The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (Set of 9 Volumes)

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Introduction
OUR MASTER AND HIS MESSAGE

In the four volumes of the works of the Swami Vivekananda which are to compose the present edition, we have what is not only a gospel to the world at large, but also to its own children, the Charter of the Hindu Faith. What Hinduism needed, amidst the general disintegration of the modern era, was a rock where she could lie at anchor, an authoritative utterance in which she might recognize herself. And this was given to her, in these words and writings of the Swami Vivekananda.

For the first time in history, as has been said elsewhere, Hinduism itself forms here the subject of generalization of a Hindu mind of the highest order. For ages to come the Hindu man who would verify, the Hindu mother who would teach her children, what was the faith of their ancestors will turn to the pages of these books for assurance and light. Long after the English language has disappeared from India, the gift that has here been made, through that language, to the world, will remain and bear its fruit in the East and West alike. What Hinduism had needed, was the organizing and consolidating of its own idea. What the world had needed was a faith that had no fear of truth. Both these are found here. Nor could any greater proof have been given of the eternal vigor of the Sanatana Dharma, of the fact that India is as great in the present as ever in the past than this rise of the individual who, at the critical moment, gathers up and voices the communal consciousness.

That India should have found her own need satisfied only in carrying to the humanity outside her borders the bread of life is what might have been foreseen. Nor did it happen on this occasion for the first time. It was once before in sending out to the sister lands the message of a nation-making faith that India learned as a whole to understand the greatness of her own thought-a self- unification that gave birth to modem Hinduism itself. Never may we allow it to be forgotten that on Indian soil first was heard the command from a Teacher to His disciples, “Go ye out into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature!” It is the same thought, the same impulse of love, taking to itself a new shape, that is uttered by the lips of the Swami Vivekananda, when to a great gathering in the West he says, “If one religion be true, then all the others also must be true. Thus the Hindu faith is yours as much as mine.” And again, in amplification of the same idea: “We Hindus do not merely tolerate, we unite ourselves with every religion, praying in the mosque of the Mohammedan, worshipping before the fire of the Zoroastrian, and kneeling to the cross of the Christian. We know that all religions alike, from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, are but so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the Infinite. So we gather all these flowers, and, binding them together with the cord of love, make them into a wonderful bouquet of worship.” To the heart of this speaker, none was foreign or alien. For him, there existed only Humanity and Truth.

Of the Swami’s address before the Parliament of Religions, it may be said that when he began to speak it was of “the religious ideas of the Hindus”, but when he ended, Hinduism had been created. The moment was ripe with this potentiality. The vast audience that faced him represented exclusively the occidental mind but included some development of all that in this was most distinctive. Every nation in Europe has poured in its human contribution upon America, and notably upon Chicago, where the Parliament was held. Much of the best, as well as some of the worst, of modern effort and struggle, is at all times to be met with, within the frontiers of that Western Civic Queen, whose feet are upon the shores of Lake Michigan, as she sits and broods, with the light of the North in her eyes. There is very little in the modern consciousness, very little inherited from the past of Europe that does not hold some outpost in the city of Chicago. And while the teeming life and eager interests of that center may seem to some of us for the present largely a chaos, yet they are undoubtedly making for the revealing of some noble and slow-wrought ideal of human unity, when the days of their ripening shall be fully accomplished.

Such was the psychological area, such the sea of mind, young, tumultuous, overflowing with its own energy and self-assurance, yet inquisitive and alert withal, which confronted Vivekananda when he rose to speak. Behind him, on the contrary, lay an ocean, calm with long ages of spiritual development. Behind him lay a world that dated itself from the Vedas, and remembered itself in the Upanishads, a world to which Buddhism was almost modern; a world that was filled with religious systems of faiths and creeds; a quiet land, steeped in the sunlight of the tropics, the dust of whose roads had been trodden by the feet of the saints for ages upon ages. Behind him, in short, lay India, with her thousands of years of national development, in which she had sounded many things, proved many things, and realized almost all, save only her own perfect unanimity, from end to end of her great expanse of time and space, as to certain fundamental and essential truths, held by all her people in common.

