Vivekananda's Chicago Speech Turns 125

You must have heard about that famous speech he delivered at the Parliament of the World's Religions on September 11, 1893. Here's the text/video version which has been stripped of the standing ovation you can hear a bit better in this one. 'The cyclonic mock' was a disciple of Ramakrishna – a friend had explained this to me several years ago but I didn't pay that much attention – and considered the rockstar in that Chicago meeting.

I came across Vivekananda in some recent readings. More on this later.