Indian Hindu monk and philosopher (1863–1902)
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The monk who walked into the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago and opened with "Sisters and brothers of America" — then proceeded to introduce Hindu philosophy to the West with such force that an American newspaper called him "an orator by divine right and undoubtedly the greatest figure at the Parliament."
Born Narendranath Datta in 1863, he met the mystic Ramakrishna at 18 and became his chief disciple, eventually taking vows as a renunciate. After Ramakrishna's death, he wandered the Indian subcontinent as a monk, witnessing the brutal conditions of the masses under British rule and searching for ways to ease their suffering — but lacking capital. His 1893 trip to Chicago changed that: his landmark address on religious tolerance and Hindu thought made him famous, and he spent the next years lecturing across the United States, Britain, and Europe, disseminating Vedanta and Yoga while founding t…
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To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul; “at my will mountains will crumble up”.
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms.
If I do an evil action, I must suffer for it; there is no power in this universe to stop or stay it.
The highest truth is this: God is present in all beings. They are His multiple forms. There is no other God to seek. . . . It is a man-making religion that we want. . . .
And may I ask you, Europeans, what country you have ever raised to better conditions? Wherever you have found weaker races, you have exterminated them by the roots, as it were.
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