Swami Vivekananda humanified and humanised

Swami Vivekananda wrote to Shri Pramada Das Mitra, on May 30, 1897 from Almora. Ramanuja, Shankara etc., seem to have been mere Pundits with much narrowness of heart . Where is that love, that weeping heart at the sorrow of others? — Dry pedantry of the Pundit — and the feeling of only oneself getting to salvation hurry-scurry! BLOGGER'S VIEW * The story of "Kankadharastava" (According to his biographers) : Sankara was moved by the poverty of a woman, who has nothing to give him as 'alms', except a small gooseberry fruit. Sankara prayed Goddess Lakshmi singing 'Kanakadhara stavam' and there was a rain of gold gooseberries. *Sankara was an introvert. Vivekananda was an extrovert behind an introvert mask. *Vivekananda joined the bandwagon of 'Collecting donations for serving the poor', imitating the Christian Missionaries. *If we see the epicurean ways of Vivekananda (craving for flesh, ice creams, cool stations, couches, furniture, big people, ca...