Swami Vivekananda
- Sister Nivedita
"The truths he preaches would have been as true, had he never been born. Nay more, they would have been equally authentic. The difference would have lain in their difficulty of access, in their want of modern clearness and incisiveness of statement, and in their loss of mutual coherence and un
Tributes to Swami Vivekananda by his brother disciples
A great yogi, a spiritual teacher, a religious leader, a writer, an orator and, above all, the most selfless worker for humanity –– that was Swami Vivekananda. I had the honor of living with this great Swami in India , in England , and in America . I lived and traveled with him day after day
H. Franklin Waltman
Below are excerpts from the diary of 23 year old Harry Franklin Waltman.... who produced a portrait of Swami Vivekananda...
Newspaper articles
Brooklyn has a new attraction - a woman who is a monk. She is French, about 50 years old, with short, gray hair, a broad masculine face end a large head. She is Swami Ahhayananda or "The Monk of Fearless Bliss." Her belief and teachings are the same as those of the Swami Vivekananda and the famous H
Not a Hindoo.
BY JAMES HENLE. N E. A. Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, May 22.—Is the human race about to abolish death? Can present-daymorta. Is obtain. immortal life? Most religious say not. Science says no. Common sense says no. Death can be abolished, asserts Swami Kripananda.
Sympathetic Current.
Dr Street was initiated by Swami Vivekananda as Swami Yogananda. From the evidence we have, Street did not appear to take it too seriously, and continued to do afterward what he had done before becoming a Swami- dabble in fortune- telling by using a crystal ball... This article appeared more than
VIVEKANANDA'S DEATH:
Was it a coincedence that Vivekananda's Mahasamadhi occurred on this date? As far as we know this fact has not been discussed in the biographies of Vivekananda: But Swami Vivekananda's death occurred a few hours after the aphelion in 1902 (an aphelion is the point on the orbit of the earth, or any o
Cedar Falls Gazette, Iowa
Hindoo Philosopher Dies in a Monastery Near Calcutta. Advices from Calcutta announce the death in a monastery near there of Swami Vivekananda, the Hindoo monk and philosopher, who preached himself into New York's exclusive society. Vivekananda's original mission in this country, was as a delegate
Newly discovered newspaper articles about Swami Vivekananda
This is an interesting obituary of Vivekananda, inasmuch as it refers to the "fame" he had as a result of being "lionized" by "society." It contradicts some of the opinions of the so-called "corrective" biographers of Vivekananda who like to write that Vivekananda was virtually unknown to the Americ
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.
The Times Democrat
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
Historical preservation and Vivekananda pilgrimage guide
Ridgely! During Swami Vivekananda's first and second visits to America he spent in all at least twelve weeks of rest and revitalization at that beautiful estate, speaking day and night of God and of things of the Spirit, transporting those around him. And now Ridgely will be