What Vivekananda valued

There is a touch of irony in the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Vivekananda. Vivekananda constantly reminded Indians that “out of hopelessly intricate mythology must come concrete moral forms; and out of bewildering Yogism must come that most scientific and practical psychology.” Yet Vivekananda, like so many figures of Indian intellectual history, has now been made more into a myth than moral form, more part of an ideology of yogism, than a practical spirit. Exploring why this has happened, may give us more insights into our predicament, than the celebrating the cardboard cut-outs that most of our anniversaries have become.

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