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Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda
Biographical

Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda

By Swami Vivekananda · January 1, 1900

My memories are simply of him as a guest in our home — of a great personality who is still vivid to me! His brilliant eyes, his charming voice with the lilt of a slight well-bred Irish brogue. His warm smile!

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Appendix

By Swami Vivekananda · January 1, 1900

Miss Josephine MacLeod is well known to the students of Swami Vivekananda's life. Swamiji used to call her 'Joe', and his disciples and admirers addressed her as 'Yum', 'Jaya' or "Tantine'.

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION

By Swami Vivekananda · January 1, 1900

There has been an encouraging and persistent demand recently from the student of the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Literature for a fresh edition of this book, which had been long out of print. We have taken this opportunity to include in the present edition some more 'Reminiscences' of Sister Christ

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Monday Evening, March 3, 1941

By Swami Vivekananda · January 1, 1900

In 1941 Mrs. Alice Hansbrough gave these valuable reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda in a series of informal interviews with Swami Ashokananda in San Francisco. They were recorded by Mr A T Clifton (later Swami Chidrupananda), who was present at the interviews. Marie Louise Burke used portions

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Chandrasekhar Chattopadhyay

By Swami Vivekananda · January 1, 1900

4July 1902 was a memorable day. Swami Vivekananda, a great prophet of modern India , passed away at about 9:00 pm while he was in meditation. The flame of his life-lamp, which brightened the spiritual world, suddenly blew out in the deep darkness of night. The next morning this sad news spre

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Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda by Goswami Brij Lal

By Swami Vivekananda · January 1, 1900

'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)
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(Reprinted from Vedanta Kesari, September 1972)

By Swami Vivekananda · January 1, 1900

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

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John Lincoln Blauss

By Swami Vivekananda · January 1, 1900

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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II

By Swami Vivekananda · January 1, 1900

THE LOSS OF SHRADDHA IN INDIA AND N EED OF ITS REVIVAL — MEN WE WANT — REAL SOCIAL REFORM