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attained, and only secondarily on his
economic and social environment. It is
obvious to say that economically highly
developed societies can foster, cannot
escape from, alienation, loneliness, and
crime; but the other truth is not so obvious,
yet India's experience demonstrates it, that
poverty and crime need not go together, that
poverty of the pocket need not always mean
poverty of heart. If the human consciousness
functions at the sensate level, and at the
level of the ego presiding over man's organic
system, man can scatter only tension and
peacelessness around him. But if it functions
from the deeper level of his divine dimension
he will become naturally and spontaneously,
a focus of love and peace and fearlessness
around him.
In the book 'Swami Vivekananda: HIS
HUMANISM' Swami Ranganathananda says
that Swami Vivekananda is over confident
with his own people that they will surely
velop their spirit of humanism with the
divine power already embedded in their
minds. Swami Vivekananda insists that
the people should develop the spirit of
humanism gradually until it unfurls and
blossoms into a divine power. Swami
Vivekananda says that fear which is the first
enemy of man should get away so that it
paves the way for the divinity which is very
essential. He also says that foreigners are
devoid of divine power which results into
their uncivilized bestiality and immoral life.
Swami Ranganathananda says:
A humanism that is strengthened and
sustained by the ignition of the divine spark
in man is far different from the current
humanism of the West, including its scientific
humanism. There is a universality and
dynamism in the former, and its energies are
entirely positive and never negative. That
is the strength and range relevance
Swami Vivekananda's Vedantic humanism.
He accepts the human situation, man as
the readers find him in society. He also
accepts the need for the manipulation of his
socio-political conditions, up to a point, to
ensure his growth and development. But he
will insist that man must develop and grow
further, that he must evolve and steadily
unfold also the higher divine possibilities
hidden within him. This is echoed in modern
biology in the concept of psycho-social
evolution, of evolution rising from the
organic level to the ethical and moral levels.
Swami Vivekananda would appreciate the
remark of the Western thinker, it may be
Victor Hugo, that we are not men yet, but
only candidates to humanity! If man's inside
is tense and tumultuous, it means that he
has not overcome fear; it means further that
he cannot be a guarantee for the peace and
fearlessness of the rest of the world.
Swami Ranganathananda's view reveals that the Humanism is the basic and innate fundamental trait of every human being which is the opener of divine power already existed in the body of every human being.
The Treaty of Versailles says: "More
wars are caused by bad-tempered
people seeking to discuss peace
measures than by good tempered people
seeking to discuss war measures!" The
UNESCO Preamble embodies this very
sentiment: "Since wars begin in the
minds of men, it is in the minds of men
that the defences of peace must be
constructed". Swami Vivekananda's
humanism fully endorses this sentiment.
The world knows that the Treaty of
Versailles was drawn up by people who
were full of tempers compounded of
nationalistic violence and colonialist
exploitation. Certainly such minds could
not bring peace. On the contrary as later
events proved, they were sowing seeds of a
more devastating war in the name of peace,
along with the seeds of much tension and
fear in the inter-war years. It is evident that
Swami Vivekananda is in favour of war-free
world and humanism. He says that
humanism should take part in all the dealings
which happen between the countries in
connection with the wars. All the countries
mainly concerned with the capturing of the
boundaries of neighbouring countries, and it
is against the spirit of Versailles Treaty which
says to abhor violence and exploitation while
doing peace talks with the other countries.