I feel that great souls like Sri Vivekananda , Sri Aurobindo - people with a higher realm of thinking die but their greatness is distributed amongst many souls to be born .
One very nice observation that came across while watching Kathakali, is that the characters of noble bearing are painted green while the ones that are evil are tainted green with red streaks(depicting evil). Characters like Ravana in Ramayana are also developed with such an interesting combination of good , bad , beautiful and the ugly .Unlike many films which have only shades of Black and white for people's characters .
Ideally Nature tries to establish a balance between good and bad . For without bad around ,how will we know the good ?
So everybody has in their souls a dialogue between this distributed greatness and their own nature(own soul) .
It depends on this "own soul " to recognise and bring out such greatness or to totally extinguish it .
Reading , watching life ,experiencing pain , joys , thinking , being good ,music et al aid in cultivating such greatness.
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"Ideally Nature tries to establish a balance between good and bad." -- do not agree with this..with what I have been taught, that nature tries to establish balance is correct, but it should be rephrased this way "Nature always tries to 'restore' balance". And what caused the disturbance is a serious topic on which volumes have been written by great and not so great people time and again. But our focus should be to participate in the restoration of the balance that always is, at least by not contributing to the disturbance.
"So everybody has in their souls a dialogue between this distributed greatness and their own nature" - If you meant that great people continue to exist in higher realms and continue to influence the common folks like us to keep us in the right path, I do agree with you. But then these are too big things for me to talk, so I will stop here :)
Cultivating greatness - since you have mentioned Swami Vivekananda, and the influence of the great personalities on our own little personas, cultivating greatness should also mean, following their footsteps and serving the Lord (in turn perhaps serving the humanity).
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