Swami Vivekananda, the philanthropist was born into a Bengali aristocratic family. But the best part is he was deeply inclined towards the mysticism and the spirituality of human being. To many Swami Vivekananda is regarded as the “patriotic saint” and his birthday 12th January is celebrated as “world youth day” all over the world.
Now, do you know the deepest facts about Swami Vivekananda? True but difficult to accept, yet these are the most thought-provoking facts about him that the world needs to know.
- Swami Vivekananda was a connoisseur of tea, the favourite beverage of many people. He was the one who introduced tea in the popular “belur math”. But as usual the Hindu Brahmins were against his thoughts and he fought against the municipality who charged heavy taxes on tea.
- It was none other than Swami Vivekananda who got only 56% in his graduation exam and 47% in the entrance examination of the University. But this person has taken a tour to England and America. Inspiring a person though!
- Nevertheless, Swami Vivekananda was a graduate; he never got a job in his entire career. He went door to door just craving for a single job.
- Swami Vivekananda had equal ideologies and thoughts for everyone but he was strictly against the entry of women in his own hermitage. Even he shouted at his own mother when she came to visit him. He was stern and quite rigid with his rules and regulations.
- Swami Vivekananda had a memory like an elephant. He used to borrow books from a library and returned them on the very next day. The librarian was in misperception that whether he really read those books. On asking him about a book, he stated the exact quote from the book which left the librarian spellbound.
- Swami Vivekananda gave us the best lesson from his own health issues that not to torture our own body for any reason. If it is contrived to do anything then it would ruin the best part of our life.
- The maharaja of Khetri, Ajit Singh regularly sent his mother Rs 100 to get rid of the financial crisis.
- After his father’s death, Swami Vivekananda’s condition turned out to be atrocious. They had to struggle a lot for a single day meal. Especially after the death of his uncle his aunt threw him out of the house and filed a suit against him for the ancestral house. He came out of the issue after fighting the case for 14 years with some financial compensation.
- Swami Vivekananda had 31 ailments in his entire body including insomnia, malaria, migraine, asthma, kidney problem and many more.
- Swami Vivekananda even had the capability of predicting his own death time. He thought that he would not live beyond 40 years. Therefore he tried hard and resolved the court cases of his ancestral house before that only. Surprisingly, he expired at the age of 39 only.