Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The realzation of the Oneness of the Self (Advaita) forms the bed-rock of the religion of Vedanta. [...] It was (and still is) the need of the hour when Swami Vivekananda gave his message to the world from the platform of the Parliament of Religions.1953 361 SWAMI VIVEKANANDA : THE APOSTLE OF UNITY The Swami's clarion call for food to the hungry and help to the afflicted in preference to the churches and sermons lavishly bestowed on the people by Christian missionaries in Oriental countries more e [...] THE MIND IS SUPREME With Upanishadic clearness of insight he read the malaise of the age and in accents of compelling power told the as yet inattentive world that the good and evil of human destiny were before and above all the creation of the mind. [...] Equipped with the wonders of science the advanced thought of the present is being led.to the truth that The conquest of the powers of Nature without control of the impulses of the self cannot solve the problems staring us in the face. [...] A sense of the immensities of our background and of the majesty of the soul may counteract the hurry and impatience and the fiery zeal with which great nations anxious to impose their will on all rush to the fray multiply misery and halt progress.