Ideology & Contribution
- Supported Varna System for its advantages – a division of labor and excellence in the profession but opposed Untouchability
- His nationalism is associated with spiritualism - linked India’s regeneration to her age-old tradition of spiritual goal.
- His nationalism is based on Humanism and Universalism
- He taught people to get rid first of self-inflicted bondages and resultant miseries
- Unlike western nationalism which is secular in nature, Swami Vivekananda’s nationalism is based on religion which is lifeblood of the Indian people.
- He established motherland as the only deity to be worshiped in the mind and heart of countrymen.
- Social Service - Jiva is Shiva (each individual is divinity itself)
- Education - "If the poor cannot come to education, education must reach them at the plough, in the factory, everywhere…so they would have ideas and morality, and hope for better."
- Sports - You will be nearer to heaven through Football than through the study of the Bhagvad Gita
- founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission.
- the speech which began with the words - "Sisters and brothers of America ...," in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893
- Author - Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga
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