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Preface (LSV 1.001)
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The Datta family of Simla (or Simulia), a northern district in Calcutta, was rich and powerful, renowned for many generations for its charity, learning and strong independent spirit. (LSV 1.001)
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Rammohan Datta, the great grand father of Vivekananda lived happily in a mansion. (LSV 1.002)
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The description of the house of Ramamohan Datta (LSV 1.002)
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Rammohan Datta left two sons, Durgaprasad and Kaliprasad. (LSV 1.002)
1835
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Durgaprasad was a gifted youth but he renounced the world. (LSV 1.002)
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In the meantime his son, Vishwanath, who had been left as an infant with his mother, required bringing up. The mother, Shyamasundari, was fearless, devout and worthy in every way of accepting the great responsibility that had fallen upon her. (LSV 1.002)
1838
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At the age of 3 years , Vishwanath was taken on pilgrimage to Varanasi. (LSV 1.002)
1838
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one morning, while on deck, Vishwanath fell in Ganga. His mother saved him. (LSV 1.003)
1838
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At last Varanasi was reached. Delighted with the holy atmosphere of the place, Shyamasundari visited all the temples, including that of Vireshwar Shiva. (LSV 1.003)
1838
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Shyamasundari slipped on her way to temple, assisted by a passing monk- was her husband! (LSV 1.003)
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Durgaprasad came to calcutta, relatives locked in house , ultimately escaped (LSV 1.003)
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When Vishwanath had come of age and was earning his own livelihood, he once went to Varanasi in search of his father, but could not trace him. (LSV 1.004)
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Swamiji's pronounced tendency towards monastic life was "in his blood" (LSV 1.004)
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Vishwanath's uncle Kaliprasad was head of family. Having no inome family bacame poorer and poorer. (LSV 1.004)
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Vishwanath lost his mother at the age of ten and was brought up as orphan. (LSV 1.004)
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Vishwanath grew to manhood, knew many lenguages and also music (LSV 1.004)
1841
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Birth of Bhuvaneshwari Devi (LSV 1.008)
1851
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Vishwanath Datta married at age of sixteen to Bhuvaneshwari Devi who was only ten years old. (LSV 1.008)
1851
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It was, then, to these two, Vishwanath and Bhuvaneshwari Devi, that the boy who was to become the greatest man of his age, whose influence was to shake the world, and who was to lay the foundation of a new order of things, was born. (LSV 1.009)
1866
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After passing final examination, Vishwanath did couple of things here and there, ultimately got enrolled as attorney -at-law in calcutta High Court (LSV 1.005)
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As an attorney Vishvanath made a considerable reputation (LSV 1.005)
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Vishwanath earned money through his professional work but also spent money liberally (LSV 1.005)
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Vishwanath was a connoisseur of good cooking and was himself expert in the art, preparing various kinds of dishes for his friends and relatives. (LSV 1.005)
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Vishwanath was of the opinion that growing children needed to be well fed; otherwise their brains would not develop properly; thus he spared no expense in providing good and nourishing food for his children. (LSV 1.005)
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Vishwanath learned from his own life that no wealth to be left for children as it may make them do-nothing members and spend inherited wealth. (LSV 1.005)
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Vishwanath Datta was independent in spirit, generous in disposition, devoted to his friends, a protector of the needy. (LSV 1.006)
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Vishwanath Datta never thought of morrow even entered into maintaining idle and drunken relatives (LSV 1.006)
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Vishwanath was a liberal Hindu with a receptive mind, studied Bible and Diwan-i- Hafiz (LSV 1.007)
1882
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Vishwanath datta was progressive in his views. He wrote two books in Bengali and hindi (LSV 1.007)
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The first was his Bengali novel Sulochana, published in 1880, in the name of his uncle, Gopalchandra Datta. (LSV 1.007)
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Vishwanath was broad minded and not orthodox (LSV 1.007)
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Vishwanath Datta's conduct was marked by Hindu-Islamic and European culture but did not make any change in the traditional ways of the family, with regard to the practice of religion. (LSV 1.007)
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