America's First Guru

Compelling story of how Yoga, Vedanta, the deeper aspects of Hinduism, and Interfaith understanding first entered the popular American conversation in 1893 with the arrival of charismatic yet almost forgotten Indian monk Swami Vivekananda at the first World's Parliament in Chicago.

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