A disciple of Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda was the chief spokesman for Vendanta, which had societies popping up throughout America and Europe through the 1930s. Born in 1863, Vivekananda's best-known work was "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda," which was a collection of his lectures, letters and poems. During his lifetime he was an in-demand speaker throughout Europe and the United States and represented Hinduism at the first World Parliament of Religions that was held in Chicago in 1893. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Order in India in 1898, shortly after his first tour …