• Ms. Urmila Ramchiary

UNIVERSAL RELIGION OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA AND ITS IMPORTANCE Ms. Urmila Ramchiary Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy D.H.S.K. College, Dibrugarh, Assam(India) Abstract: Religion is that discipline or the way of life which enables a man to make a change in his own nature. For centuries in India religion is used mainly to explain away the world or as the means of escaping from its bondage. All individual religions are aspects of the one religion, which stands for self realization of the external relation between the eternal soul and eternal God. But Vivekananda aims at applying religion to solve the day to day problems of men as well. He is the first great Indian thinker of modern times to apply the principles of religion to solving the national problems and making religion a powerful instrument for social change. When Vivekananda pleads for a Universal Religion, he means not a new religion but a new attitude towards all religions. And he speaks on behalf of, not his own religion, Hinduism, but of all religion without any exception. “It will be a religion which will have no place for persecution or intolerance in its polity, which will recognize divinity in every man and woman, and whose whole scope, whose whole force will be created in aiding humanity to realize its own true, divine nature.” “The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the spirit of the others and yet preserve the individuality and grow according to his own law of growth.” Vivekananda accepts that part of religion only which integrates man, nations and the races.

Keywords: Assimilate, Humanity, Instrumental, Intolerance, Persecution, Religion, Universal

"UNIVERSAL RELIGION OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA AND ITS IMPORTANCE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no.c960-c964, February-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202214.pdf

"UNIVERSAL RELIGION OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA AND ITS IMPORTANCE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no. ppc960-c964, February-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202214.pdf