Question

Essay on religious harmony and social progress are esential to india's growth and development by swami vivekanand's speech

Answer 1

It is being and becoming, not hearing or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming changed into what it believes. He also felt religion is the gist of all worship is to be pure and to do good to othersSocial service was an essential aspect of Vivekananda's ideas, and an innovation which deviated from both Advaita Vedanta and Ramakrishna. He nevertheless attributed these ideas to both, trying to reconcile them with his own ideas.

According to Vivekananda, an important teaching he received from Ramakrishna was that Jiva is Shiva (each individual is divinity itself). So he stressed on Shiva Jnane Jiva Seva, (to serve common people considering them as manifestation of God). According to Vivekananda, man is potentially Divine, so, service to man is indeed service to God.