149) Swami Vivekananda attended the World′s Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in

150) Vivekananda felt that the Parliament would provide the right forum to present his Master′s message to the world, and so he decided to go to America. Another reason which prompted Swamiji to go to America was to seek financial help for his project of uplifting the masses.swamiji, however, wanted to have an inner certitude and divine call regarding his mission. Both of these he got while he sat in deep meditation on the rock-island at

151) Whose speeches at the World′s Parliament of Religions held in September 1893 made him famous as an ′orator by divine right′ and as a ′Messenger of Indian wisdom to the Western world′.

152) When Ramakrishna Mission founded?

153) In early 1898 Swami Vivekananda acquired a big plot of land on the western bank of the Ganga at a place called Belur to have a permanent abode for the monastery and monastic Order originally started at Baranagar, and got it registered as Ramakrishna Math after a couple of years.