Swami Vivekananda
Why We Disagree 15 Sep 1893
I will tell you a little story. You have heard the eloquent speaker who has just finished say, "Let us cease from abusing each other," and he was very sorry that there should be always so much variance.
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At the World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago 11th September, 1893, Swami Vivekananda said the following few words and achieved an astonishing result: from obscurity to overnight fame came the opportunity to effect change upon the entire world. This may well be, literally, the most famous and hist
Ramakrishna - his life and sayings
[ The references in this Index correspond to the numbering of the Sayings in this volume .]
Ramakrishna - his life and sayings
300. The new-born calf looks very lively, blithe, and merry. It jumps and runs all day long, and only stops to suck the sweet milk from its darn. But no sooner is the rope placed round its neck than it begins to pine away gradually, and, far from being merry, wears a dejected and sorry appeara
Ramakrishna - his life and sayings
200. Creeds and sects matter nothing. Let every one perform with faith the devotions and practices of his creed. Faith is the only clue to get to God.
Ramakrishna - his life and sayings
100. A man who finds all the hairs of his body standing on end at the bare mention of S rî Hari's name, through sheer ecstasy, and who sheds tears of love on hearing the name of God, he has reached his last birth.
Ramakrishna - his life and sayings
1. Thou seest many stars at night in the sky, but findest them not when the sun rises. Canst thou say that there are no stars, then, in the heaven of day? So, O man, because thou beholdest not the Almighty in the days of thy ignorance, say not that there is no God.
Ramakrishna his life and sayings
His sayings or Logia were collected and written down by his pupils, in Bengâli; some were translated into Sanskrit
Ramakrishna - his life and sayings
Then follows the final conclusion that these two Selfs are one and the same, only reached by different methods. Man is man phenomenally, the world is world phenomenally, the gods of the world are gods phenomenally, but in full reality all are the Godhead, call it Âtman or Brahman, metamorphose
Ramakrishna - his life and sayings
We may try now another door for an entrance into the Vedânta-philosophy, which may help in bringing the Vedânta nearer to ourselves, or ourselves nearer to the Vedânta, so that it may be looked upon not simply as a strange and curious system, but as a system of thought with which we can sympathi
Ramakrishna - his life and sayings
If you ask, what then is real in all things and in every individual soul? the answer is, Brahman, the One without a Second, the One besides whom there is nothing; but this answer can be understood by those only who know Avidyâ, and by knowing it have destroyed it. Others believe that the world i
Ramakrishna - his life and sayings
If now we return to Râmak ri sh n a, I can assure Keshub's zealous advocate that I never looked upon Râmak ri sh n a as the originator of the Vedânta-philosophy. He was not a man possessed of a scholarlike knowledge of the ancient system of the Vedânta-philosophy, nor do I feel certain that even