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vivekananda gave american ideals vedantic roots. in regard to the cultural impact of his teaching. it is bomb-link in its effect

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A favorite parable of Vivekananda’s was that of a golden bird perched high on the tree of life, radiant and content in its own existence. Another restless, busy bird moves from branch to branch eating the fruits of the tree, both sweet and bitter. Gradually, the active bird ascends to the upper branches. In the light radiating from the plumage of the serene bird, the active bird recognizes his luminous self. There is no “two.”

Vivekananda never tired of reminding us of our true nature, our innate divinity, yes, our luminous self. The Upanishadic truth about man, tat twam asi (thou art that), was a principal theme in his teachings, especially in the West. Behind the manifested many is the One, the ultimate reality, the unchanging, undying unity. When addressing man’s divinity, Vivekananda dropped bombshells:

No books, no scriptures, no science can ever imagine the glory of the Self that appears as man, the most glorious God that ever was, the only God that ever existed, exists or ever will exist.[2]

Religion as defined by Vivekananda is the manifestation of our divinity in every movement of life. Based on his definition, religion is no longer bound up in the dogma or rituals of any “ism.” Similarly, books, temples, or forms are only secondary. The essence of all religions is the realization of the One reality. Vivekananda notes that that One reality is “the Self of our own self.”[3]

In the closing words of his address on Hinduism at the World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, Swami Vivekananda expanded on his ideal of a future religion:

It would be a religion which would have no place for persecution or intolerance…and would recognize a divinity in every man or woman and whose whole scope, whose whole force will be centered in aiding humanity to realize its divine nature.[4]

WORK IT OUT IN LIFE

Credited with sparking a national conversation regarding the eating habits of children, Michelle Obama, wife of the American president, recently remarked that “Kids emulate what they see. You don’t have to make a lecture if you’re living it.” She thus acknowledges the power of example. The spoken word counts but a life lived speaks louder.

An element of Vivekananda’s life which speaks loudly and eloquently to our time is his comprehensiveness. In the first instance, every field and endeavor of man gripped his interest and curiosity, whether economic theories, social thoughts, or scientific discoveries.

An impressive array of technological advances marked the end of the nineteenth century. Walking the streets of New York, Vivekananda’s gaze would have risen to the top of the New York Tribune building, one of the earliest skyscrapers. He would have crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, hailed as a feat of its time. The cable cars on Broadway were his means to the theater. Upon the invitation of Nikola Tesla, inventor and thinker, he toured his scientific laboratory to view his “creations.” Tesla succeeded in implementing mass electrification for the first time by lighting up the entire Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. In all of these instances, Vivekananda would have perceived the energy of the Divine. He once stated, “Art, science and religion are but three different ways of expressing a single truth. But in order to understand this we must have the theory of Advaita [nondualism].”[5]

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