Swami Vivekananda in India (contd-2)

During the Parliament, Swami Vivekananda became a national figure, After the Parliament , he toured America and England, teaching extensively and attracting numerous followers. He told American audiences , "I have a message for the West as Budha had a message for the east."  He took the ancient teachings of Vedanta, the philosophy of the Vedas and Upanishads and made them Yoga in the West, Karma Yoga was published in America, in 1896, and Raja Yoga was published in later in England. Both are Yoga classics. In 1896, he was offered the Chair of Eastern Philosophy at Harvard University but declined. 
when h returned to India in 1897, he was greeted with a hero's welcomeThousands thronged to see him wherever he went. Madras held a nine day public festival in his honour. When he returned to Calcutta, 20,000 people met him at the station. When he spoke to the  crowds, he inspired them to renew India's past glory and urged them to help tose in need. 
In Madras he said, " Do you feel that miillions are starving today, and millions had been starving for ages ? Do you feel that ignorance has come over the land like a dark cloud ? Does it make you 
restless ? Does it make you sleepless ? Has it gone into your blood, coursing through your veins, becoming consonant with your heart beats ? Hasit made you almost mad ? Are you seized with that one idea of the misery of ruin, and have you forgotten all about your name, your fame, your wives, your children, your property, even your own bodies ? Have you done that ? That is the first step to become a patriot, the very first step."
He soon established the Ramakrishna Math, a monastic order named after his teacher, Sri Ramakrishna, and the Ramakrishna Mission - a social services organisation  in India,. It runs hospitals, schools, and orphanages, and it provides help in times of natural disaster. The Ramakrishna Math  and Ramakrishna Mission now have over 135 centers world wide, with mor than a dozen in United States.
Years of ascetic practices non-stop work has undermined his health, and he went to Darjeeling to rest.  However, in 1898, there was an outbreak of Plague in Calcutta, and he returned to the heart of the plague districts, where he organised efforts to clean out the sewers in the slums where the contagion had organised. Within days the plague subsided.