Swami Vivekananda was a Hindu monk, spiritual leader, preacher, and reformer in India. He was born as Narendranath Datta in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1863. He became a follower of the Hindu mystic Ramakrishna who initiated Narendranath in 1886. Ramakrishna espoused a form of inclusive Advaita Vedanta philosophy. Vivekananda then wandered across India as an ascetic before attending the World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. He traveled the world promulgating Vedanta philosophy before returning to India in 1897, after which he founded the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. He died in 1902 at the age of 39.
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