National Youth Day 2024: 10 Amazing Facts about Swami Vivekananda

Producer: Priyanka Das Editor: Sujata Singh

Swami Vivekananda’s birth date on January 12, 1863, coincided with the Makar Sankranti festival.

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His pre-monastic name was Narendranath Datta.

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He founded two magazines Prabuddha Bharata in English and Udbodhan in Bengali.

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Swami Vivekananda travelled across India for five years from 1888 to 1893.

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He founded the Vedanta Society of New York in November 1894.

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He founded Ramakrishna Mission, a philanthropic foundation on May 1, 1897.

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In 1879, he became the only student to get first-division marks in the Presidency College entrance examination.

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It is believed that Swami Vivekananda predicted his death as he mentioned that he would not live more than 40 years.

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He died unexpectedly when he was 39 years and five months old. The cause of death is believed to be a rupture of a blood vessel in his brain.

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Swami Vivekananda was trained in Indian classical music.

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