Living in the World by Dying to the Self: Swami Vivekananda’s Modernist Reconfigurations of a Premodern Vedāntic Dialectic

Abstract This article is an exploration of the dialectic this-worldly activism and practice self-effacement in Swami Vivekananda’s discourses. He often exhorts his audiences to cultivate vigorous strength live courageously world on basis their spiritual conviction that they are rooted true self ( ātman ) beyond all spatiotemporal limitations. The boundless , be realized by effacing egocentric self, would become imperishable source fortitude with fearlessness a suffering. Since not constrained bounds “I”, recentered its illimitable heart move towards universal morality. Through this return one’s center existential gravity, one transcends fear hatred “other” as radically alien being. While socioreligious worldview imprinted aspects Advaita formalized Śaṅkara, he also occasionally endorses theocentric visions Rāmānuja Madhva declares these Vedāntic pathways point effacement ego generation fearlessness.