These, then, were the two mind-floods, two immense rivers of thought, as it were, Eastern and modern, of which the yellow-clad wanderer on the platform of the Parliament of Religions formed for a moment the point of confluence. The formulation of the common bases of Hinduism was the inevitable result of the shock of their contact, in a personality, so impersonal. For it was no experience of his own that rose to the lips of the Swami Vivekananda there. He did not even take advantage of the occasion to tell the story of his Master. Instead of either of these, it was the religious consciousness of India that spoke through him, the message of his whole people, as determined by their whole past. And as he spoke, in the youth and noonday of the West, a nation, sleeping in the shadows of the darkened half of earth, on the far side of the Pacific, waited in spirit for the words that would be borne on the dawn that was traveling towards them, to reveal to them the secret of their own greatness and strength.

Others stood beside the Swami Vivekananda, on the same platform as he, as apostles of particular creeds and churches. But it was his glory that he came to preach a religion to which each of these was, in his own words, “only a traveling, a coming up, of different men, and women, through various conditions and circumstances to the same goal”. He stood there, as he declared, to tell of One who had said of them all, not that one or another was true, in this or that respect, or for this or that reason, but that “All these are threaded upon Me, as pearls upon a string. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power, raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.” To the Hindu, says Vivekananda, “Man is not travelling from error to truth, but climbing up from truth to truth, from truth that is lower to truth that is higher.” This, and the teaching of Mukti- the doctrine that “man is to become divine by realising the divine,” that religion is perfected in us only when it has led us to “Him who is the one life in a universe of death, Him who is the constant basis of an ever-changing world, that One who is the only soul, of which all souls are but delusive manifestations” -may be taken as the two great outstanding truths which, authenticated by the longest and most complex experience in human history, India proclaimed through him to the modem world of the West.

For India herself, the short address forms, as has been said, a brief Charter of Enfranchisement. Hinduism in its wholeness the speaker bases on the Vedas, but he spiritualizes our conception of the word, even while he utters it. To him, all that is true is Veda. “By the Vedas,” he says, “no books are meant. They mean the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times.” Incidentally, he discloses his conception of the Sanatana Dharma. “From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the lowest ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists, and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hindu’s religion.” To his mind, there could be no sect, no school, no sincere religious experience of the Indian people-however like an aberration it might seem- to the individual that might rightly be excluded from the embrace of Hinduism. And of this Indian Mother-Church, according to him, the distinctive doctrine is that of the Ishta Devata, the right of each soul to choose its own path and to seek God in its own way. No army, then, carries the banner of so wide an Empire as that of Hinduism, thus defined. For as her spiritual goal is the finding of God, even so is her spiritual rule the perfect freedom of every soul to be itself.

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PART I

CONTENTS

	INTRODUCTION	XI
1	ADDRESSES AT THE WORLD’S PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS, CHICAGO, 1893	1
2	KARMA YOGA	27
3	RAJA YOGA	117
4	LECTURES AND DISCOURSES
	SOUL, GOD, AND RELIGION	307
	THE HINDU RELIGION	319
	WHAT IS RELIGION?	323
	VEDIC RELIGIOUS IDEALS	334
	THE VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY	347
	REASON AND RELIGION	356
	VEDANTA AS A FACTOR IN CIVILISATION	373
	THE SPIRIT AND INFLUENCE OF VEDANTA	377
	STEPS OF HINDU PHILOSOPHIC THOUGHT	383
	STEPS TO REALISATION	395
	VEDANTA AND PRIVILEGE	407
	PRIVILEGE	420
	KRISHNA	427
	THE GITA I	435
	THE GITA II	447
	THE GITA III	454
	MOHAMMED	467
	BILVAMANGALA	471
	THE SOUL AND GOD	474
	BREATHING	487
	PRACTICAL RELIGION: BREATHING AND MEDITATION	497
	INDEX	505

