-K.Suryanarayana
Rao
.
Shri
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, the Divinity
personified, the mentor and spiritual master of Swami Vivekananda, had
prophesied, whenVivekananda was just a youthful Narendranath that, “Naren would shake the world to
its foundations through his intellectual and spiritual powers. There is much
more work to be done by him”.
It is an undisputed fact that, in
modern times, it was Swami Vivekananda who first held aloft the banner of
Hinduism as a challenge against the materialism of the West. With his profound
thoughts and electrifying words he moved total strangers of high intellectual
calibre, occupying equally high positions.
Dr. John Henry
Wright, a professor of Greek classics at the famous Harvard University, U.S.A.,
whose learning was said to be encyclopedic, after his talks with the Swami for
some time, had, in his letter of introduction of the Swami, to the office
bearers of the World Parliament of Religious, held at Chicago, stated “Here is a man who is more
learned than all the learned professors of America put-to-gether.”
Vivekananda’s
first speech at the Parliament, was only for a few minutes. There was a
standing ovation and applaud. The American papers wrote “He is undoubtedly the greatest
figure in the Parliament of Religions.” “It is foolish to send our
missionaries to that learned county.” “Our professors are pigmies before him” etc.
etc.
This way the Swami established the
truth of his master’s prophecy.
