PHILOSPHY OF SWAMI VIEKANANDA
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was a comprehensive personality. He had a mysterious personality and consciousness. He had a great knowledge about Hinduism, European philosophy and elements of modern science. PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL CREATIVISM Vivekananda was a spiritualist. He like Dayananda and Gandhi believed in India’s message to west. The source of philosophy of Vivekananda are threefold 1. The great Vedic and Vedanta tradition. Vivekananda inspire from the work of Ramanuja and Madhava, Vallabha and Nimbarka. He is said to to have gone through the eleven volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britanica. He had deep knowledge not only the literature of Hinduism but also of western thoughts from Plato to Spencer. He had full understanding about western scientific achievement. 2. A powerful source of Vivekananda’s philosophy was his contact with Ramakrishna (1836-1886) one of the greatest saints and mystics of modern India. 3. Main source of Vivekananda’s phil