I know that Vivekananda is confused during early days. But, I am honestly feeling that he is not fully realised later or by the time of Chicago speech also. This opinion, of me, may be due to my ignorance. There may be some strong reason that I am unaware of.
For suppose you can consider the words of Vivekanda on Max Muller
The visit was really a revelation to me......
It was neither the philologist nor the scholar that I saw, but a soul that is every day realising its oneness with the Brahman, a heart that is every moment expanding to reach oneness with the Universal......
And what love he bears towards India! I wish I had a hundredth part of that love for my own motherland! Endued .....
Max Müller is a Vedantist of Vedantists. He has, indeed, caught the real soul of the melody of the Vedanta, in the midst of all its settings of harmonies and discords — the one light that lightens the sects and creeds of the world, the Vedanta, the one principle of which all religions are only applications ........... Is it a wonder that this Western sage does study and appreciate every new star in the firmament of Indian thought, before even the Indians themselves realise its magnitude?
and the intention of Max Muller is clearly faulty by his own letters.
It is evident, atleast for me, that Vivekananda praised just for the sake of praising.
Why does Hindu community considered Vivekananda as an authentic personality keeping aside these discrepancies?