 

PART II

 

Contents 

	WORK AND ITS SECRET	1
	THE POWERS OF THE MIND	10
	HINTS ON PRACTICAL SPIRITUALITY	24
	BHAKTI OR DEVOTION	38
I	JNANA-YOGA
	1. THE NECESSITY OF RELIGION	57
	2. THE REAL NATURE OF MAN	69
	3. MAYA AND ILLUSION	87
	4. MAYA AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPTION OF GOD	104
	5. MAYA AND FREEDOM	117
	6.THE ABSOLUTE AND MANIFESTATION	128
	7. GOD IN EVERYTHING	142
	8. REALISATION	153
	9. UNITY IN DIVERSITY	172
	10. THE FREEDOM OF THE SOUL	185
	11. THE COSMOS: THE MACROCOSM	199
	12. THE COSMOS: THE MICROCOSM	208
	13. IMMORTALITY	222
	14. THE ATMAN	234
	15. THE ATMAN: ITS BONDAGE AND FREEDOM	251
	16. THE REAL AND THE APPARENT MAN	257
II	PRACTICAL VEDANTA AND OTHER LECTURES
	PRACTICAL VEDANTA: PART I	285
	PRACTICAL VEDANTA: PART II	302
	PRACTICAL VEDANTA : PART III	320
	PRACTICAL VEDANTA : PART IV	333
	THE WAY TO THE REALISATION OF A UNIVERSAL RELIGION	351
	THE IDEAL OF A UNIVERSAL RELIGION	367
	THE OPEN SECRET	388
	THE WAY TO BLESSEDNESS	396
	YAJNAVALKYA AND MAITREYI	406
	SOUL, NATURE, AND GOD	413
	COSMOLOGY	422
	A STUDY OF THE SANKHYA PHILOSOPHY	432
	SANKHYA A D VEDANTA	443
	THE GOAL	452
III	REPORTS IN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS
	DIVINITY OF MAN	465
	SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON INDIA	468
	RELIGIOUS HARMONY	471
	FROM FAR OFF INDIA	474
	AN EVENING WITH OUR HINDU COUSINS	476
	THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF INDIA	479
	THE RELIGIONS OF INDIA	481
	SECTS AND DOCTRINES IN INDIA	483
	LESS DOCTRINE AND MORE BREAD	485
	THE RELIGION OF BUDDHA	487
	ALL RELIGIONS ARE GOOD	491
	THE HINDU VIEW OF LIFE	494
	IDEALS OF WOMANHOOD	499
	TRUE BUDDHISM	503
	INDIA’S GIFT TO THE WORLD	506
	CHILD WIDOWS OF INDIA	510
	SOME CUSTOMS OF THE HINDUS	512
	INDEX	516

 

PART III

 

