Swami Vivekananda in London

Swami Vivekananda in London PDF

Author: Mahendranath Datta

Publisher: Vivekananda Kendra

Published: 2014-01-12

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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This is a translation of Mahendrnath Datta’s Bengali book ‘Londoner Swami Vivekananda’. The english translation was by Swami Yogeshananda. This book is the fifth one among the series of books published as part of Swami Vivekananda Sardha Shati Samaroh. We hope this publication will inspire the reader to study Swami Vivekananda.

Letters of Swami Vivekananda

Letters of Swami Vivekananda PDF

Author: Swami Vivekananda

Publisher:

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9780874810936

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Excerpt: "Liberty is the first condition of growth. Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so must he have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing as long as he does not injure others."

Swami Vivekananda and Non-Hindu Traditions

Swami Vivekananda and Non-Hindu Traditions PDF

Author: Stephen E. Gregg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1317047435

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The Hindu thinker Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was and remains an important figure both within India, and in the West, where he was notable for preaching Vedanta. Scholarship surrounding Vivekananda is dominated by hagiography and his (mis)appropriation by the political Hindu Right. This work demonstrates that Vivekananda was no simplistic pluralist, as portrayed in hagiographical texts, nor narrow exclusivist, as portrayed by some modern Hindu nationalists, but a thoughtful, complex inclusivist. The book shows that Vivekananda formulated a hierarchical and inclusivistic framework of Hinduism, based upon his interpretations of a four-fold system of Yoga. It goes on to argue that Vivekananda understood his formulation of Vedanta to be universal, and applied it freely to non-Hindu traditions, and in so doing, demonstrates that Vivekananda was consistently critical of ‘low level’ spirituality, not only in non-Hindu traditions, but also within Hinduism. Demonstrating that Vivekananda is best understood within the context of ‘Advaitic primacy’, rather than ‘Hindu chauvinism’, this book will be of interest to scholars of Hinduism and South Asian religion and of South Asian diaspora communities and religious studies more generally.

Public Notice 3

Public Notice 3 PDF

Author: Jitish Kallat

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300171587

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The basis for Kallat’s installation is a landmark speech delivered by Swami Vivekananda at the Parliament, which was held in conjunction with the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in what is now the museum’s Fullerton Hall. The Parliament was the earliest attempt to create a global dialogue of religious faiths, and Vivekananda, eloquently addressing its 7,000 attendees, argued for an end of fanaticism and a respectful recognition of all traditions of belief through universal tolerance.

Para Bhakti or Supreme Devotion

Para Bhakti or Supreme Devotion PDF

Author: SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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Vivekananda was a man with a great spiritual presence and tremendous intellect who was a tireless teacher and writer. He wrote poems and hymns in Bengali, English and Sanskrit, some of which are sung daily in Vedanta centre's worldwide. He was ahead of his time in encouraging women and Westerners to not only practice Vedanta, but to be leaders. Two examples are Sara Ellen Waldo who recorded and collected Swami's talks at Thousand Island Park and Margaret Noble, later known as Sister Nvidia, who devoted her life not only to Vedanta but also to the education of Indian girls.Supreme Devotion, in which forms and symbols fall off. One who has reached that cannot belong to any sect, for all sects are in him. To what shall he belong? For all churches and temples are in him. Where is the church big enough for him? Such a man cannot bind himself down to certain limited forms. Where is the limit for unlimited love, with which he has become one? In all religions which take up this ideal of love, we find the struggle to express it. Although we understand what this love means and see that everything in this world of affections and attractions is a manifestation of that Infinite Love, the expression of which has been attempted by sages and saints of different nations, yet we find them using all the powers of language, transfiguring even the most carnal expression into the divine.