Swami Vivekananda

Frankenstein’s Monsters “All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind” - Swami Vivekananda. As with any adaptation there are a variety of similarities and differences between Mary Shelley’s original novel Frankenstein and the modern day film, Victor Frankenstein. For the movie, director Paul McGuigan had his own interpretation of Shelley’s novel. He took the novel’s characters and storyline and made it his own. The substance of each story is the same, but they have depicted…

If he was born to a particular caste he was only allowed to do the work that is meant for the people of that caste. Swami Vivekananda who visited Kerala once said that” Kerala is a mad house of castes”. There was a big barrier between peoples of different religions. They used to live different areas and there was no communication between them. Caste system changed a lot in…

bringing solutions to almost all of the crucial problems our modern society is facing these days. We need to take some revolutionary approach in the quality of thinking employed by both decision makers and by each of us in our daily affairs. Swami Vivekananda is often named as the rational thinker of Modern India. He firmly believed that Indians are very unique in this world. He was always after the vary basics of our existence i.e. “What is the truth?” and “What is beneficial to mankind?,…

This above all to thine own self be true is what polonious tells Laertes among other things as he embarks on a journey , in shakespeares hamlet .Be true to yourself is an adage that seems to have taken more relevance and importance in modern times .It maybe tattooed on someones arm or maybe be on an inspirational poster or even found in blogs. Being true to yourself is closely related to individualism. It means living the way we want to, believing in things we want to without bothering others.…

more alike when you think of the father is compared towards Brahma, the creator, and the Krishna compared to the son, preserver of creation and lastly Shiva compared to the holy spirit the end of creation. In a small way, they are more alike. Swami Vivekananda has related Hinduism to Christianity by saying a quote about Hinduism, “Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God and say utterly, ‘Thy will be done.’ We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.” It…

uncertainty, the first thing we need to ask ourselves is, "What would God do? What does His Word say about this situation I'm in?" and act accordingly. Swami Vivekananda, a spiritual guru of India and around the world, once said, "The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free". Vivekananda also hits on that "All power is within you; you can do anything and everything" which resembles the Bible verse "I can do all things…

dragging it through to the 19th century (E. Page, 2003). During this period of total domination, political control and exploitation of India, there were many influential figures that influenced the Hindu nationalism, i.e. Swami Dayananda Sarawati (1824-1883), Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) and more, all of whom had different ideologies and approaches to the matter. They all strongly influenced movements of resistance to the…

He is the opposite of Hamlet who is very rash and does not think things through. Swami Vivekananda once said “It is the Level-headed Man, the Calm Man, of Good Judgement and cool nerves, of Great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself” (2013), this quote describes Horatio perfectly. In the early scenes of the play…

Hindu Rashtra is one of the most complex and misunderstood concepts of modern India. Intellectuals and opinion makers had divergent beliefs on this issue. There has been a historical significance as well as modern understanding of this concept that makes it a very widely debated issue on various print and visual media. The concept of Hindu rashtra can be understood by understanding the meaning of the two words ‘Hindu’ and ‘rashtra’ separately. The term Hindu connotes not a particular religion,…

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