"May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea."
- Swami VivekanandaFrom 1863 until 1902, Swami Vivekananda was a well-known Hindu philosopher and monk. Most notably, he played a significant part in bringing the Indian philosophies of yoga and vedanta to the West in the late 1800s. His 1893 speech at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago, which made him…