Swami Vivekananda 12

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Swami Vivekananda 12

 

The Soul Wants to Soar High

Swami Vivekananda's realization of the highest Truths, both in its

formless and personal aspects, acted as 'theoretical' confirmation of

the highest Vedantic principles as laid down in Upanishads. They

remained confined in the heart of Narendra making him aglow with

effulgent divinity, but the condition of his mind was like the trapped

bird in a golden cage. It wanted to spread its mighty wings,

strengthened with the power of nondual realizations and teachings of the

Master, far afar. It wanted to soar high in limitless sky to cover the

whole humanity under its massive wings and make them aware of those

invaluable truths.

 

The restlessness reached the stage when Swami Vivekananda could no

longer confine himself to the four walls of Baranagore monastery. He

intently desired to go into open world to learn more of practicality of

Vedanta. How can Vedanta be applied in day-to-day life to alleviate the

sufferings of the masses! Is it possible? Such and many similar

questions crowded his mind from dawn to dusk and fro dusk to dawn.

 

And one day, alone, sometime in July 1888, Swami Vivekananda left

Calcutta telling his brother disciples not to follow him. Thus started

the second important phase in the life of Swami Vivekananda, the

Parivrajaka Monk, wandering years of the Swami. He went to Varanasi,

Ayodhya, Vrindavan, Lucknow, Agra, and the Himalayas, thus covering the

entire north of India. These are the great places of historical

importance due to their socio-religious and spiritual importance. These

are the places connected with life and teachings of Rama and Sri

Krishna, Sita and Radha who glorified divine love and dharma as the

final culmination of spiritual quest. There is that great Himalayas

where loneliness prevailed and called the individual sadhaka to ready

himself/herself to merge into the glory of Infinite.

 

This was a short trip and the Swami returned back to Calcutta in a few

months' time. For sometime he remained in the company of his brother

disciples trying to devise the means and the ways to propagate their

Master's message to every nook and corner of India, and world! But his

future plans could but be sketchy, for he didn't understand how to go

about it. The force of knowledge was very great in his heart, acting as

if like a silent bomb, which no one knew when and where would it burst.

The restlessness could not be contained in the narrow confines of his

head and heart; it must come out to cover all the sky. And hence, for

the second time in around July 1890, he left his brothers to wander all

over the country, after seeking blessings from Ma Saradadevi.

 

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