AN ANALYSIS OF PRE-LIMINAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE BIOGRAPHY OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA.

Abstract

In a time of global mobility, digital networking, interethnicity, transnationality, ecological rethinking of species boundaries, and technological redefining of what it means to be human, liminality—the boundary or middle ground between process stages, spatial complexes, and inner stages—is crucial. Since autobiographies typically involve major life changes, transitions, and confusion, liminality might be helpful. Some people are liminal during certain times in their lives, when they are not quite who they used to be but have not quite become who they will be. There is a lot of uncertainty, change, and possibility in this state a lot of autobiographies start with the subject's childhood to show the reader how they grew up.  The present study has focused on the early life of Swami Vivekananda where the incidents of his earlier life are connected to pre liminal stage. His transformation from doubtfulness to clarification, apprehensions to trust and unsteadiness to surrender are discussed through a few incidents in his life which indicate the stage of pre liminal.