... was a man of remarkable qualities, gifted both with a powerful physique and an outstanding intellect. Swamiji reinstated Hinduism. A special feature of his teachings was his keen social conscience and his intense emphasis on service to the poor and the downtrodden, the sick and the hungry. He felt that it is insult to preach religion to a man with a hungry stomach. Swami Vivekananda was not only a visionary, or a monk but also a nationalist and a reformer par excellence. The influence of Swami Vivekananda on the Indian Nationalist Movement is well known. Many in our own country think that religion and mysticism and social amelioration and political and economic reconstruction cannot unite and declare that the secular and spiritual ideals are polar opposites. Such a notion has been responsible for the gross misrepresentations of the spirit of Indian philosophy, religion and culture, but the mystics; the saints and ...

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