Vivekananda was born in Calcutta by an aristocratic Bengali Kayastha family. He was always interested in religion and spirituality. He eventually found Ramakrishna, his guru, and became a monk. Vivekananda traveled extensively throughout the Indian subcontinent following Ramakrishna's death, gaining firsthand knowledge of Indians' living conditions in British India at the time. He decided to help his people because he was moved by their predicament, and he found a way to travel to the United States, where he had great success. Vivekananda established the Ramakrishna Math in India, which trains monastics and householder devotees in spirituality, and the Ramakrishna Mission, which focuses on charity, social work, and education. During the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, the inspirational personality of SWAMI VIVEKANANDA was well-known in both India and the United States. At the Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, where he represented Hinduism, the unassuming Indian monk exploded into fame. The many different kinds of Americans who came into contact with him found him irresistible due to his profound spiritual insight, fiery eloquence, brilliant conversation, broad human sympathy, colorful personality, and handsome figure. After more than half a century, people who even once saw or heard Vivekananda still cherish his memory. In America Vivekananda's main goal was the understanding of India's profound culture, particularly in its Vedantic setting. Also, he tried to make Vedanta's rational and humanistic teachings more appealing to Americans' religious sensibilities. He became India's spiritual ambassador in the United States and argued eloquently for a greater level of understanding between India and the New World in order to foster a healthy synthesis of religion and science from both the East and West. In his own country Vivekananda is viewed as the loyalist holy person of present-day India and an inspirer of her torpid public awareness. To the Hindus he taught the ideal of a strength-giving and man-production religion. The unique form of worship he advocated for the Indians, who were devoted to the myths and rituals of their ancient faith, was service to man as the visible manifestation of the Godhead. In public, numerous Indian political leaders have acknowledged their debt to Swami Vivekananda. The Swami had an international and national mission. An admirer of humanity, he endeavored to advance harmony and human fraternity on the otherworldly underpinning of the Vedantic Unity of presence. Vivekananda, a mystic of the highest order, experienced Reality directly and intuitively. He got his thoughts from that unfailing wellspring of astuteness and frequently introduced them in the spirit blending language of verse. Like his Master Ramakrishna, Vivekananda's mind had the natural tendency to soar above the world and forget itself while contemplating the Absolute.