Swami Vivekananda, The Motivation of today's youth.

 Some amazing facts about Swami Vivekananda

• In 1984 the Government of India declared 12 January as National Youth Day on the birthday of Swami Vivekananda and since 1985 in India this day is celebrated as National Youth Day.

• Swamiji was born on January 12, 1863. Vishwanath Datta and Bhuvaneswari Devi were his parents

• This man took Vedanta's philosophy to the West and he also reformed Hinduism drastically.

• In 1882 at a young age he met Ramkrishna and it was an important event of his life.

• In 1983 Swami Vivekananda gave a brief speech at the parliament of World’s Religion held in Chicago. His speech was accepted as one of the greatest speeches.

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• Swami Vivekananda had an immense concentration power to study books within a  short time. He used to borrow books from the library and he returned those books the next day. One day the librarian thought about what he does with the books and asked him. In reply, Swami Vivekananda told him that he studied all the books thoroughly. The librarian didn’t trust him and to judge him he asked some questions on a random page of the book. The librarian was surprised when Swamiji answered him instantly and he also mentioned some of the lines from the same page.

• On 4th July 1902 Swamiji breathed his last at Belur Math.

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