Contents 

	LECTURES AND DISCOURSES
	UNITY THE GOAL OF RELIGION	1
	THE FREE SOUL	6
	ONE EXISTENCE APPEARING AS MANY	19
	BHAKTI-YOGA
	DEFINITION OF BHAKTI	31
	THE PHILOSOPHY OF ISHVARA	37
	SPIRITUAL REALISATION, THE AIM OF BHAKTI-YOGA	42
	THE NEED OF GURU	45
	QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ASPIRANT AND THE TEACHER	47
	INCARNATE TEACHERS AND INCARNATION	53
	THE MANTRA: OM: WORD AND WISDOM	56
	WORSHIP OF SUBSTITUTES AND IMAGES	59
	THE CHOSEN IDEAL	62
	THE METHOD AND THE MEANS	64
	PARA-BHAKTI OR SUPREME DEVOTION
	THE PREPARATORY RENUNCIATION	70
	THE BHAKTA’S RENUNCIATION RESULTS FROM LOVE	73
	THE NATURALNESS OF BHAKTI-YOGA AND ITS CENTRAL SECRET	77
	THE FORMS OF LOVE-MANIFESTATION	79
	UNIVERSAL LOVE AND HOW IT LEADS TO SELFSURRENDER	81
	THE HIGHER KNOWLEDGE AND THE HIGHER LOVE ARE ONE TO THE TRUE LOVER	85
	THE TRIANGLE OF LOVE	86
	THE GOD OF LOVE IS HIS OWN PROOF	91
	HUMAN REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DIVINE IDEAL OF LOVE	93
	CONCLUSION	99
	LECTURES FROM COLOMBO TO ALMORA
	FIRST PUBLIC LECTURE IN THE EAST (COLOMBO)	103
	VEDANTISM	116
	REPLY TO THE ADDRESS OF WELCOME AT PAMBAN	136
	ADDRESS AT THE RAMESWARAM TEMPLE ON REAL WORSHIP	141
	REPLY TO THE ADDRESS. OF WELCOME AT RAMNAD	144
	REPLY TO THE ADDRESS OF WELCOME AT PARA MAKUDI	155
	REPLY TO THE ADDRESS OF WELCOME AT SHlVAGANGA AND MANAMADURA	163
	REPLY TO THE ADDRESS OF WELCOME AT MADURA	169
	THE MISSION OF THE VEDANTA	176
	REPLY TO THE ADDRESS OF WELCOME AT MADRAS	200
	MY PLAN OF CAMPAIGN	207
	VEDANTA IN ITS APPLICATION TO INDIAN LIFE	228
	THE SAGES OF INDIA	248
	THE WORK BEFORE US	269
	THE FUTURE OF INDIA	285
	ON CHARITY	305
	ADDRESS OF WELCOME PRESENTED AT CALCUTTA AND REPLY	306
	THE VEDANTA IN ALL ITS PHASES	322
	ADDRESS OF WELCOME AT ALMORA AND REPLY	350
	VEDIC TEACHING IN THEORY AND PRACTICE	355
	BHAKTI	357
	THE COMMON BASES OF HINDUISM	366
	BHAKTI	385
	THE VEDANTA	393
	VEDANTISM	434
	THE INFLUENCE OF INDIAN SPIRITUAL THOUGHT IN ENGLAND	440
	SANNYASA: ITS IDEAL AND PRACTICE	446
	WHAT HAVE I LEARNT?	449
	THE RELIGION WE ARE BORN IN	454
	REPORTS IN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS
	INDIA: HER RELIGION AND CUSTOMS	465
	HINDUS AT THE FAIR	470
	AT THE PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS	473
	PERSONAL TRAITS	476
	REINCARNATION	478
	HINDU CIVILISATION	480
	AN INTERESTING LECTURE	481
	THE HINDOO RELIGION	481
	THE HINDOO MONK	484
	PLEA FOR TOLERANCE	486
	MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN INDIA	488
	HINDOO PHILOSOPHY	492
	MIRACLES	495
	THE DIVINITY OF MAN	496
	THE LOVE OF GOD	503
	THE WOMEN OF INDIA	505
	BUDDHISTIC INDIA	511
	INDEX	539

 

PART IV

 

