Question

Swami Vivekand my inspiration...

Write something on him...

Answer 1

“Our greatest national sin is the disregard of the masses.”- Vivekananda

There is no doubt that the message of Vivekananda spread all over the country and the events that he had predicted not only started happening but assumed the form of a strong movement in the face of which the British Government had to bend and the partition of Bengal was annulled. This was the first struggle, after the war of independence in 1857, that became successful which brought glory to the whole nation. Of course, there was a danger inherent in the message of Vivekananda of its developing in the form of narrow nationalism — Vivekananda had woken up a sleeping lion, as it were, and created a feeling of self-confidence in the nation about its being still alive, in spite of continuous foreign invasions, while those of Greece, Rome and Egypt had been wiped out. It was because there was a perennial current of culture which formed the nation's backbone and kept it strong and alive. No foreign nation could destroy it and enslave it for eternity. It was Vivekananda’s message which had inspired the poet Iqbal to write the following lines :

‘ Saare jahan se accha Hindostan hamara

hum bulbulain hai is ki, yeh gulsitan hamara

Yunan-Missr-Roma, sab mit gaye jahan se

Ab tuk magar hai baaki, nam-o-n Our Hindustan is the best of all in the world. We are the birds for whom it is a garden(our nest), Greece, Egypt, Rome have all been wiped out but our identity still survives. )

In the context of spiritual advaitism versus material advaitism, while speaking on the Hindu religion in the Parliament of Religions, Vivekananda said :

“Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.”

And, that thought is the equation of any nation.