Swami Vivekananda · Philosophy
Vivekananda’s central claim of <em>practical Vedanta</em>: that each soul is not a fallen sinner to be rescued but a divinity to be unfolded - ‘each soul is potentially divine,’ and religion is the manifesting of that divinity we already are.
You learned that Vivekananda made ‘each soul is potentially divine’ the heart of practical Vedanta - that the goal of religion is to manifest a divinity we already possess, and that grounding human dignity in this changes everything. Explain the idea in your own words.
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