Current Affairs Section
11 September - Digvijay Diwas
- To commemorate Swami Vivekananda gave his landmark speech at the World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago, where he began with words “Sisters and Brothers of America.”
- He was born as Narendranath Datta on 12th January, 1863. National Youth Day is held every year to observe the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.
- In 1893, upon the request of Maharaja Ajit Singh of the Khetri State, he took the name ‘Vivekananda.
- Introduced the world to the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga.
- He preached ‘neo-Vedanta’, an interpretation of Hinduism through a Western lens, and believed in combining spirituality with material progress.
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had called Vivekananda the “maker of modern India.”
- He was the chief disciple of the 19th -century mystic Ramakrishna Paramhansa and established the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897.
Category: Important Days