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Swami Vivekananda
In terms of spiritual striving, Swami Vivekananda has said that there are two tendencies of human beings: the first and most common is the attempt to pull Brahman down to the level of one's current understanding.  The path less traveled, though, is to raise oneself to Brahman.  The Illumined beings do this via refining their human mechanisms – mind, thought, intellect, ego, etc.

Swamiji exhibited Abhaya Pratistha, absolute fearlessness.  He was undaunted in the face of struggle, work, or adversity, and willing to take on the karma of others.  He was a direct channel of the Divine whose counsels and decisions were and still are transformative.

Swami Vivekananda's Advaita was masquerading as atheism in his youth.

Swami Vivekananda's restlessness was divine restlessness.  He was ofttimes brooding on the problems of the world, no doubt, but at a universal level, not at a personal or altruistic one -– because that is the level from which all beings can be benefitted.
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