India is a land of saints. Swami Vivekananda is remembered as a modern heroic saint of India. He was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1863 in a respectable family. His spirit and religious temperament were marked even in his childhood bearing. His original name was Narendranath Dutta. At that time he first heard about Sri Ramakrishna from one of his English professors at college. One day in November 1881, Narendra met Sri Ramakrishna who was staying at the Kali Temple in Dakshineshwar. He straightaway asked the Master a question that he had put to several others but had received no satisfactory answer: “Sir, have you seen God?” Without a moment’s hesitation, Sri Ramakrishna replied: “Yes, I have. I see him as clearly as I see you, only in a much more intense sense.” Apart from removing doubts from their mind of Narendra, Sri Ramakrishna won him over through his pure, unselfish love. Sri Ramakrishna transformed his favorite disciple Narendranath into Swami Vivekananda for the same purpose. The difference is that in the latter instance, the transformation was gradual and it continued even after the Master left the mortal world. His speeches at the World’s Parliament of Religions held in September 1893 made him famous as an ‘orator by divine right’ and as a ‘Messenger of Indian wisdom to the Western world’. After the Parliament, Swamiji spent nearly three and a half years spreading Vedanta as lived and taught by Sri Ramakrishna, mostly in the eastern parts of the USA and also in London. He returned to India in January 1897. In response to the enthusiastic welcome he received everywhere, he delivered a series of lectures in different parts of India, creating a great stir all over the country. Through these inspiring and profoundly significant lectures Swamiji attempted to rouse the religious consciousness of the people and create in them pride in their cultural heritage; to bring about the unification of Hinduism by pointing out the common bases of its sects. He founded on 1 May 1897 a unique type of organization known as Ramakrishna Mission, in which monks and lay people would jointly undertake propagation of Practical Vedanta, and various forms of social services, such as running hospitals, schools, colleges, hostels, rural development centers, etc, and conducting massive relief and rehabilitation work for victims of earthquakes, cyclones, and other calamities, in different parts of India and other countries. He always wanted to face God. Meeting with Shree Ramakrishna was the turning point of this life. He became a disciple of Ramakrishna and traveled all over India on foot. He came to be known as Swami Vivekananda. Swamiji introduced the Indian philosophy of Hinduism in western countries. He firmly opposed the caste system and untouchability. When one starts reading more and more about Swamiji, his words will change one’s life forever. He will quit all his bad habits and start practicing meditation to transform himself into a good person academically. Every child must be taught the discipline Swamiji has left for us. He should be considered the master of every youth