Swami Vivekananda
Conception of the Universe in Distant India
Swami Vivekananda, the Hindu philosopher, addressed the regular monthly meeting of the Southern California Academy of Sciences at Unity Church last evening. The audience was large and appreciative, and at the end of the lecture a number of questions were asked by members of the audience and answ
Lectures on Hindoo Religion and Philosophy
. . The well-known expositor of the Hindoo philosophy, dressed in the yellow robe of the Brahmin caste, spoke in part as follows:
Swami Vivekananda's lecture before the Academy of
Unity church was filled last evening with a large audience to hear the Swami Vivekananda, a native of India, lecture on the kosmos, or the Veda conception of the universe under the auspices of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. . . .
Newspaper and periodical reports published during Swami Vivekananda's lifetime
Having been directed by the Editor, writes our representative, to interview Swami Vivekananda on the question of converts to Hinduism, I found an opportunity one evening on the roof of a Garga houseboat. It was after nightfall, and we had stopped at the embankments of the Ramakrishna Math, and t
Newspaper and periodical reports published during Swami Vivekananda's lifetime
It was early one Sunday morning, writes our representative, in a beautiful Himalayan valley, that I was at last able to carry out the order of the Editor, and call on the Swami Vivekananda, to ascertain something of his views on the position and prospects of Indian Women. "Let us go for a walk",
Newspaper and periodical reports published during Swami Vivekananda's lifetime
In an interview which a representative of Prabuddha Bharata had recently with the Swami Vivekananda, that great Teacher was asked: "What do you consider the distinguishing feature of your movement, Swamiji?" "Aggression," said the Swami promptly, "aggression in a religious sense only. Other sect
Newspaper and periodical reports published during Swami Vivekananda's lifetime
Swami Vivekananda, in introducing the lecturer Swami Saradananda, said:
Newspaper and periodical reports published during Swami Vivekananda's lifetime
Swami Vivekananda has been urging on the people of Lahore and Sialkote the need of practical work. The starving millions, he urged, cannot live on metaphysical speculation; they require bread; and in a lecture he gave at Lahore on Bhakti, he suggested as the best religion for to-day that everyma
Times Democrat Lima, Ohio
This second hand story, recounted by John Henry Barrows, one of Vivekananda’s detractors, is not dependable. It was published in the Outlook magazine and re- published in several newspapers.
Newspaper and periodical reports published during Swami Vivekananda's lifetime
" The Swami seems to have been moving in fine society in the United States , if we are to believe his own words.
An Indian Beauty from Georgia
Previously published in the Chicago Times Herald, the anecdote below is, in our opinion, not reliable. It appears in a column of several anecdotes and news briefs in The Times Democrat of Lima, Ohio, on Friday. July 2, 1897, and refers to an incident, if true, which would have occurred in th
June 13, 1897. wrote
Referring to a statement attributed to the swami--" Scarcely could I go to a meeting or a society but I found three-quarters of the women present had turned out their husbands and children. It is so here, there, and everywhere." and another from the Brahmavddin, June 19, 1897, the Swami