Romain roland quotes on swami vivekananda biography

SWAMY RANGANATHANANDA

Monsieur Romain Rolland, one of the greatest thinkers of the modern age, was an artist, and a literary genius and, apart from all this, he was a humanist.

Romain roland quotes on swami vivekananda biography

Hailing from France he did not like the warlike atmosphere of his country and the whole of Europe. He was in search of some spiritual inspiration from any part of the world which could help to compose the distractions of the age in which he lived.

Just after the First World War, being a pacifist, he had to go out of his country and stay in Switzerland. That was the time when he had already written the novel for which he got his Nobel Prize, and another great book, The Life of Beethoven, the famous German composer.

Romain roland quotes on swami vivekananda biography in english

He was in search of some profound humanistic vision which can help the modern age. It was at that point of time our country, India, was passing through a tremendous struggle, a revolutionary struggle of non-co-operation, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.

Gandhiji’s life and