This is about the extraordinary fellowship that created between Maharaja Ajit Singh Bahadur, the leader of the Shekhawat line of the august territory of Khetri in Rajputana and Narendra Dutta, a priest who passed by the name of Swami Bibidishanand. Narendra, a bhakt of Sri Ramakrishna, had set out from Belur, as a meandering priest in 1888. His movements were much the same as different priests,

"without a fixed homestead, without ties, autonomous and like outsiders any place they go".

His sole belongings were a "kamandalu" (a water pot), a staff and his two most loved books, the Bhagavad Gita and The Imitation of Christ. Ajit Singh Bahadur turned into his pupil and it was at his recommendation that Narendra consented to change his name to Swami Vivekananda and to wear the saffron robe and turban, which turned into his brand name clothing.

Maharaja Ajit Singh Bahadur

Be that as it may, where is Khetri you may inquire?

The past august territory of Khetri lies around 170 km southwest of Delhi and 150 km upper east of Jaipur and is important for Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu locale known for its copper mines. Very few would have known about it and however beautiful with a stronghold, whose dividers snake across slopes, it is not normal for different conditions of Rajasthan that are loaded with legends of Rajput boldness. Its set of experiences is part tale and part old stories — made additionally energizing for the world with the revelation of a lot of letters written in English by in all honesty Swami Vivekananda.

Khetri's Maharaja Ajit Singh Bahadur, the eighth ruler of the province of Khetri, succeeded Raja Fateh Singh in 1870. Conceived on October 16, 1861, his dad was Chattu Singh, a Thakur of Alsisar. In his adolescence, he was embraced by Fateh Singh, who had no child. At the time Ajit Singh met Narendra, he had been on the seat for a very long time.

Abnormally, Narendra is said to have met Ajit Singh just threefold in the course of his life — in 1891, 1893 and 1897 — but built up a nearby bond with him. During his period as a meandering priest, it was at Mount Abu that he initially met Ajit Singh at his late spring escape, Khetri House. Narendra and Ajit made what is said to have been his longest remain with Ajit Singh, who convinced him to remain on during the blistering climate. Narendra's stay was nearly for quite a long time, from June 4 to October 27, 1891, bringing about a lifetime of fellowship. It was during this visit that Ajit Singh proposed that he should wear a turban as a security from the hot breezes of Rajasthan and told him the best way to tie the turban in the Rajasthani style. Narendra was a brisk student and received the turban as his lasting headgear.

Swami Vivekananda

Having become a dear companion and a firm supporter, Ajit Singh was likewise the individual to whom Narendra turned for help at whatever point the need emerged. Letters composed by Swami Vivekanand notice his arrangements and troubles, unmistakably indicating his reliance and confidence in his companion. In a letter to Ajit Singh dated November 22, 1898, Vivekananda composes,

"I have not minimal disgrace in opening my brain to you and that I think about you as my lone companion in this life".

Ajit Singh convinced and gave money related assistance with the goal that his companion Narendra could join in and take an interest in the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893. Narendra left Bombay for Chicago on May 31, 1893, with another name recommended by his companion. Hereafter, he would be known as "Vivekananda"!

It was to be sure an ideal name for Narendra — Vivekananda signified "the joy of perceiving intelligence" — in Sanskrit it is a mix of viveka (shrewdness) and ananda (delight).

Knowing his companion's budgetary circumstance, from 1891 Ajit Singh started to send a month to month payment of '100 to Vivekananda's family in Kolkata. On December 1, 1898, Vivekananda composed a letter to Ajit Singh from Belur in which he mentioned him to make this gift lasting so that even after Vivekananda's demise, his mom (Bhuvaneswari Devi, 1841—1911) would get monetary help consistently. The letter chronicle of Khetri uncovers that he discussed often with the relatives in Vivekananda's nonappearance. The province of Khetri and its neighborly ruler were exceptionally regarded in Rajputana. In spite of its little territory, it had a breathtaking post, intriguing engineering structures and was viewed as one of the most developed and reformist conditions of Rajasthan at that point. In 1897, Ajit Singh went to England in the wake of accepting a challenge to go to Queen Victoria's jewel celebration.

In 1999, the area organization of Jhunjhunu found a lot of 106-year-old letters composed by Swami Vivekananda to the then leader of Khetri. These uncommon letters were found simply by chance in the record room of its sub-divisional official. The town patwari, whose work it is to keep up land records, carried these old letters to Ram Niwas Mehta, the sub-divisional official who experienced them fastidiously and was amazed and thrilled to realize that they were composed by as a matter of fact Swami Vivekananda. These were letters composed between the long stretches of February and December in the year 1893. All the letters wrote by Swami Vivekananda were transcribed in English. A portion of these can be seen at the Khetri Museum, while some others have become the valued assets of the Ramakrishna Mission at Belur in West Bengal.

Master Vivekananda had likewise established a Ramakrishna Mission at Khetri. The Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission established by Swami Vivekananda keep on following his words that have throughout the long term, spread over the world. Explorers from everywhere the world make it a highlight visit Belur Math, the background of this Indian thinker, who stays a key figure in the acquaintance of Vedanta and Yoga with the Western world.