What was the central message of Swami Vivekananda ?
Swami Vivekananda’s lectures, talks, letters, poems -his life’s work-is published in nine volumes entitled The complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Is there any central message of Swamiji that runs through the pages of these nine volumes? Let us hear Swamiji himself: ’My ideal can be put into a few words and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.’ Man’s inherent divinity was Swamiji’s central message. The following famous quotation of Swamiji can be our mantra for personality development: ‘Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal.’
Swamiji was never tired of rousing people to be conscious of their inherent divinity and perfection. He wanted this divinity to manifest in our day to day lives. In fact, he held this manifestation of divinity as the sole index of civilization of human-kind:
“A nation may conquer the waves, control the elements, develop the utilitarian problems of life seemingly to the utmost limits, and yet not realize that in the individual, the highest type of civilization is found in him who has learned to conquer self.”
“This universe is simply a gymnasium in which the soul is taking exercise; and after these exercises we become gods. So the value of everything is to be decided by how far it is a manifestation of God. Civilization is the manifestation of that divinity in man.”
This divinity in us is the repository of eternal existence, eternal knowledge and eternal bliss. The more it manifests, the more we experience abiding happiness and get supreme knowledge.
This divinity in us is the repository of eternal existence, eternal knowledge and eternal bliss. The more it manifests, the more we experience abiding happiness and get supreme knowledge.
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