Swami Vivekananda
Newspaper and periodical reports published during Swami Vivekananda's lifetime
The fundamental principle of the Hindoo religion is the absolute tolerance of all other religions, and it strikes me that the learned bishop has displayed a great deal of intolerance in advocating his own cause. He states that he inferred, when called upon to introduce the speaker, that nothin
Newspaper and periodical reports published during Swami Vivekananda's lifetime
"I cannot comply with the request of The News to work a miracle in proof of my religion," said Vive Kananda to a representative of this paper, after being shown The News editorial on the subject. "In the first place, I am no miracle worker, and in the second place the pure Hindoo religion I
Bishop Ninde and Kananda.
In The Free Press of Friday Bishop Ninde offers an explanation by way of apology for having been induced under what he seems to construe as false pretenses, to act as chairman and introduce the Brahmin Monk Kananda to a Unitarian church audience. It would now seem from the tone of his letter
Mysteries and Miracles
I read with no little surprise and disgust an editorial in the Evening News of February 14, headed, "Give us Some Miracles," said article being called forth on account of the appearance in Detroit of Swami Vive Kananda, the Brahmin monk, who edified and delighted, not only the clergy of all
GIVE US SOME MIRACLES.
It may sound vulgar, but it is not improper for Detroit to insist, now that it has gotten one of these wonderful East Indian mahatmas or priests, or whatever they are called, in its social grip, that he either "put up or shut up." During the past 10 or 15 years the people of Christian lands ha
New Research Findings by Carl Aronsson
I have recently discovered an unrecorded letter by Swami Vivekananda from his second visit to England which was sent to the Rev. Hugh R. Haweis, who was a delegate of the Anglican Church at the World Parliament of Religions and where he first met Vivekananda. The Rev was a very popular and well know
Letter to Mrs. Eric Hammond
C/o. Miss Babonan 49 Park Street, Calcutta January 3lst., 1898
Editor's Biographical Notes
The Swami's views of Hindu Avatars, Sages, Gods and Goddesses
Chatrapati Sivaji
One day it was Sivaji and the Marathas and the year's wandering as a Sanyasin , that won him home to Raigarh. "And to this day" said the Swami,(June,1898) "authority in India dreads the Sannyasin, lest he conceal beneath his yellow garb another Sivaji."
Shah Jahan
Swami Vivekananda on Shah Jahan, (who had the Taj Mahal built) " Ah! he was the glory of his line ! A feeling for, and discrimination of beauty that are unparalled in history. And an artist himself! I have seen a manuscript illuminated by him, which is one of the art-treasures of India
Raja Ram Mohun Roy
(Swami Vivekananda) "pointed out three things as the dominant notes of (Ram Mohun Roy) message: his acceptance of the Vedanta, his preaching of patriotism, and the love that embraced the Mussulman equally with the Hindu.
Giuseppe Mazzini
( Notes of some wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda by Sister Nivedita)