Contents 

I	ADDRESSES ON BHAKTI-YOGA
	THE PREPARATION	3
	THE FIRST STEPS	12
	THE TEACHER OF SPIRITUALITY	21
	THE NEED OF SYMBOLS	33
	THE CHIEF SYMBOLS	40
	THE ISHTA	51
II	LECTURES AND DISCOURSES
	THE RAMAYANA	63
	THE MAHABHARATA	77
	THOUGHTS ON THE GITA	100
	THE STORY OF JADA BHARATA	109
	THE STORY OF PRAHLADA	113
	THE GREAT TEACHERS OF THE WORLD	118
	ON LORD BUDDHA	132
	CHRIST, THE MESSENGER	135
	MY MASTER	150
	INDIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT	183
	THE BASIS FOR PSYCHIC OR SPIRITUAL RESEARCH	187
	ON ART IN INDIA	191
	IS INDIA A BENIGHTED COUNTRY?	193
	THE CLAIMS OF RELIGION	198
	CONCENTRATION	212
	MEDITATION	221
	THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION	231
III	WRITINGS: PROSE
	IS THE SOUL IMMORTAL?	245
	REINCARNATION	249
	ON DR. PAUL DEUSSEN	264
	ON PROFESSOR MAX MULLER	270
	SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF PAVHARI BABA	275
	ARYANS AND TAMILIANS	288
	THE SOCIAL CONFERENCE ADDRESS	295
	INDIA’S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD	300
	STRAY REMARKS ON THEOSOPHY	309
	REPLY TO THE ADDRESS OF THE MAHARAJA OF KHETRI	312
	REPLY TO THE MADRAS ADDRESS	323
	A MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY TO A FRIEND	345
	WHAT WE BELIEVE IN	347
	OUR DUTY TO THE MASSES	352
	REPLY TO THE CALCUTTA ADDRESS	356
	TO MY BRAVE BOYS	358
	A PLAN OF WORK FOR INDIA	362
	FUNDAMENTALS OF RELIGION	366
IV	WRITINGS: POEMS
	KALI THE MOTHER	377
	ANGLES UNAWARES	379
	TO THE AWAKENED INDIA	382
	REQUIESCAT IN PACE	384
	HOLD ON YET A WHILE, BRAVEHEART	385
	NIRVANASHATKAM, OR SIX STANZAS ON NIRVANA	387
	THE SONG OF THE SANNYASIN	389
	PEACE	392
V	TRANSLATION OF WRITINGS: PROSE
	THE PROBLEM OF MODERN INDIA AND ITS SOLUTION	397
	RAMAKRISHNA: HIS LIFE AND SAYINGS	407
	THE PARIS CONGRESS OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS	420
	KNOWLEDGE: ITS SOURCE AND ACQUIREMENT	428
	MODERN INDIA	436
	THE EDUCATION THAT INDIA NEEDS	478
	OUR PRESENT SOCIAL PROBLEMS	485
VI	TRANSLATION OF WRITINGS: POEMS
	TO A FRIEND	493
	THE HYMN OF CREATION	497
	THE HYMN OF SAMADHI	499
	A HYMN TO THE DIVINE MOTHER	500
	A HYMN TO SHIVA	503
	A HYMN TO THE DIVINITY OF SHRI RAMAKRISHNA	506
	“AND LET SHYAMA DANCE THERE”	509
	A SONG I SING TO THEE	514
	INDEX	520

 

PART V

 

