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Monday, August 28, 2023

Biographies of various hues and colours.

 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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