Swami Vivekananda
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 .) All men, so-called, are not yet really human beings. Every one has to judge of this world through his own
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 .) Jnâna teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the wor
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 greatest teacher of the Vedanta philosophy was Shankârachârya. By solid reasoning he extracted from th
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 .) Om Tat Sat! To know the Om is to know the secret of the universe. The object of Jnâna-Yoga is the same as
Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
(Fragmentary notes of a lecture recorded by Ida Ansell and reprinted from Vedanta and the West , July-August 1957.)
Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
( Delivered in Detroit on March 19, 1894: Reported in Detroit Tribune )
Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
( Delivered in Memphis on January 21, 1894: Reported in Appeal-Avalanche )
Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
( Delivered in Memphis on January 19, 1894: Reported in Appeal-Avalanche )
Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
( Delivered in Memphis on January 17, 1894: Reported in Appeal-Avalanche )
Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
( Delivered in Minneapolis on November 26, 1893: Reported in the Minneapolis Journal )
Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
In order that a nation may rise, it must have a high ideal. Now, that ideal is, of course, the abstract Brahman. But as you all cannot be inspired by an abstract ideal, you must have a personal ideal. You have got that, in the person of Shri Ramakrishna. The reason why other personages cannot be
Teachings of Swami Vivekananda by Topic
By force, think of one thing at least as Brahman. Of course it is easier to think of Ramakrishna as God, but the danger is that we cannot form Ishvara-buddhi (vision of Divinity) in others. God is eternal, without any form, omnipresent. To think of Him as possessing any form is blasphemy. But the