Swami Vivekananda · Philosophy
Vivekananda’s turning of Advaita toward the poor: because the same divinity dwells in every being, serving the suffering is literally worshipping God - <em>daridra-narayana</em>, God in the poor - and this conviction founded the Ramakrishna Mission and a new gospel of practical service.
You learned that Vivekananda drew from the divinity of the soul a radical ethic: that God dwells in all beings, so serving the poor ( daridra-narayana , God-in-the-poor) is worship - ‘he who sees Shiva in the poor really worships Shiva’ - and that this founded the Ramakrishna Mission. Explain the idea in y…
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