How far are the views of Swami Vivekananda successful in developing the core ideals and values of morality in human behaviour? Discuss.

Core ideals he offered

• He held that the human being is not a worm of original sin but a being who can rise by character, which restores dignity as the first moral fact.
• Strength and abhaya, fearlessness, were duties: weakness that consents to a lie or a bribe is, for him, the real immorality.
• Service of man as service of God, including the poor as Daridra Narayana, turns charity into a duty of respect, not a performance of pity.
• Education was man-making: truthfulness, work, and a trained will, not only degrees, which is still the ethics of a public servant’s formation.
• Harmony of religions and a practical Vedanta asked the person to see the same dignity in the neighbour of another faith, which is fraternity in the Preamble’s language.

How far they succeed in behaviour

• They succeed where a person needs an inner reason to stay honest when the inspector is absent: the officer who refuses a gift in a tehsil is living Vivekananda’s strength.
• Ramakrishna Mission hospitals and schools show the service ideal in institutions, which a district administration can still copy in camps and night schools.
• In Uttar Pradesh flood or heatwave work, treating the displaced as persons with divinity, not as a crowd to be counted, improves both morality and relief quality.
• They succeed only in part: mysticism does not replace Conduct Rules, audit, or Article 14; a slogan of strength can also become harshness toward the weak if compassion is dropped.
• A bureaucracy needs Nolan, the Second ARC, and punishment for graft; Vivekananda supplies the motive of character, not the criminal procedure.
• A fair discussion therefore says: highly successful as a source of ideals — dignity, courage, service, harmony — and limited as a complete technology of behaviour change without institutions.