Swami vivekananda’s social ethics – a praxis approach

Swami Vivekananda, the spiritual leader of modern India and rejuvenator of Hinduism has tremendous achievements to his credit during his short span of life of 39 years. Though a monk and a spiritual personality, he was not a reclause but enlivened India’s religion and its national confidence which was at its lowest level after over a hundred years of colonial rule. At a time when Hinduism was criticized by western thinkers as archaic and socially offensive he showed to the Indian themselves and to the west how the idealistic philosophy of Hinduism can be practiced as a socially consistent humanitarian ethics. In all his speeches, writings and preachings he proclaimed the universality, tolerant and humanist philosophy of Advaita Vedanta. His message was basically spiritual and philosophical but it had deep practical social implications.