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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda
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“Ladies, excuse me, but through centuries of slavery we have become like a nation of women,” the charismatic Bengali monk Vivekananda declared in one of his fiery trademark speeches, given at Madras in 1897. The iconic, turban swami in saffron had represented Hinduism at the World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, the first ever gathering of world religions, as they had only recently solidified. He had electrified the delegates with eloquent talks on how the East was superior in spirituality to the West. the swami had first become known as the disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, the famous Kali-adoring, ragged hold man from Kamarpukar often found in an ecstatic trance. Devoted to the divine feminine, Ramarkishna deified his chaste bride Sarada Devi, hailed as Sri Sri Maa, or the “Holy Mother.” In his Hondoos, Ward had sansationalized such wifely deification rituals as “diabolical business,” yet for the celibate Ramakrishna the pujas were a way to neutralize the erotic, to transcendent any human urges by reaching the metaphysical plane. Moving away from the ideas of his teacher, Vivekananda turned to make divinity in soaring lectures that galvanized Indian audiences to rise and fight, as if entering a sacred boxing ring

First of all, our young men must be strong,” Vivekananda declared in another speech from 1897, eleven years before Baden-Powell established the Boy Scouts. . . . . In his vision there was no place for the goddesses of sati, whom Vivekananda counted among the backward superstitions that kept India shackled to an emasculated past. Instead, the guru urged Hindu men upward and godward in the struggle for India’s freedom. “Make your nerves strong. What we want: muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made,” declared the swami, who could never reconcile himself to the ill health that plagued him. Three years before his death in 1902, at only thirty nine, Vivekananda wrote conflicted hymn – almost continuation of the praye began by “the Father,” Barthelemy Prosper Enfantin, in a jail cell long before:

‘O Thou, Mother of the Universe, vouchsafe manliness unto me!
O Thou, Mother of Strength, take away my weakness,
Take away my unmanliness and make me a Man!’ ~ Page 227

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