Sri Aurobindo was also certain that "the going forth of
Vivekananda, marked out by the Master as the heroic soul destined to take the
world between his two hands and change it, was the first visible sign to the
world that India was awake not only to survive but to conquer."
The
lion-heart of Vivekananda sought to shake the world. Yet ... "Vivekananda
was a soul of puissance if ever there was one," said Sri Aurobindo talking
of leaven, a power of unformed stir and ferment out of which forms must result,
great souls and great influences who live on in the soul of India, "a very
lion among men, but the definite work he has left behind is quite
incommensurate with our impression of his creative might and energy. We
perceive his influence still working gigantically, we know not well how, we
know not well where, in something that is not yet formed, something leonine,
grand, intuitive, up heaving that has entered the soul of India and we say, 'Behold, Vivekananda still lives in the
soul of his Mother and in the souls of her children.'" Sri Aurobindo
concluded with the remark: "So it is with all. Not only are the men
greater than their definite works, but their influence is so wide and formless
that it has little relation to any formal work that they have left behind them." ***
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