902 ), an adherent of the philosophy of Vedanta who first brought Hinduism to the West in the late 19th century.

Swami Vivekananda (; pronounced: ) ( 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902 ), born Narendra Nath Datta (), was an Indian Hindu monk.

Rabindranath Tagore's suggestion ( to Nobel Laureate Romain Rolland ) was – " If you want to know India, study Vivekananda.

Swami Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Dutta in Calcutta, the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival.

The house of 3, Gour Mohan Mukherjee street, Kolkata, where Vivekananda was born, now it is maintained by the Ramakrishna Mission.

Later he was crowned with the name Vivekananda by Ajit Singh, the Maharaja of Khetri.

Dr. Barrows, the president of the Parliament said, " India, the Mother of religions was represented by Swami Vivekananda, the Orange-monk who exercised the most wonderful influence over his auditors.

The Boston Evening Transcript reported that Vivekananda was " a great favourite at the parliament ... if he merely crosses the platform, he is applauded ".

" Eventually in 1895, money sent by Vivekananda was used to start the periodical Brahmavadin, for the purpose of teaching the Vedanta.

Swami Vivekananda – the photo was taken in Bushnell Studio in San Francisco, 1900.

The Swami Vivekananda temple at Belur Math, on the place where he was cremation | cremated.

Vivekananda died at ten minutes past nine p. m. on 4 July 1902 while he was meditating.

Swami Vivekananda believed that the essence of Hinduism was best expressed in the Vedanta philosophy, based on the interpretation of Adi Shankara.

" Vivekananda drew the attention towards the prevalence of poverty in the country, and maintained that addressing such poverty was prerequisite for the national awakening.

Subhas Chandra Bose also said about Vivekananda, " His personality was rich, profound and complex ... Reckless in his sacrifice, unceasing in his activity, boundless in his love, profound and versatile in his wisdom, exuberant in his emotions, merciless in his attacks but yet simple as a child, he was a rare personality in this world of ours.

" Aurobindo Ghose considered Vivekananda as his spiritual mentor, saying " Vivekananda was a soul of puissance if ever there was one, a very lion among men ..." At the Belur Math, Mahatma Gandhi was heard to say that his whole life was an effort to bring into action the ideas of Vivekananda.

Vittal who was a Vivekananda student later became a lecturer in the mathematics department, then head of the mathematics department, and then principal of the college.

* Bengali book " Swamijir Padaprante " by Swami Abjajananda translated into English by Mrs. Chhaya Ghosh and published by Advaita Ashrama under the title " Monastic Disciples of Swami Vivekananda: Inspiring life stories of some principal disciples of Swami Vivekananda "

Vivekananda observed that human could be classified into four categories — those who were in constant activity, or the worker ; those who were driven by their inner urge, or the emotional ; those who tended to analyse the working of their minds, or the mystical ; and those who weighed everything with reason, or the rational.

Swami Vivekananda also credited Jainism as influencing force behind the Indian culture and said:

" Swami Vivekananda also credited Jainsim as one of the influencing forces behind the Indian culture.

What Vivekananda actually meant by lack of free will was that the will was not " free " because it was heavily influenced by the law of cause and effect —" The will is not free, it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect, but there is something behind the will which is free.

He was also the driving force behind the construction of the Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanyakumari in 1963.

She was very intimate with Sarada Devi, the spiritual consort of Ramakrishna and one of the major influences behind Ramakrishna Mission and also with all brother disciples of Swami Vivekananda.

Historians view that that Vivekananda visited the Swamithope Pathi during his visit to Kanyakumari in December 1892 and he was impressed by the principles behind rituals of this monistic faith, such as wearing a head gear during worship in temple, worshipping in front of mirror etc., and started wearing a turban from then on.

Furthermore, although Atkinson may have travelled to Chicago to visit the 1892-1893 World's Columbian Exposition, where the authentic Indian yogi Swami Vivekananda attracted enthusiastic audiences, he is only known to have taken up residence in Chicago around 1900 and to have passed the Illinois Bar Examination in 1903.

Hindu monks, beginning with Swami Vivekananda, brought yoga to the Western world in the late 19th century.

Swami Vivekananda emphasized the experience of nirvikalpa samadhi as a means to validate religious, transcendental knowledge.

The society attracts college students from all over America to experience monastic life first-hand, study vedanta, practice meditation, and research the lives of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, through its student program.

It was built in 1970 by the Vivekananda Rock Memorial Committee in honour of the visit of the great spiritual teacher Swami Vivekananda to Shripada Parai during the month of December 1892 for deep meditation and enlightenment.

" During his final days, Ramakrishna asked Narendra Nath to take care of other monastic disciples and in turn asked them to look upon Vivekananda as their leader.

Swami Vivekananda and other disciples of Ramakrishna in Baranagar Math, in 1887

With the aid of funds collected by his Madras disciples and Rajas of Mysore, Ramnad, Khetri, Dewans and other followers, Vivekananda left for Chicago on 31 May 1893 from Bombay assuming the name Vivekananda — the name suggested by the Maharaja of Khetri, Ajit Singh.

More than any other single individual of that period Vivekananda had made his contribution to the new awakening of India.

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa had sixteen disciples ( other than Swami Vivekananda ) who became monks of the Ramakrishna Order ; they are often considered his apostles.

Ramakrishna also asked other monastic disciples to look upon Vivekananda as their leader.

The other statue in the area is that of Swami Vivekananda.

Later for clear legal confirmation of these rules, a Trust Deed was registered by Swami Vivekananda and many of the other disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, during 1899-1901.

The work was known, appreciated and quoted by Ramakrishna and his disciple Vivekananda, as well as by other well known gurus such as Sant Shri Asaramji Bapu, Swami Chinmayananda, Ramana Maharshi, Osho and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Swami Vivekananda also joined him in Meerut and they met some other brother disciples.

Devi Multiplex, Janmabhoomi Park, Gandhinagar park and Vivekananda Park are other places people here love to hang out.

If Brunton can not be credited with introducing Yoga to the West because of the existence of other previous luminaries such as Blavatsky, Vivekananda and Yogananda, at least he holds a preeminent position in bringing to the West the best the Orient has to offer: the doctrine of Mentalism.

She attended several other lectures of Swami Vivekananda.

Her works included The Web of Indian Life, which sought to rectify many myths in the Western world about Indian culture and customs, Kali the Mother, The Master as I Saw Him on Swami Vivekananda, Notes of Some Wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda on her travels from Nainital, Almora and other places with Swamiji, The Cradle Tales of Hindusim on the stories from Puranas, Ramayana and Mahabharata, Studies from an Eastern Home, Civil Ideal and Indian Nationality, Hints on National Education in India, Glimpses of Famine and Flood in East Bengal — 1906.