 Swami Vivekananda, born Narendra and Adyakta, Narend, as he was called for short, was born in the northern district of Calcutta on January 12th, 1863. Whenever religion decays and irreligion prevails, then I manifest myself. For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the evil, for the firm establishment of the truth, I am born again and again. This Vivekananda, the world now realises, was a lonely man travelling in the mysterious universe in search of one single and simple thing, truth, the truth about man, the truth about man's relation to God. It was to establish this truth to the heart of the millions that Swamiji and his brotherhood later developed the Ramakrishna Mission ashram at Belur.