Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda was remembered on his 118th death anniversary on 4 July.
His birthday is declared as National Youth Day (12^th January) to honour his contributions to the country.
He wrote the books named Raja Yoga, Jnana Yoga, and Karma Yoga.
He was an ardent disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India and credited with enlightening the western world about Hinduism.
He is known to have introduced the Hindu philosophies of Yoga and Vedanta to the West.
He formed the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897 to bring noblest ideas to the doorstep of even the poorest and the meanest.
He preached ‘neo-Vedanta’, an interpretation of Hinduism through a Western lens, and believed in combining spirituality with material progress