Swami Vivekananda · Philosophy
Vivekananda’s gospel of fearlessness: that weakness is the root of all sin and misery, that the one word bursting from the Upanishads is <em>fearlessness</em>, and that true religion is ‘man-making’ - it should make us strong, not cower us into feeling like sinners.
You learned that Vivekananda made strength and fearlessness the centre of his message - ‘strength is life, weakness is death’ - traced sin and misery to weakness, called fearlessness the great word of the Upanishads, and wanted a ‘man-making’ religion. Explain the idea and his critique of life-…
Leads to The Katha Upanishad.
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