Biographies of various hues and colours.
One thing is clear that it is very difficult to restrict a biographies of some of India great souls under any single specific category because they did not either view or live life in specific silos but led a wholesome life with a macro perspective accommodating many things with certain time tested values and principles ( not necessarily traditions or rituals).
Swami Vivekananda is one such great soul ,descended on earth to make the great philosophies of Sanathan Dharma known to the world in a language and idiom that the West would understand ( he was the first in this aspect).
I have read his speeches, writings of 14 volumes and some 6 of his biographies which included a wide range from abject veneration to rationally sounding nuanced criticism from different perspectives to those who had an uneasy self imposed compulsion to either include or to exclude him from the classifications of religious leader, monk, saint, sage, spiritual guide, liberal philosopher, advocate of socio-political changes and mores, promoter of greatness of Hindu religion/ philosophy/ spiritualistic practices to a promoter of values emanating from these with predominant humanitarian compassion to a person who dared to question certain aggressive activities of Abrahamic religions and so on.
I attempted my own when some organization in Malaysia wanted one for his 150th Anniversary.
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