All of you have heard about Swami Vivekananda but might be you are not knowing about some of his views and events occurred in his life.
I am not going to tell you about where he was born or who were his parents but some specific events and views of his life.
He was born in the dead of the night would still have brought everybody the hope of a new beginning.
He was born in a family of three generations of highly successful and rich lawyers. This is quite an interesting fact.
He inherits law 'in his blood'.
We all have a very close relationship with our parents. For me, my father is my inspiration. And for you also your father is an inspiration to you. Father has a special place in all of our life.
The incident of the death of his father was the most woeful happening of his life.
Like us, he to had a deep attachment with his father. He once said that he owed his intellect and compassion from his father.
When his father died, he was just twenty-one.
And after his father's death all the responsibilities of his family came on his shoulder and then he wanders from office to office in search of a job and finally found a job in Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's school.
What an irony perhaps is in this. Today, there might be any office in Calcutta who does not hold the portrait of Swami Vivekananda on their wall.
At once these offices had slammed thir doors for a job to Swami Vivekananda.
He gained his knowledge for serving others and opting sannyasin Jeevan from his mentor Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
He heard about him first time from his professor William Hastie.
" I am not a pauranic sannyasin" Swami Vivekananda declared with authority
You might be wonder or stunned by reading the statement above. I was also stunned and amazed by reading the statement first time like you.
You might think what is pauranic sannyasin or new sannyasin? A sannyasin is sannyasin.
But this was not the view of his. According to him pauranic idea of sannyasa, concentrated on one's self depending all the times upon others for something or the other.
After reading these few events and views of him, I am sure that now you have also become one of his devotee.
