Vivekananda

The monk who addressed the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, opened with "Sisters and brothers of America" and was applauded for two minutes before he could continue — and who then spent the rest of a short life presenting Vedānta to the West as a universal philosophy rather than an ethnic curiosity.

The modern export, and the reason so much twentieth-century Western spirituality speaks a lightly Vedāntic dialect without knowing it. Kept downstream of the sources, the way ⁂ keeps the Kybalion and ⊞ keeps its popularisers.