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Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) carried Vedanta to the West at the 1893 Parliament of Religions in Chicago and spent the rest of his short life preaching what he called ‘practical Vedanta’ — strength, self-belief, and service as worship. His talks and letters fill the nine volumes of the Complete Works.
This saying circulates in the popular collections of his words; we are progressively tracing each quote on this site to its exact lecture or letter, and flag any that cannot be verified.
