SWAMY VIVEKANANDA'S PERSPECTIVE OF RELIGION

ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR WAR AND PEACE

Abstract

In the twentieth-Century Westernizing world humanity is trying to gain security in exchange for their submission to social, political and economic bondage. Man living in such a regimented world tries to seek solace and peace offered in the realm of religion. But historical precedents are proving decisively true as man flees from religious persecution once again. This flight seems even more horrifying in the face of his anxiety to fly from evil, terror and misery which pursues him relentlessly. It is at this critical juncture, that the spirit of man needs a 'renaissance' as it were, to walk once again on the path of freedom"sharp as the Blade of a razor, long and difficult and hard to cross" . Let mankind shed its weakness, the cause for all ignorance and misery and set the power of strength in motion to endure sorrow and realise the eternal jewel of Peace.