Vivekananda (quoted by Swami Saradananda) described a “vision” he had after meditation in his home during his college days: When I kept my mind still and devoid of all objects, there flowed in it a current of serene bliss. Under its influence, I felt a sort of intoxication for a long time even af
At one time my ideal was to drive a strong pair of horses; at another time I thought, if I could make a certain kind of sweetmeat, I should be perfectly happy; later I imagined that I should be entirely satisfied if I had a wife and children and plenty of money. Today I laugh at all these id
The Vindhya Range is a range of hills in central India, which geographically separates the Indian subcontinent into northern India (the Indo-Gangetic plain) and Southern India.
As a boy I had some white mice . They were kept in a little box in which there were little wheels, and when the mice tried to cross the wheels, the wheels turned and turned, and the mice never got anywhere. So it is with the world and our helping it.
B.E. stands for Bengali era which followed the Gregorian Calendar by 593 years, 3 months and 14 days.
The original manuscript of Nivedita's diary , since 1972, has been deposited in the Bangiya Sahitya Parisad Library, 243/1, A.P.C. Road , Calcutta : 700 006. Phone : 2350-3743.
Hinduism . Madras : Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1943. iv, 109 p. ; 17 cm. English.
"That wonderful Gita, Margot! Not one note of weakness or discouragement in it!”
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
Vivekananda's blessings - as recorded in various letters, lectures and elsewhere....
Makara Sankranti is still celebrated on the last day of the ninth month of Poush and is a harvest festival. It is a celebration of spring on the occasion of the 'ascent' of the sun to the north (Uttarayana). In Maharashtra , Karnataka as well as parts of Andhra, Makara Sankranti is a day of
Map of the Heavens, Planets, Astrological Chart, Horoscope Swami VIVEKANANDA , born January 12, 1863 at 6:33 AM in Calcutta (Inde)
"He is the Great God, calm, beautiful, and silent! and I am His great worshipper."
Sister Nivedita wrote "The existence of Krishna , then, like that of Christ, he often told us in the general way he doubted. Buddha and Mohammed alone, amongst religious teachers, had been fortunate enough to have 'enemies as well as friends,’ so that their historical careers were beyo
DEAR READER, if you wish to enjoy reading a few pages of my reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda, you must bear with me for a while till I have given you some idea about the sort of man I was before I met the Swami, the conceptions I had of religion, my education, and my nature in general. Unless
In the course of his wanderings, Vivekananda had got accustomed to eat chillies, which were often the only condiment he had with his food. I have seen him eating a handful of pungent, green chillies with evident relish.
Swami Ramakrishnananda arranged an introduction to the Swami of a young man who apparently asked the Swami for money... The Swami wrote back to Ramakrishnananda (Sashi) Feb 25, 1898. I received your letter of recommendation for the young man with the old story of "having nothing to eat, Your Honour"
He loved to tell the story of a Christian missionary who was sent to preach to the
Like Vivekananda's letters, many of his poems were edited. Let us compare the version of REQUISCAT IN PACE! as published in the first edition of Notes of Some Wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda (published under the watchful eye of Swami Saradanananda) and the version published in the Comple
Laura Glenn (Sister Devamata) wrote: "The design which has become the symbol of the Ramakrishna Mission everywhere came into being in the same casual way as did the 'Song of the Sannyasin.' It took shape in 1900 during Swami Vivekananda's later visit to America . At that time the Vedanta
The following is a partial list of books mentioned in various sources as those that Vivekananda read.
The following anecdote about Swami Vivekananda is as narrated by K. Sundarama Iyer in his reminiscences.
REGARDING THE SWAMI'S DEATH, JULY 4, 1902, AND HIS 1898 POEM "TO THE FOURTH OF JULY."
Swami Vivekananda wrote: "Those who think they have been helped by any thought of mine, ought to know that almost every word of it was published through the untiring and most unselfish exertions of Mr. Goodwin...a disciple of never-failing devotion, a worker who knew not what tiring was...."
You Western folk want action! You cannot yet perceive the poetry of every common little incident in life! What beauty could be greater than that of the story of the young mother coming to Buddha with her dead boy? Or the incident of the goats? You see the Great Renunciation w
There was a certain Yogi who used to practise meditation in a lonely part of the forest, on the banks of a river. There was a poor cowherd, a very ignorant man, who used to tend his herd in that forest. Every day he used to see this same Yogi meditating by the hour, practising austerities, l
This idea of complete self-sacrifice is illustrated in the following story: After the battle of Kurukshetra the five Pandava brothers performed a great sacrifice and made very large gifts to the poor. All people expressed amazement at the greatness and richness of the sacrifice, and said that
A certain Mohammedan was praying in a garden. They are very regular in their prayers. When the time comes, wherever they are they just begin, fall down on the ground and get up and fall down, and so on. One of them was in a garden when the call for prayer came, so he knelt there, prostrate on
There is a story of Hanuman, who was a great worshipper of Rama; just as the Christians worship Christ as he incarnation of God, so the Hindus worship many incarnations of God; according to them, God came nine times in India, and will come once more.
