It was in the fitness of things that in Swami Vivekananda a divine messenger was given to India in modern times. The Swami loved his country from his boyhood, and it was a love such as only a heart like his, quite an ocean in its depth and sweep, was capable of. Such patriotism can never be the out-come of any training; it is inborn. Such perfect identification of self with the country can be accounted for only when we understand how in the birth of a Vivekananda, the very soul of his country finds itself bodied forth. In the episode of such a life, the achievement, the promise, the hope and the mission of a Vivekananda may well be said to have carried and embodied within himself from his birth the collective Indian consciousness. So it was really through Narendra, when sitting at his feet that his Master got hold of the whole of India and through India the whole of mankind.
“If you want to know India, read Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative” - Rabindranath Tagore