Contents 

	EPISTLES-FIRST SERIES	3
	INTERVIEWS
	MIRACLES	183
	AN INDIAN YOGI IN LONDON	185
	INDIA’S MISSION	188
	INDIA AND ENGLAND	194
	INDIAN MISSIONARY’S MISSION TO ENGLAND	201
	WITH THE SWAMI VIVEKANANDA AT MADURA	204
	THE ABROAD AND THE PROBLEMS AT HOME	209
	THE MISSIONARY WORK OF THE FIRST HINDU SANNYASIN TO THE WEST AND HIS PLAN OF REGENERATION OF INDIA	218
	REAWAKENING OF HINDUISM ON A NATIONAL BASIS	225
	ON INDIAN WOMEN-THEIR PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE	228
	ON THE BOUNDS OF HINDUISM	233
	NOTES FROM LECTURES AND DISCOURSES
	ON KARMA-YOGA	239
	ON FANATICISM	242
	WORK IS WORSHIP	245
	WORK WITHOUT MOTIVE	246
	SADHANAS OR PREPARATIONS FOR HIGHER LIFE	249
	THE COSMOS AND THE SELF	255
	WHO IS A REAL GURU?	257
	ON ART	258
	ON LANGUAGE	259
	THE SANNYASIN	260
	THE SANNY ASIN AND THE HOUSEHOLDER	260
	THE EVILS OF ADHIKARIVADA	262
	ON BHAKTI-YOGA	265
	ISHVARA AND BRAHMAN	269
	ON JNANA-YOGA	270
	THE CAUSE OF ILLUSION	276
	EVOLUTION	277
	BUDDHISM AND VEDANTA	279
	ON THE VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY	281
	LAW AND FREEDOM	286
	THE GOAL AND METHODS OF REALISAT10N	291
	WORLD-WIDE UNITY	293
	THE AIM OF RAJA-YOGA	293
	QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
I	DISCUSSION AT THE GRADUATE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY	297
II	AT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB OF BOSTON	310
III	AT THE BROOKLYN ETHICAL SOCIETY, BROOKLYN	312
IV	SELECT1ONS FROM MATH DIARY	314
V	YOGA, VAlRAGYA, TAPASYA, LOVE	319
VI	IN ANSWER TO NIVEDITA	320
VII	GURU, AVATARA, YOGA, JAPA, SEVA	322
	CONVERSATIONS AND DIALOGUES
I	SHRI SURENDRA NATH DAS GUPTA	329
II-V	SHRI SURENDRA NATH SEN	332
VI-X	SHRI PRIYA NATH SINHA	349
XI-XV	FROM THE DIARY OF A DISCIPLE, SHRI SHARAT CHANDRA CHAKRAVARTY	379
	SAYINGS AND UTTERANCES	409
	WRITINGS: PROSE AND POEMS-Original and Translated
	REASON, FAITH, AND LOVE	425
	SIX SANSKRIT MOTTOES	427
	THE MESSAGE OF DIVINE WISDOM
	I BONDAGE; II THE LAW; III THE ABSOLUTE AND THE A’ITAINMENT OF FREEDOM	428
	THE BELUR MATH: AN APPEAL	434
	THE ADVAlTA ASHRAMA, HIMALAYAS	435
	THE RAMAKRISHNA HOME OF SERVICE, VARANASI: AN APPEAL	436
	WHO KNOWS HOW MOTHER PLAYS	439
	TO THE FOURTH OF JULY	439
	THE EAST AND THE WEST	441
	INDEX	539

 

PART VI

 

Contents 

I	LECTURES AND DISCOURSES
	THE METHODS AND PURPOSE OF RELIGION	3
	THE NATURE OF THE SOUL AND ITS GOAL	18
	THE IMPORTANCE OF PSYCHOLOGY	28
	NATURE AND MAN	33
	CONCENTRATION AND BREATHING	37
	INTRODUCTION TO JNANA-YOGA	41
	THE VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY AND CHRISTIANITY	46
	WORSHIPPER AND WORSHIPPED	49
	FORMAL WORSHIP	58
	DIVINE LOVE	68
II	NOTES OF CLASS TALKS AND LECTURES
	RELIGION AND SCIENCE	79
	RELIGION IS REALISATION	81
	RELIGION IS SELF-ABNEGATION	82
	UNSELFISH WORK IS TRUE RENUNCIATION	83
	FREEDOM OF THE SELF	84
	NOTES ON VEDANTA	85
	HINDU AND GREEK	87
	THOUGHTS ON THE VEDAS AND UPANISHADS	88
	ON RAJA-YOGA	91
	ON BHAKTI-YOGA	93
	ON JNANA-YOGA	95
	THE REALITY AND SHADOW	96
	HOW TO BECOME FREE	97
	SOUL AND GOD	99
	THE GOAL	100
	ON PROOF OF RELIGION	101
	THE DESIGN THEORY	104
	SPIRIT AND NATURE	106
	THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION	109
	FRAGMENTARY NOTES ON THE RAMAYANA	111
	NOTES TAKEN DOWN IN MADRAS, 1892-93	113
	CONCENTRATION	133
	THE POWER OF THE MIND	135
	LESSONS ON RAJA-YOGA	138
	LESSONS ON BHAKTI-YOGA	147
	MOTHER-WORSHIP	156
	NARADA-BHAKTI-SUTRAS	162
III	WRITINGS: PROSE AND POEMS
	HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF INDIA	169
	THE STORY OF THE BOY GOPALA	180
	MY PLAY IS DONE	187
	THE CUP	190
	A BENEDICTION	191
	THE HYMN OF CREATION	192
	ON THE SEA’S BOSOM	194
	HINDUISM AND SHRI RAMAKRISHNA	195
	THE BENGALI LANGUAGE	201
	MATTER FOR SERIOUS THOUGHT	205
	SHIVA’S DEMON	211
IV	EPISTLES
	SERIAL NOS. 1-168	215
V	CONVERSATIONS AND DIALOGUES
	1-12 (From the Diary of a Disciple)	447
	INDEX	519

