Swami Vivekananda, commonly read and interpreted as a philosophical thinker, a brilliant orator and a world-moving sanyasi, was endowed with an extraordinary poetic set-up of mind and heart who chose to express the doctrines of his faith in well-crafted verse which have both spiritual and literary values. His poems are to the highest degree self-revealing and introspective which unveil the inconceivable spiritual mysteries and make an irresistible urge on the readers’ mind for lofty spiritual realisations. The Vedic conception is that the poet is he who pursues the path of the right (Ritam) and establishes its validity on the basis of his experience for the progressive march of human evolution. He has the power to envision the Truth (Kavyah Satyadrastarah), and is gifted with luminous intelligence and immediate perception. The Vedic saints remarked.
Teacher in English, D.A.V. Public School, Jehanabad (Bihar)
