Friday, September 21, 2007

On Vivekananda - missing the spirit for the words

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Venu said...

I see you have created an enormous output of writing through your blogs. Your critique of Vivekananda is objective, though I feel that ofttimes you go by his words and not the spirit of what he represented. It ought to be remembered that many of his sayings are taken from his letters and it would be worth remembering that he would have been keeping in mind his correspondent when he sought to comment on this or that. While he certainly had no reason to speak the untruth and would not have done so, he could not have always have spoken on pure advaitic lines if he was to make sense to the correspondent. He had often to present matters from a layman's point of view. As a teacher, he would have sought to take his audience towards the higher knowledge by starting with common parlance. Anyway, going by your writings (of which I have not made any deep study yet) and the sharpness of your observations, you are no less a person than a Vivekananda. You are also speaking the truth and you prove that often it can seem that truth contradicts itself to arrive at greater truths. Our expressions of truth are ever dynamic and many faceted and expressive. They are dead words only if we miss the spirit for the letter.
September 1, 2007 12:48 AM