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Swami Vivekananda: The Living Vedanta by Chaturvedi Badrinath is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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'You don't simply read a man like Vivekananda. In reading him, you meet him. And if you don't meet him and feel him contemporaneously, you can understand little of the meaning of what he is saying.' In the course of a short life of thirty-nine years, Swami Vivekananda came to be regarded as the patriot–saint of modern India. Despite all that has been written about his life and his epoch-making address at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago, 1893, Swami Vivekananda remains a paradox: much is known about him, but very little is understood about the man and his relevance to our own troubled times. In Swami Vivekananda: The Living Vedanta, Chaturvedi Badrinath looks behind the iconic faГ§ade, seeking to liberate Vivekananda from the confines of the worship room. He examines the various facets of a man who was as much at ease with philosophical discourse as he was with cooking; whose childlike love for ice cream went hand in hand with his stature as a prophet. The author...

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Chaturvedi Badrinath
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9788184755077
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Memoir, Biography, Humanities
Rating
3.99 / 5 (72 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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