125 years after his visit, Californians honor Swami Vivekananda's influence

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125 years after his visit, Californians honor Swami Vivekananda's influence

(RNS) — The first that the vast majority of turn-of-the-20th-century Americans heard of Swami Vivekananda was the speech the 30-year-old Hindu delegate gave at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1893 in Chicago. Vivekananda captivated his audience, addressing them as his “sisters and brothers,” and spoke about Hinduism’s teachings of the “oneness of existence” — heralding a spiritual revolution in the West. It wouldn’t be the last Americ…