Vivekananda: His Contribution to the Present Age

Swami Vivekananda's special contribution to the present age is the deliverance of a universal message conducive to man's moral and spiritual upliftment throughout the world and to the harmonious living of all human beings irrespective of differences of colour, creed, sex, age, social rank, cultural standard, political outlook, and so forth. The Swami's personal experience of East and West, his penetrating insight, his erudition, his boundless compassion, his immaculate life, and above all, his realization of the Ultimate Truth, made him specially qualified for the divine commission: the reconstruction of humanity on a spiritual foundation.