As there were no good schools in Raipur his father home schooled him. In 1877 when Naren was in 8th grade his father moved to Raipur in central India and took Naren with him. Somehow this put him in such a deep spiritual state that his relatives had to force open the door and shake him to bring him back to normal consciousness. One day he began play-acting that he was a monk and sat in mock meditation. Though he was mischievous, Naren had a strong spiritual bent and his pranks were always harmless with no evil intent. Growing up Naren was so restless and mischievous that his mom one day remarked, вЂњI prayed to Shiva for a son and he sent me one of his demons!вЂќ Naren was always up to some mischief in the classroom yet he was always able to follow along the class. This easily makes him the Einstein of the spiritual world. This was indeed fortunate as Naren was able to study all the major religious texts and philosophies of both the East and the West and provide a unifying framework that is unparalleled. However it is indeed rare that somebody with the intellect as sharp as NarenвЂ™s achieves enlightenment. Enlightenment comes to people of all types from dullards to those with normal intellect. All he had to do was glance at a page and he could grasp the key points that the author was trying to make. He had the intellect of a genius and a photographic memory. Naren was a brilliant but restless child. It was later said that Naren was in the mould of his grandfather. His grandfather gave up worldly life at a young age and became a monk.

His father was a wealthy lawyer well versed in English and Persian. The name his parents gave him was Narendranath but he was known as Naren. His story begins in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta with his birth on January 12 1863. It was for the first time in modern history that a self realized master of the caliber of Swami Vivekananda was visiting the west.Д«ut who was Swami Vivekananda and how did he come to be enlightened? The story of his spiritual quest and enlightenment was anything but straightforward and makes for fascinating reading. This was a momentous though unlikely journey.

In 1893 Swami Vivekananda visited the US.

Now we take up the story of his foremost disciple Swami Vivekananda. We covered the story of Sri Ramakrishna earlier. Rudyard Kipling famously predicted, вЂњEast is East and West is West, And never the twain shall meet.вЂќ In the late 1800вЂ™s a couple of extraordinary people set out to prove this prediction wrong.

Swami vivekananda story in english