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- Title
LIFE IS A VOYAGE: Swami Vivekananda's Mission and Teachings -- A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis with Reference to the Theme of HOMECOMING.
- Authors
Naicker, Suren
- Abstract
This study offers an in-depth analysis of the well-known LIFE AS A JOURNEY conceptual metaphor, applied to Vivekananda's mission as he saw it, as well as his teachings. Using conceptual metaphor theory as a framework, Vivekananda's Complete Works were manually and electronically mined for examples of how he conceptualized his own mission, which culminated in the formation of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, a world-wide neo-Hindu organization. This was a corpus-based study, which starts with an overview of who Vivekananda was, including a discussion of his influence on other neo-Hindu leaders. This study shows that Vivekananda had a very clear understanding of his life's mission, and saw himself almost in a messianic role, and was glad when his work was done, so he could return to his Cosmic 'Home'. He uses these key metaphors to explain spiritual life in general as well as his own life's work.
- Subjects
VIVEKANANDA, Swami, 1863-1902; COGNITIVE analysis; LINGUISTIC analysis; HOMECOMING; SPIRITUAL life; PRODUCTIVE life span
- Publication
Alternation, 2019, p247
- ISSN
1023-1757
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29086/2519-5476/2019/sp28.4a10