Swami Vivekananda
Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
( Delivered at the Shakespeare Club House, in Pasadena, California, on January 18, 1900 )
SIXTH LESSON
(These lessons are composed of notes of class talks given by Swami Vivekananda to an intimate audience in the house of Mrs. Sara C. Bull, a devoted American disciple, and were preserved by her and finally printed in 1913 for private circulation — Ed .) Sushumnâ: It is very useful to meditate on t
FIFTH LESSON
(These lessons are composed of notes of class talks given by Swami Vivekananda to an intimate audience in the house of Mrs. Sara C. Bull, a devoted American disciple, and were preserved by her and finally printed in 1913 for private circulation — Ed .) Pratyâhâra and Dhâranâ: Krishna says, "All
FOURTH LESSON
(These lessons are composed of notes of class talks given by Swami Vivekananda to an intimate audience in the house of Mrs. Sara C. Bull, a devoted American disciple, and were preserved by her and finally printed in 1913 for private circulation — Ed .) Before we can control the mind we must study
THIRD LESSON
(These lessons are composed of notes of class talks given by Swami Vivekananda to an intimate audience in the house of Mrs. Sara C. Bull, a devoted American disciple, and were preserved by her and finally printed in 1913 for private circulation — Ed .) Kundalini: Realise the soul not as matter, b
SECOND LESSON
(These lessons are composed of notes of class talks given by Swami Vivekananda to an intimate audience in the house of Mrs. Sara C. Bull, a devoted American disciple, and were preserved by her and finally printed in 1913 for private circulation — Ed .) This Yoga is known as the eightfold Yoga, be
FIRST LESSON
(These lessons are composed of notes of class talks given by Swami Vivekananda to an intimate audience in the house of Mrs. Sara C. Bull, a devoted American disciple, and were preserved by her and finally printed in 1913 for private circulation — Ed .) Râja-Yoga is as much a science as any in the
Discourses on Jnana Yoga - Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
(These were originally recorded by a prominent American disciple of the Swami, Miss S. E. Waldo. Swami Saradananda, while he was in America (1896), copied them out from her notebook — Ed .) Expression is necessarily degeneration, because spirit can only be expressed by the "letter", and as St.
Discourses on Jnana Yoga - Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
(These were originally recorded by a prominent American disciple of the Swami, Miss S. E. Waldo. Swami Saradananda, while he was in America (1896), copied them out from her notebook — Ed .) Both happiness and misery are chains, the one golden, the other iron; but both are equally strong to bind
Discourses on Jnana Yoga - Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
(These were originally recorded by a prominent American disciple of the Swami, Miss S. E. Waldo. Swami Saradananda, while he was in America (1896), copied them out from her notebook — Ed .) The Self is the condition of all in the universe, but It can never be conditioned. As soon as we know that
Discourses on Jnana Yoga - Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
(These were originally recorded by a prominent American disciple of the Swami, Miss S. E. Waldo. Swami Saradananda, while he was in America (1896), copied them out from her notebook — Ed .) Thought is all important, for "what we think we become". There was once a Sannyâsin, a holy man, who sat u
Discourses on Jnana Yoga - Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
(These were originally recorded by a prominent American disciple of the Swami, Miss S. E. Waldo. Swami Saradananda, while he was in America (1896), copied them out from her notebook — Ed .) The question why there cannot be eternal bodies is in itself illogical, as "body" is a term applied to a c