
Swami Vivekananda is young star for ever most of the youth is inspired by him and his quotations, sayings, teachings that made him to be young star for ever...he was Born on 12th January 1863 on Monday at Shimla Pally, Calcutta,India at 6:33 a.m during eve of Makara Sankranthi Festival, his real name was Narendranath dutta his guru was Ramakrishna Parmahamsa,
His Father Vishwanath Datta worked in Calcutta High court, His mother Bhuvenshwari Devi was a devotee of shiva she prayed Shiva to give her a son, one day she reportedly had a dream in which Shiva rose form his meditation and said her he would born as her son,
Viveka Nanda's taughts and feelings was influenced by his parents he was a brilliant student he completed Bachelor of Arts in 1884 according to his professors he was the genius, he showed much interest on Vedas Upanishadas,Bhagavad Gita,Ramayana, Mahabharata and the puranas and music , Viveka Nanda never believed any thing until he experience it practically in his early days he struggled a lot by a question i.e "Do you believe in god?" he got answer to this question after he met his guru Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Viveka Nanda's meeting with Ramakrishna Paramhamsa happend due to another doubt, one of his lecturer suggested him to meet Ramakrishna Paramahamsa to know meaning of a particular word "Trance" some of his students including Vivek Nanda went to meet Ramkrishna Paramahamsa,
His meeting with Ramkrishna Paramahamsa in November 1881 has become turning point in his life, Initally Vivek Nankda has not accepted Ramkrishna Paramahamsa as his guru, he was very much impressed to Ramkrishna Paramahamsa's personality that made Viveka Nanda to visit him day by day, all ways Ramakrishna answered to Viveka Nanda try to see the truth from all the angles, Viveka Nanda admired Ramakrishna who is ready to sacrifice any thing for the sake of God-realization, In time Viveka Nanda accepted Ramakrishna has his guru with whole hearted and complete surrendering as disciple, after the death of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa in 1886 August16, Viveka Nanda and other disciples of Ramakrishna underwent religious practice at Baranagore Math which was established by them, In 1887 Viveka Nanda and eight other disciples took monastic vows, then he changed his name as Swami Vividishananda til then he was called as Narendranath Datta, Swami started burning out the ignorence among the pupil about hindusim and the holyness of religion he made him self dedicated in shareing the knowledge and awakeing the world, he can be called as a messenger of god in 20th century he never allowed him and his disciples to enjoy the louxry life, he ordered his disciples to teach medetaion to all the classes of the society irrespective of status and religious...his belief was "jiva is shiva" this is the lesson told to him by his guru and he also belive in "serving the man is as worth as serving the god", his lectures travelled all over the world the speech which he delivered about hinduism and Bhagavad Gita in chicago made him popular in America, he started his speech by wishing my dear brothers and sisters of america he got standing ovation form 7000 crowd for 2min after that speech his knowledge travelled all over the western side, many of the westerners became his students and followers he founded "Vedanta Society of New York" , he recived tow academic offers, one as chair person of Estern Philosophy in Harvard University and similar position at Columbia University but he declined it and said this would not give any satisfaction to him and he could no settel down to work there, for a common man it is a big offer but for a man with tremounduos knowledge and ideas it is as worth as asking a emperior to work for a small town ...he want his lief to be spent in growing awareness among the pupil about the devineness of god and let their lief much holier, he wants ever one to come across the purpose of life..he worte many books and sayed many inspiration quotetions for the better life of society, one of his famous quote
"Arise, awake,and stop not till the goal is reached" its just a single line which contains enormous power to break the toughst goals in the lief if we follow, this quote is just a tiny drop ,his teachings influnced thinking of the national leaders and philosphers, like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, Aurobindo Ghosh, Radhakrishnan and still inspiring the indian youth, he sacrifaiced his life for serving the pupil and filling confedence in them by his teachings that made him the legend of 20th century and further...on 1st May 1897 Swami founded Ramakrishna Math in calcutta this is the begning to help the poor for good education and medical , even in his last days also Viveka Nanda guided the future work of Rama Krishna Mission, his tours hectic lecturing engagements, private discussions had shown a bad impact on his health, he suffered with Asthma,diabates and other physical ailments he remarked to several persons that he would not live to be forty,
on the day of his death, he took some classes on Vedas at Belur Math and gave instructions for the future of Rama Krishna math, he left his physical body and enterd into millions of hearts on July 4 1902 he is stll alive in the hearts of indian youth...that's why he is called as "Young Star For Ever".