Swami Vivekananda humanified and humanised

Following is a list of unverifiable claims of incidents in the life of Swami Vivekananda. These claims are made by his biographers without sufficient tangible evidence. For accepting these claims, Indian Council of Historic Research, New Delhi or any other Government body connected with history have to collect the evidence and verify them. The biographers cannot be depended upon because most of them are disciples/devotees of Vivekananda. Normally devotees and admirers have a tendency to concentrate on only incidents which deify their hero. 1. Vivekananda swimming the Sea between the shore and the Vivekananda Rock at Kanyakumari . There is no mention of his swimming the Sea and sitting on the Vivekananda rock in his Complete Works. He has not written to anybody. Considering that the sea is shark-filled and the distance involved, we have to presume that he used a boat, may be of fishermen or the ruler of Travancore/Ramnad. It is not reasonable to say that he did not have mone

When we study the letters of Swami Vivekananda very carefully, we cannot resist from getting an impression that he did not treat his brother-disciples as his equals. The common impression is that Swami Vivekananda started the Vedanta Society of New York. He himself denied it. Swamiji wrote to Ms. Josephine MacLeod from Alameda, California on April 20, 1900: "...You and Mrs. Leggett wanted me to write him to be free and independent and that Mr. Leggett was not going to help them. I wrote it — now what can I do? If John or Jack does not obey you, am I to be hanged for it? What do I know about this Vedanta Society? Did I start it? Had I any hand in it? Then again, nobody condescends to write me anything about what the affair is! Well, this world is a great fun. ..." BLOGGER'S VIEW The word 'him' above refers to Swami Abhedananda. Who is the John or Jack? It is Abhedananda. Who started the Vedanta Society of New York? To continue, with more evidence and