Swami Vivekananda Biography, Life History, Information, Teachings, Death "Dare to be free, Dare to go as far as your thoughts lead, and dare to carry that out in your life" Narendranath Datta better known as Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1963- 4 July 1902) was an Indian Hindu monk, creative thinker, social reformer, great speaker, and fervent patriotic who founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He firmly practised, preached, and advised others for the pure and true spiritual path. His birthday is celebrated as National Youth Day in India. Here are few anecdotes from his life- Swami Vivekananda Life History Once when Swami Vivekananda was in Varanasi, he was surrounded by a large number of mischievous monkeys while he was coming out of the temple of Maa Durga. They seem to be exasperating him. Swamiji did not want to catch them so he started running but the wicked monkeys followed him an old monk was watching them he asked Swamiji to 's