Swami Vivekananda
Reminiscences of Vivekananda by Emma Calve
(From 'My Life' by Emma Calve. Translated by Rosamond Gilder)
Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda by Goswami Brij Lal
'In November (1897) Swami Vivekananda visited Lahore along with his disciples. He was put up in the Haveli of Raja Dhyan Singh at Hira-mandi, where Jagadguru Shankaracharya also had been put up earlier. Goswamiji (Tirtha Ram) and his students had arranged for his lectures also in the same
(Reprinted from Vedanta Kesari, September 1972)
This will be a rather personal affair, nevertheless interesting, to tell you how I first came into contact with the work which had been started since the advent of Sri Ramakrishna. It was in 1890 that we formed a small group of students among ourselves - most of them, my classmates. We were ab
John Lincoln Blauss
The writer disturbed by the influence Vivekananda had on the Ethical Society of Brooklyn wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times. He is probably referring to lectures Vivekananda made to this group in late 1894 and early 1895. Dr. Charles Higgins wrote a letter of response to Blauss’s
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THE LOSS OF SHRADDHA IN INDIA AND N EED OF ITS REVIVAL — MEN WE WANT — REAL SOCIAL REFORM
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HINK OF D EATH A LWAYS AND N EW L IFE W ILL C OME W ITHIN — W ORK FOR O THERS — G OD THE L AST R EFUGE
Complete books online by the Swami
INDIA WANTS NOT LECTURING BUT WORK — THE CRYING PROBLEM IN INDIA IS POVERTY — YOUNG SANNYASINS TO BE TRAINED BOTH AS SECULAR AND SPIRITUAL TEACHERS AND WORKERS FOR THE MASSES — EXHORTATIONS TO YOUNG MEN TO WORK FOR OTHERS
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REMINISCENCES — THE PROBLEM OF FAMINES IN INDIA AND SELF-SACRIFICING WORKERS — EAST AND WEST — IS IT SATTVA OR TAMAS — A NATION OF MENDICANTS — THE "GIVE AND TAKE" POLICY — TELL A MAN HIS DEFECTS DIRECTLY BUT PRAISE HIS VIRTUES BEFORE OTHERS — VIVEKANANDA EVERYONE MAY BECOME — UNBR
Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda
Ella Wheeler Wilcox met Swami Vivekananda in NY 1895. The following is from her book 'The World and I'. (George H. Doran Co., NY. 1918) The year following the Chicago Exposition and Congress of Religions, the East Indian Monk, Swami Vivekananda, came to New York and gave a course
Reminiscences of the Swami
of the Swami's early classes in NY: Those first classes!. How intensely interesting they were! Who that was privileged to attend them can ever forget them! The Swami dignified, yet simple, so gravely earnest, so eloquent, and the close ranks of students, forgetting all inconveniences, hanging
Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda
1. Calcutta, February 15, 1899 : My lecture on Kali came off on Monday. The Albert Hall was crammed. The Chairman spoke against Kali and me, and was very touching, when unfortunately a devotee got up and amidst tremendous excitement called him all sorts of names. I am sorry to tell you that I
Sister Devamata
One day, as I was walking up Madison Avenue, I saw in the window of the Hall of the Universal Brotherhood a modest sign saying: "Next Sunday at 3 p.m. Swami Vivekananda will speak here on `What is Vedanta?' and the following Sunday on `What a Yoga?' " I