Ngokwesigatshana, nikeza uhlu lwezihloko uNarendranath ayefunda kakhulu ngazo.
Context:Ngo-1871, eneminyaka eyisishiyagalombili ubudala, uNarendranath wabhalisa e-Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's Metropolitan Institution, lapho aya khona esikoleni kwaze kwaba yilapho umndeni wakhe uthuthela eRaipur ngo-1877. Ngo-1879, ngemuva kokubuyela komndeni wakhe eKalcutta, waba ukuphela komfundi owathola amamaki okuqala esigabeni sokuqala esivivinyweni sokungena e-Presidency College. Wayengumfundi okhuthele ezifundweni eziningi, ezihlanganisa ifilosofi, inkolo, umlando, isayensi yezenhlalo, ubuciko nezincwadi. Wayenesithakazelo nasemibhalweni yamaHindu, kuhlanganise namaVeda, ama-Upanishads, iBhagavad Gita, iRamayana, iMahabharata namaPuranas. UNarendra waqeqeshwa emculweni waseNdiya, futhi wayehlanganyela njalo ekuzivocavoca umzimba, ezemidlalo kanye nemisebenzi ehleliwe. UNarendra wafunda i-logic yaseNtshonalanga, ifilosofi yaseNtshonalanga nomlando waseYurophu e-General Assembly's Institution (manje eyaziwa ngokuthi iScottish Church College). Ngo-1881, waphumelela ukuhlolwa kwezobuciko obuhle, futhi waphothula iziqu zeBachelor of Arts ngo-1884. UNarendra wafunda imisebenzi kaDavid Hume, u-Immanuel Kant, uJohann Gottlieb Fichte, uBaruch Spinoza, uGeorg W. F. Hegel, u-Arthur Schopenhauer, u-Auguste Comte, uJohn Stuart Mill noCharles Darwin. Waba nesithakazelo ekuziphendukeleni kwemvelo kukaHerbert Spencer futhi wabhalelana naye, ehumushela incwadi kaHerbert Spencer ethi Education (1861) olimini lwesiBengali. Ngesikhathi efunda izazi zefilosofi zaseNtshonalanga, wafunda nemibhalo yesiSanskrit nezincwadi zesiBengali.
ifilosofi, inkolo, umlando, isayensi yezenhlalo, ubuciko nezincwadi