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Assignment No: 33

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S

S WAMI VIVEKANANDA’S inspiring personality was well known both in India and in
America during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the
twentieth. The unknown monk of India suddenly leapt into fame at the Parliament of
Religions held in Chicago in 1983, at which he represented Hinduism. His vast knowledge of
Eastern and Western culture as well as his deep spiritual insight, fervid eloquence, brilliant
conversation, broad human sympathy, colourful personality, and handsome figure made an
irresistible appeal to the many types of Americans who came in contact with him. People who
saw or heard Vivekananda even once still cherish his memory after a lapse of more than half
a century.

In America Vivekananda’s mission between India and the New World in order
was the interpretation of India’s spiritual to create a healthy synthesis of East and
culture, especially in its Vedantic setting. West, of religion and science.
He also tried to enrich the religious
In his own motherland Vivekananda
consciousness of the Americans through
is regarded as the patriot saint of modern
the rational and humanistic teachings of
India and an inspirer of her dormant
the Vedanta philosophy. The America he
national consciousness, To the Hindus he
became India’s spiritual ambassador and
pleaded eloquently for better
understanding
 Arise, awake and do not stop until  We are what our thoughts have
the goal is reached made us; so take care about what
 You have to grow from inside out. you think. Words are secondary.
None can teach you, none can Thoughts live; they travel far.
make you spiritual. There is no  You cannot believe in God until
other teacher but your own soul. you believe yourself.

Preached the ideal of a strength-giving and Service to man ass the visible
man-making religion. manifestation of the Godhead was the
special form of work ship he advocated for
the Indian’s devoted as they were to the
rituals and myths of their ancient faith.
Many political leaders of India have
publicly acknowleged their indebtedness to
Swami Vivekananda.

The natural tendency of Vivekananda’s mind, like that his Master, Ramakrishna, was to soar
above the world and forget itself in contemplation of the Absolute. But another part of his
personality bled at the sight of human suffering in East and West alike. It might appear that
his mind seldom found a point of rest in its oscillation between contemplation of God and
service to man. Be that as it may, he chose, in obedience to a higher call, service to man as
his mission on earth; and this choice has endeared him to people in the West, Americans in
particular.

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