The story of Vivekananda’s conversion has not as yet been told. I do not know if anybody knows how this miracle happened. Vivekananda had been a rationalist and a deist, though he fancied that he was a theist. His early religious associations were with the Bràhmo Samàj. They were not verycongenial to the development of faith in saints and seers. Ramakrishna Paramahansa attracted however many members of the Bràhmo Samàj by his great psychic powers and more particularly by his passionate love of God. But they never were able to open the secret springs of the life and realizations of the The Paramahansa never really opened to most of them the secret chambers of his piety. Vivekananda was favoured by the Paramahansa in this matter. Paramahansa Ramakrishna saw into the innermost composition of Vivekananda’s nature and spirit and recognized in him a fit instrument for delivering the message of his own life. This is the real story of Vivekananda’s conversion. It is the story of the conversion also of Soul, though it was set in a different psychological setting. Vivekananda felt drawn to his Master by what he hardly knew. It was the operation of what is now called soul-force. When one soul touches another on this deep spiritual plane, the two are united for ever by unbreakable spiritual bonds. The two henceforth become practically one; the Master working in and through the disciple, the disciple not even knowing that he is dancing to the tune of the Master. People call it inspiration. Vivekananda worked after his conversion undernthe inspiration of his Master.
