In traditional Advaita Vedanta, your active life was seen as a way of preparing you for spirituality. But in Vivekananda, it becomes the same rank as knowledge and meditation and devotion and work. His famous definition of spirituality of religion: It is the manifestation of the divinity already within us. You do it by love, worship, the path of devotion, Bhakti yoga. Do it by psychic control, he says meditation, or by service,. By work and service, karma yoga, by one or more or all of these and be free.
On the auspicious occasion of Swami Vivekananda's Tithi Puja, Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on his powerful and timeless teachings.