Founded by Swami Vivekananda on April 14, ... To a pious Hindu, a temple is the abode of God and a representation of the omnipresent, cosmic, and transcendental dimension of the creator.

A contemporary of Swami Vivekananda, the famous German thinker Friedrich Neitzsche (1844-1900) declared the ‘death of God.' It was felt that science and rationality were guiding human affairs ...

Vivekananda’s Hinduism, in fact, was vastly different even from our everyday ritualistic Hindu religion — with its numerous gods and goddesses, its casteist exclusions, and its petty ...

Sri Ramakrishna, Srima Sarada and Swami Vivekananda make a lovely trio. All three – the Hindu Right, the Left and the public at large – are depriving themselves.

Portraits of Swami Vivekananda, from left, his guru Ramakrishna, and Sarada Devi are displayed at the Vedanta Society of New York, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Manhattan. (RNS photo/Richa Karmarkar) ...

This nuanced and detailed account of the life and times of Narendranath Datta (1863-1902), better known as Swami Vivekananda, by a professor of European history at the University of Oxford has come at ...