LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:10 October 2020
ISSN 1930-2940

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Swami Vivekananda’s Blend of Materialism and Spiritualism

J. Kavithanjali, MBA., M.Lib Sci., PGDC

Abstract

This paper examines the blend of materialism and spiritualism as reflected in his spiritual orientation and humanistic outlook in life.

Keywords: Vivekananda, spiritualism, materialism.

Modern India has produced many great orators. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) holds a significant place among them. He was born on Monday, January 12th, 1863. His pre-monastic name given by his family was Narendranath. His education began with learning the Bengali alphabet/script and initial English words from his mother. His boyish imagination very often travelled back to the hallowed days of the epic past, when he listened with rapt attention to the romantic tales of the Ramayana as told by his mother, and he became so much thrilled to hear their soul-stirring episodes that he began to offer worship to Sita-Ram and earnestly longed to have a vision of the devout Hanuman. Once he meditated in a room of his house with so much rapt attention that the door of the room had to be broken to awaken him. Thus, the “Yogic consciousness” was evident in him from his childhood days. His rousing and fiery words coloured with Hindu mythologies are still inspiring many devotees and others both in the East and the West.

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J. Kavithanjali, MBA., M.Lib Sci., PGDC
Ph.D. Scholar (Part-Time)
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai -625 021
Tamilnadu, India
shivakavitha1111@gmail.com
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