Write thoughts on Swami Vivekananda.
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Swami Vivekananda (1863—1902)[1] was an Indian Hindu monk and a key figure in the introduction of Indian philosophies of Vedantaand Yoga to the western world.[2] He was one of the most influential philosophers and social reformers in his contemporary India and the most successful and influential missionaries of Vedanta to the Western world.[3][4] Indian Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore's suggested to study the works of Vivekananda to understand India. He also told, in Vivekananda there was nothing negative, but everything positive.[5]
In last one century, hundreds of scholarly books have been written on Vivekananda, his works and his philosophy in different languages.Sister Nivedita, who was a disciple and a friend of Vivekananda, wrote two books The Master as I Saw Him and Notes of some wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda. The first one was published in 1910 and the second one was published in 1913.[6] Sister Gargi's lifelong research work, a series of six volumes of books, Swami Vivekananda in the West: New Discoveries was first published in two volumes in 1957. In 1983-87 these series was republished in six volumes.[7] Bengali scholar and critic Sankari Prasad Basu, who was a director of Swami Vivekananda Archives, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture wrote several books on Vivekananda such asVivekananda o Samakalin Bharatbarsha ((Bengali) 7 volumes), Sahasya Vivekananda (Bengali), Bandhu Vivekananda (Bengali) etc.[8]