Paper Details

Name: Ayon Halder
Country: India

Year: 2014
Volume: Volume-1, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 79-83

India has given birth to several Hindu religious reformers along with influential spiritual personalities who have contributed to build the nation. They have all stressed upon the fact that India is avowedly the most notable country where religious introspection has fairly a long cherished history. Vivekananda is mainly considered to be an eminent figure among the others for making Hindu religion popular among the people of the West. He has always been eager to look into all other religious doctrines in order to broaden the mental horizon and support the ideals of religious tolerance. He has a firm conviction that no nation can progress without possessing an inherently strong religiosity. As an Indian monk he never has any reservations against other religious doctrines and this proves quite evident if we go through his poem No One to Blame in which he explains the essence of Buddhist philosophy. In one of his lectures while Vivekananda draws a comparison between Hinduism and Buddhist philosophy he explicitly admits that “The Vedanta philosophy is the foundation of Buddhism and everything else in India, and the Advaita philosophy of the modern school has a great many conclusions similar to those of the Buddhists.”