According to Swami Vivekananda every improvement in India require first of all an upheaval in religion. In his travels, he found that for the uplift of nation it was necessary to energize the masses which could be achieved only by religion, rejuvenated and revitalized by infusing Vedantic ideas. “In religion,” he said, “lies the vitality of India and so long as the Hindu race do not forget the great inheritance of their forefathers, there is no power on earth to destroy them.” He wanted a religion which would “give us faith in ourselves, a national self-respect and the power to feed and educate the poor and relieve the misery around us. According to him the problems of India are more complicated, more momentous than the problems in any other country. Swamiji’s plan for the elevation of the masses was to give them secular education and to prepare them to work for a better standard of life. But in his view this secular education was to be imparted through religion, for it was only through religion that even ideas of social and political advancement take root in India. “Keep the motto before you,” he said, “elevation of the masses without injuring religion.” Religion was getting confined to don’t touchism, the kitchen and the cooking pot, and Swami Vivekananda wanted to reinstate, pristine Upanishadic religion.” His beautiful summing up of what religion means deserves’ thoughtful consideration. “Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling Nature, external and internal. Do this either by work or worship, or psychic control or philosophy—by one or more or all of these and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines or dogmas or rituals or books or temples or forms are but secondary details.”1. What, according to Vivekananda, does cause upheaval in religion in India?2. What was necessary for the uplift of nation?3. Which type of religion did Vivekananda want?4. What did Vivekananda say about the problems of India?5. What was Swamiji’s plan for the elevation of the masses?6. What did Swamiji want to reinstate?7. What, according to Vivekananda, is religion?8. Locate from the passage the words that mean the following—(i) the money, property etc. you receive from somebody when they die(ii) a series of actions as part of religious ceremony.