Author: Swami Vivekananda
Publisher: Advaita Ashram
Year: 200*
Language: English
Pages: 572
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185301603
Description
Containing all his writings, reports of his lectures, interviews, class talks and replies to the addresses of welcome, letters-original and translated, etc.
Sister Nivedita writes in her masterly introduction: 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 unity.
Had he not lived, texts that today will carry the bread of life to thousands might have remained the obscure disputes of scholars. He taught with authority and not as one of the Pandits. For he himself had plunged to the depths of the realization which he preached, and he came back, like Ramanuja, only to tell its secrets to the pariah, the outcast, and the foreigner.
Contents
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
Swami Vivekananda
LECTURES
Addresses at the Parliament of Religions
The Secret of Work
The Ideal of Karma-Yoga
The First Steps of Bhakti
The Teacher of Spirituality
The Need of Symbols
The Aim of Raja Yoga
Hints on Practical Spirituality
The Vedanta Philosophy
At the Harvard University Discussion
Maya and Illusion
The Real and the Apparent Man
The Atman
Atman : Its Bondage and Freedom
The Ideal of a Universal Religion
First Public Lecture in the East
Reply to the Address at Ramnad
The Mission of the Vedanta
Vedanta and Its Application to Indian Life
The Work Before Us
The Vedanta
The Future of India
Reply to the Calcutta Address
the Sages of India
Christ, the Messenger
My Master
NOTES FROM LECTURES AND DISCOURSES
Lord Buddha
The Symbol Om (from Raja-Yoga)
Sannyasa : Its Idea and Practice
Thoughts on the Gita
INTERVIEWS
Indian's Mission
The Abroad and the problems at Home
On the Bounds of Hinduism
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
At the Belur Math
INSPIRED TALKS
CONVERSATIONS
WRITINGS
India: The Land of Religion
In Defence of Hinduism
An Appeal to His Countrymen (from Modern India)
Hinduism and Shri Ramakrishna (from Bhavvar Katha)
On the Upper Castes of India (from Memories of European Travels)
Finance and its Capital (From the East and the West)
LETTERS
POEMS
The Song of the Sannyasin
Kali the Mother
The Cup
Peace
A Song on Samadhi
To the Fourth of July
My Play is done
A Blessing
INDEX