A modern reformer and monk who reframed Vedanta philosophy for a global audience and connected classical ideas to contemporary social concerns.
Vivekananda is a modern figure, and — as with B. R. Ambedkar elsewhere in this archive — that changes the kind of evidence available. Public lectures, published writings, and correspondence survive in abundance, so this page rests on the documented record rather than on the tradition-versus-history caution that governs the archive's ancient figures.
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Knowledge or insight as a path to liberation — not information, but a transforming realization of how things ultimately are.
Liberation or release, framed as the ultimate aim in several Indian traditions — with each defining what it means differently.
An influential philosopher associated with a non-dualist reading of Vedanta and with extensive commentarial work — with much of his biography known through later tradition.
A modern poet, writer, and thinker whose work drew on Upanishadic ideas and devotional sensibility to address distinctly modern questions about self, nation, and humanity.
A family of interpretive schools centered on the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita.