Can AI Replace Human Beings? Swami Vivekananda’s Prophetic Insight

Can AI replace humans? Swami Vivekananda’s wisdom shows why teachers, coaches, and human presence remain essential in the AI age.

Why living teachers and human presence still matter in an AI age

We are living through an extraordinary moment. Every week there is a new AI app promising instant insight, a better plan, a calmer mind. I am often asked two things: “Will coaching be replaced by AI? What other professions will be replaced by AI?” and “Is the human element not needed anymore?” My short answer: AI will change how we work, but it will not replace what is most human about coaching or the human element in all other professions, even coding. It can be a powerful first responder. It cannot become the field in which transformation happens, that wil continue to be owned by humans.

What AI already does beautifully

It offers immediate reflection so people can share confusion, name feelings, and get a clear next step. It brings breadth and memory, organizing notes, tracking themes, and recalling details quickly. It also provides steady practice and prompts, from journaling cues to role-play scripts, which makes it a helpful partner.

For many, this is the doorway that lowers the barrier to begin. But for some experts, it pushes them in directions they don’t want to, it dilutes their voice and their thinking process.

Swami Vivekananda on Why Insentient Tools Are Not Enough

I was reading Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda which is also a collection of his purports to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and came across this purport by him to the Samadhi Pada Section, Verse 26

He says,

"It is true that all knowledge is within ourselves, but this has to be called forth by another knowledge. Although the capacity to know is inside us, it must be called out, and that calling out of knowledge can only be done, a Yogi maintains, through another knowledge. Dead, insentient matter never calls out knowledge, it is the action of knowledge that brings out knowledge. Knowing beings must be with us to call forth what is in us, so these teachers were always necessary. The world was never without them, and no knowledge can come without them."

Swami Vivekananda, Raja Yoga Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Samadhi Pada, Verse 26

Swami Vivekananda is saying that the seed of knowledge already lives inside us, but it does not sprout by itself. It needs a living spark to awaken it. Only a living being, already awake to some degree, can call forth that inner knowing in another. This is why teachers, gurus, and guides are necessary. Their presence, attention, and realized understanding stir our own.

It is amazing how clear Swami Vivekananda is. He says we need a sentient being to awaken what is within us, and that insentient matter cannot do it. His words feel prophetic today. It is almost as if he could see the age of AI coming and left a guiding note for us. Tools can help, but a living presence calls forth living knowledge. Insentient matter cannot do this work because it has no awareness to transmit.

Applied to spiritual growth, and knowledge workers today, AI is a powerful tool but it is not a living, aware presence. It does not pray, bless, or hold you in a field of consciousness. It arranges information, but it cannot transmit realization.

Can AI Replace Humans? What Humans Do That AI Cannot

I have experienced a deep connection with my clients where I am tuned fully with them. During an in person appointment (even on zoom), I am responding to their questions and coaching moments based on the data I naturally collect through:

1) Non verbal communication : expressions, body language, face color changes, grooming, health cues, etc

2) The etheric energy transfer from their field to mine( telepathy) which helps me respond to not just what they are saying, but also what is not yet said - what they have been carrying in their etheric body. (Read my blog on Leadership beyond zoom calls: Your Physical presence matters if you want to learn more about this.)

This is an etheric transfer of thoughts and energy which help me stay in step with my clients and get the whole landscape of their feelings, needs, emotions, past history - even when none of that has been verbally or nonverbally shared with me.

It helps me get insights about my clients even beyond appointments and to intuitively and proactively reach out to them between appointments with insights. This is a network of psychic prana that helps me stay connected with them and serve them. Scientists now call this quantum entanglement.

This holds true for all professions as we all operate in a field of quantum entanglement, and suspended knowledge in ether, that we as sentient beings access as we make decisions.

Books, Online Courses, Transmission, and Mediums that Carry Energy

One may argue that a book is not sentient and yet books are so transformative. Books carry the attention and pranic energy poured into them by a human author. The book carries this separated energy imprint of the author. That energy imprint travels to the reader. Even then, readers often need a human guide to metabolize the insight into lived habit. The same holds true for online courses created by a human

Gurus, sat-cit-ānanda, and Why Presence Matters

If this is my experience as a trained coach, imagine the depth at which spiritually realized gurus respond. They are operating on a spiritual frequency deeply connected to their sat-cit-ānanda nature, i.e. full of eternity, knowledge and bliss. Their presence and questions organizes the seeker’s inner world. No AI app can replace that frequency.

The Guru by years of spiritual practice and surrender has a divine auric field that can extend to hundreds of meters. When a disciple enters their guru's field, they feel uplifted and happy. Anyone who enters that field, immediately feels uplifted in their energy, thoughts, desires and consciousness. Again AI cannot replace this, because it is not sentient.

True North vs. Too Many Norths (10,000 options)

Different AIs have different personas. Some feel agreeable, others more combative or hyper-rational. Useful, yes. But coaching, especially spiritual coaching, is not about being steered by the loudest suggestion. It is about helping a person return to their True North, their divine consciousness, and then choosing aligned action from there. AI can generate many directions, too many norths - whether it is for your writing, life direction, legal strategy, software architecture strategy. A human coach helps you discern which one is yours.

What AI cannot replace in the human touch in any profession

1) The turning point in a real conversation: Sometimes one honest and vulnerable moment changes the whole direction of a conversation. It opens a door to truth that thinking alone could not find. AI does not feel the room, notice a trembling voice, or sense the shift in a person’s heart. It predicts text, but it does not share the lived moment.

2) A safe space to just feel: A founder came in ready with a plan. We set it aside and made room for what he was actually feeling. As he let the grief surface and dissolve, his clarity returned. The plan he wrote after that was simple and true. As coaches, we create a calm and caring space so the client can feel what they feel without pressure or hurry. In that safety, emotions settle and clarity appears. AI does not offer human warmth or co-regulation of the nervous system. It cannot hold silence with you or adjust its presence by reading your breath and posture.

3) Being a steady, sentient witness: Last week a client paused mid-sentence and went quiet. She was overhwlemed with emotion. My training guided me to just stay with her in silence. In that space she named the real fear behind a year of conflict at work. That one moment changed her next ninety days. With our presence we say, “I see you, and I am with you.” Feeling truly seen helps the client find the courage to take the next honest step. AI can write supportive words, but it does not have eyes that meet yours or a body that sits with you. It cannot share courage through felt human connection.

4) Prayerful intention and grace: Before each appointment, I pray to be an instrument of God’s wisdom and to serve the person before me for their highest good. More than once, a question arrived that I had not planned. It was the exact question they needed, and the conversation opened.This keeps the work guided by grace, not just coaching techniques. AI does not pray, seek guidance, or align with conscience. It is not sentient, so it cannot be an instrument of divine grace into the work.

5) Mood, mindset, and values: Humans bring a steady mood, a clear mindset, and lived values to their work. We look for professionals whose energy and ethics match ours, and that steady alignment builds trust over time. AI reflects patterns and values from thousands of sources on the internet, so its tone and priorities can shift with the data it sees. It has no stable inner compass, so its energy, mood, and values are not consistent. This can be confusing for a user solely depending on AI for direction.

This is true in many fields, including lawyers, chartered accountants, doctors, and more. AI can draft documents, check numbers, or suggest diagnoses, but it does not sit with a client in fear, weigh trade-offs in a gray area, or carry responsibility when a choice affects a life or livelihood. A lawyer’s judgment in the room, a CA’s trust with a family’s finances, and a doctor’s bedside presence come from human care, ethics, and experience.

People need someone who can read the moment, ask the next right question, and stand with them when the stakes are high. AI can help with speed and options. Humans bring wisdom, courage, and accountability.

This is true for software engineers too. AI can write boilerplate code, suggest fixes, and generate tests, but it does not own the problem or speak with users to clarify fuzzy requirements. A good engineer chooses the right trade-offs for security, privacy, performance, and long-term maintenance, and designs systems that fail safely. They read the team and the moment, explain choices to product and leadership, mentor juniors, and keep the codebase coherent over time. When things break in production, a human takes responsibility, investigates calmly, and restores trust.

So, will AI replace coaches?

AI will become the best first responder most people have ever had. Coaching will remain the last mile of transformation, where human presence, intuition, and grace do what algorithms will not. Used wisely, AI will not diminish coaching. It will make more people ready for it.

If you are exploring this path: begin where you are. Let AI help you start. Then step into a human field that can meet you, lift you, and walk you home to your True North.

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