‘Go and play football. Moksa is attained not by reading the Gita, but by playing football,,’ This is how a child renders the philosophy of Swami Vivekananda to me. I smile and observe: Yes, only add the word ‘merely’ before ‘reading’, and please don’t sell away your copy of the Gita to buy a football. It is the Gita that tells you how to play football. And unless you know the rules of the game, you can’t play well.
Swami Vivekananda gave us a dynamic interpretation of the ancient philosophy of Indian humanism. He was a poetic visionary, a revolutionary thinker, and a practising philosopher. He revitalised our tradition, spoke a new language anal inspired the young and the old alike. You have slumbered long enough, he proclaimed, it is now time to wake up. Hence the clarion call: Awake, arise, and stop not till the goal is reached.
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