Subhas Chandra Bose:Vivekananda

It was during this period (school days) that Subhash Chandra Bose was drawn towards the works of Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) as he accepted: "I was barely fifteen when Vivekananda entered my life, then there followed a revolution within and everything was turn upside down."

Then he joined the Premiere College of the Calcutta University for his B.A. Honours in Philosophy. As taking Philosophy as his major subject, he was deeply influenced by Swami Vivekananda and by Aurobindo Ghose, the most popular leader of Bengal despite his voluntary exile and absence from politics since 1909, during his undergraduate days.

Subhash Bose's return to Calcutta to join the freedom movement also meant a return to home and family. He had disclaimed any interest in marrying and having his own family. Here again he followed his spiritual mentor-Swami Vivekananda.