Wandering Monk - Swami Vivekananda

A remarkable change over outlook came over Narandranath between the closing of 1888, when he first left on his temporary excursions and 1890, when he parted from his brethren and travelled alone as an unknown mendicant. He began to assume various names in order to conceal his identity that he might be swallowed up in the immensity of India.
During his interaction with his disciples or publicly Swamiji had found rarely to say anything about his experiences of his spiritual attainments. One day, during exchanges of opinion, he said; Do you know, how one can understand perception of God by a person? The Jesus of Nazareth became   Jesus Christ after the perception of God, Sakya Singha became Gautam Budha, Nimai Pandit of Nadia became Sreekrishna Chaityanna.
Narendranath knew that he was not an ordinary recluse struggling for his personal salvation  He was destined to fulfill the task bestowed upon him by his Master. Under the influence of his burning desire to know India better and the mute appeal rising all around him from oppressed India, he first went to Varanasi, the holiest city of the Hindus.  There he met Pramadadas Mitra, a great Sanskrit scholar, with whom he had been in correspondence regarding various problems of Hindu religion and philosophy.
After Varanasi he visited Lucknow, Agra, Vrindaban, hathras, and Rishikesh and the returned to Baranagore  for a time. At hathras he met Sharat Chandra Gupta who became his first disciple (Swami Sadananda). he revealed to him the mission entrusted to him by his Master, namely, the spiritual regeneration of India and the world. Sharat who was on the staff of the railway station at Hathras, resigned his post, and  followed his Guru to help him in his mission..