VIVEKANANDA, AN APPRAISAL AFRESH
Swamiji denounced Islam's intolerant ideology no less than he denounced that of Christianity. His love for humanity endeared him, nonetheless, to the masses of Muslims and Christians worldwide.
Swamiji knew how to separate principle from personality, inhibiting circumstantial exigency from the compulsion of expression of the eternal truth through the mist of time and space and of evolutionary hurdles. His deep sympathies prevented him from hating any, even the Devil as he was wont to saying in altered expression towards the end of his earthly sojourn. His transcendental realisations and deep insight into the divinity of human nature endowed him with a rare universal love in real terms and not the so-called linguistic terms we are so well acquainted with. Thus did he emerge the Prophet of the modern world commissioned by God Himself to discharge unto humanity the Gospel of the times.
Vivekananda may have been the Prophet of humanity but it must never be forgotten that he was one man who never compromised on truth to uphold his world mission. He laid bare the hypocrisies of proselytising Christianity and its mischievous missionaries even as he laid bare his heart's adoration for the gentle Jew of Galilee. In a like manner he denounced the very religion of Islam as a violent, fanatical movement in history which, despite doing some good in terms of democratising the principles of applied religion, in real terms deluged the world in blood in its bid to impose its doctrine on one and all. Swamiji held Islamic scriptural doctrines as the motive-force for such savagery and spared no words to condemn such violence and the intolerant ideology fuelling it.
Vivekananda was persecuted by Christian missionaries in America and even attempted to be poisoned to death. It was his divine Master Ramakrishna who saved his life at the critical moment by appearing before him and preventing him from drinking the poisoned coffee. Yet, Vivekananda harboured no ill-feeling against American Christians, although, he never spared the bigoted Christian ministers for their proselytising villainy among the heathen nations.
Swamiji denounced Islam's intolerant ideology no less than he denounced that of Christianity. His love for humanity endeared him, nonetheless, to the masses of Muslims and Christians worldwide.
Swamiji knew how to separate principle from personality, inhibiting circumstantial exigency from the compulsion of expression of the eternal truth through the mist of time and space and of evolutionary hurdles. His deep sympathies prevented him from hating any, even the Devil as he was wont to saying in altered expression towards the end of his earthly sojourn. His transcendental realisations and deep insight into the divinity of human nature endowed him with a rare universal love in real terms and not the so-called linguistic terms we are so well acquainted with. Thus did he emerge the Prophet of the modern world commissioned by God Himself to discharge unto humanity the Gospel of the times.
Vivekananda may have been the Prophet of humanity but it must never be forgotten that he was one man who never compromised on truth to uphold his world mission. He laid bare the hypocrisies of proselytising Christianity and its mischievous missionaries even as he laid bare his heart's adoration for the gentle Jew of Galilee. In a like manner he denounced the very religion of Islam as a violent, fanatical movement in history which, despite doing some good in terms of democratising the principles of applied religion, in real terms deluged the world in blood in its bid to impose its doctrine on one and all. Swamiji held Islamic scriptural doctrines as the motive-force for such savagery and spared no words to condemn such violence and the intolerant ideology fuelling it.
Vivekananda was persecuted by Christian missionaries in America and even attempted to be poisoned to death. It was his divine Master Ramakrishna who saved his life at the critical moment by appearing before him and preventing him from drinking the poisoned coffee. Yet, Vivekananda harboured no ill-feeling against American Christians, although, he never spared the bigoted Christian ministers for their proselytising villainy among the heathen nations.
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Written by Sugata Bose
Written by Sugata Bose
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