Abstract

I am thankful to Professor Rambachan for responding to my comments. First of all, I retract my statement where I call one of the author's remarks to be a mocking of Swami Vivekananda's view. I apologize for this or any other comment that might project the author to be hostile toward Vivekananda. Some words are due regarding Rambachan's objection to my comparison of his work with that of Paul Hacker. Rambachan's questioning of the "continuity between neo-Vedānta and its classical roots" is the reason that led me to compare his study with Hacker's neo-Vedānta thesis, which makes a similar argument.1It is not unreasonable to think that according to Rambachan Vivekananda's deviation from Śaṅkara was effected by factors...