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When Science Met Spirit:
Swami Vivekananda and Nikola Tesla
Dec 21, 2025
id you know that these two Eastern and Western stalwarts in science and spiritualism crossed paths on the same timeline on this planet Earth?
And that they are still the torchbearers in both the worlds, even as we are in the middle of this 21st Century AI- age?
Between 1893 and 1896, New York had quietly hosted one of the most intriguing intellectual encounters of the modern age.
Swami Vivekananda (Born 12 January 1863 & died 4 July 1902), the Indian Hindu monk who electrified the West with Vedantic philosophy, met Nikola Tesla , who was 7 YEARS OLDER TO HIM, (Born 10 July 1856 & died 7 January 1943), the visionary inventor redefining electricity and energy.
Their introduction was facilitated by famed French actress, Sarah Bernhardt, but the conversation quickly moved beyond polite exchanges into profound territory.
Vivekananda introduced Tesla to ancient Vedic concepts—prana, the universal life force, and akasha, the primordial ether from which matter arises.
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To Tesla, these ideas felt startlingly familiar. He had long believed the universe functioned as a vast vibrational system, governed by energy and frequency. Vivekananda’s explanations offered philosophical language for what Tesla was already intuiting scientifically.
Deeply fascinated, Tesla began incorporating Sanskrit terms such as prana and akasha into his own writings. In his essay “Man’s Greatest Achievement,” he used these concepts to articulate a connection between energy and matter, echoing principles that modern physics would only formalize decades later.
Tesla even expressed confidence that he could one day mathematically prove Vedantic cosmology, though that final proof eluded him.
Their meeting stands as a rare and powerful convergence of Eastern spirituality and Western science. It wasn’t mysticism versus mathematics; it was dialogue. Vivekananda offered a cosmic framework, Tesla sought its equations. Together, they hinted at a unified understanding of the universe. One that modern science is still chasing.
Vivekananda introduced Tesla to ancient Vedic concepts: prana, the universal life force, and akasha, the primordial ether from which matter arises.
To Tesla, these ideas felt startlingly familiar. He had long believed the universe functioned as a vast vibrational system, governed by energy and frequency.
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