National Youth Day: Tribute to Swami Vivekananda
Every year, since 1984, January 12 is observed as National Youth Day in order to mark the birth anniversary of scholar, spiritual leader, and philosopher Swami Vivekananda.
Swami Vivekananda
- He was born on 12th January 1863 in a Bengali family in Calcutta and was originally named Narendranath Datta.
- Vivekananda was influenced by the Brahmo Samaj and western Universalism and esotericism, and by his guru Ramakrishna, who regarded the Absolute and the relative reality to be non-dual aspects of the same integral reality.
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- He was one of India’s greatest spiritual leaders and inspired the youth of India to become ....
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