So many thoughts, conjectures, and questions as I was flipping through this new biography of Swami Vivekananda out from Harvard University Press. How to write about a luminous presence who had 'Sankara's intellect and the Buddha's heart'?
In one of SV's 1893 lectures he says, almost a casual and throwaway phrase in a long text: "Children of immortal bliss' - what a sweet, what a hopeful name!".
Today, I realized it was a phrase fragment from the Shwetashwatara Upanisad. 'shrinvanthu vishwe amritasya putraa...
Today, I realized it was a phrase fragment from the Shwetashwatara Upanisad. 'shrinvanthu vishwe amritasya putraa...
A review of the above book by @pbmehta indianexpress.com
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