That Tesla's beliefs and ideas corroborated (as did those of other leading scientists) aspects of Vedic science (as an afterword (now, circa 2020) let me mention that Vivekananda's expositions on the Vedanta in no way establishes an absolutist vision of supremacy of a given ideology as far as human social upliftment and making society egalitarian are concerned. In recent years (the rise of Hindu right-wing politics in India), rather unfortunately, a fundamentalist upsurge within India of ultra-conservative Hinduism (packaged as Hindutva) has been setting the clock back upon a tolerant and secular India) is further proof that ideas originating from the human mind have fascinating convergences, across space and time. Thus, serving as his Master Sri Ramakrishna's foremost vehicle for the exposition of Hindu philosophy and the unifying principles of Advaita to the world (his famous words in this regard are pertinent here: I have a message to the West as the Buddha had a message to the East), Swami Vivekananda also served as the catalyst that united East and West in the fields of science and philosophy. And in accomplishing that crucial objective, the beautiful Sarah Bernhardt, perhaps dispatched by destiny, played a curiously vital role.
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