When Vivekananda met Tesla

The great Indian Hindu spiritual philosopher and the rebel genius of science met in 1896. Here’s what happened.

Four versions of what a meeting between Tesla and Vivekananda may have looked like as imagined with the help of Midjourney.

Swami Vivekananda and Nikola Tesla are two remarkable figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who had an encounter that had a lasting impact on both of them. Vivekananda was a Hindu monk and philosopher from India, while Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor and physicist. Their meeting took place…