Understanding Vivekananda (An Old and Rare Book: Only 1 Book Available)

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This work is an attempt at analysing the basic thoughts of Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) whose inspiring messages and tireless activities shook the foundation of the Hindu society in the last decade of the nineteenth century. An uncompromising Advaitist, Vivekananda has always been a champion of freedom in the truest sense of the term. It is the longing for freedom, which produces, in our mind, the idea of a Being who is absolutely free. A passionate nationalist, Vivekakanda gave a new life to the national movement of India by calling attention of his countrymen to its spiritual basis. The keynote of his philo- sophy was spiritual unity of the universe. Education, humanism, social regeneration, emancipation of women and nationalist upsurge-all stem from this one basic truth, viz., spiritual unty of the universe. Spirituality is not, however, anything occult or magical but is a matter of direct realization. In the sphere of religion Vivekananda's contribution has been of lasting value. According to him, all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the Infinite, each determined by the condi- tions of its birth and association, and each of them marking a stage of progress.