write a letter to your friend describing the qualities you like the most in swami vivekananda
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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 develop 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 and relevance of 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.