 

PART VII

 

Contents 

I	INSPIRED TALKS	1
II	CONVERSATIONS AND DIAWGUES
	1-29 (From the Diary of a Disciple)	103
	30-31 (Shri Priyanath Sinha)	256
	32 (Mrs. Wright)	265
	33 (The Appeal-Avalanche)	269
	34 (The Detroit Free Press)	273
	35 (The Detroit Tribune)	277
III	TRANSLATIONS OF WRITINGS
	MEMOIRS OF EUROPEAN TRAVEL	285
IV	NOTES OF CLASS TALKS AND LECTURES
A	NOTES OF CLASS TALKS
	ON ART	393
	ON MUSIC	393
	ON MANTRA AND MANTRA-CHAITANYA	393
	ON CONCEPTIONS OF GODHEAD	394
	ON FOOD	395
	ON SANNYAS AND FAMILY LIFE	395
	ON QUESTIONING THE COMPETENCY OF THE GURU	396
	SRI RAMAKRISHNA: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS LIFE AND TEACHINGS	397
	ON SRI RAMAKRISHNA AND HIS VIEWS	398
	SRI RAMAKRISHNA: THE NATION’S IDEAL	400
B	NOTES OF LECTURES
	MERCENARIES IN RELIGION	401
	THE DESTINY OF MAN	404
	REINCARNATION	407
	COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY	410
	BUDDHISM, THE RELIGION OF THE LIGHT OF ASIA	413
	THE SCIENCE OF YOGA	414
V	EPISTLES	423
	INDEX	504

 

PART VIII

 

Contents 

	PREFACES	III
I	LECTURES AND DISCOURSES
	DISCOURSES ON JNANA-YOGA	3
	SIX LESSONS ON RAJA-YOGA	34
	WOMEN OF INDIA	50
	MY LIFE AND MISSION	69
	BUDDHA’S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD	87
	DISCIPLESHIP	101
	IS VEDANTA THE FUTURE RELIGION?	116
II	WRITINGS: PROSE AND POEMS
	PROSE
	STRUGGLE FOR EXPANSION	137
	THE BIRTH OF RELIGION	140
	FOUR PATHS OF YOGA	144
	CYCLIC REST AND CHANGE	148
	A PREFACE TO THE IMITATION OF CHRIST	151
	POEMS
	AN INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE	154
	THOU BLESSED DREAM	159
	LIGHT	160
	THE LIVING GOD	160
	TO AN EARLY VIOLET	161
	TO MY OWN SOUL	161
	THE DANCE OF SHIVA	162
	SHIVA IN ECSTASY	162
	TO SHRI KRISHNA	163
	A HYMN TO SHRI RAMAKRISHNA	163
	A HYMN TO SHRI RAMAKRISHNA	164
III	NO ONE TO BLAME	166
	NOTES OF CLASS TALKS AND LECTURES
	NOTES OF CLASS TALKS	171
	NOTES OF LECTURES	175
	MAN THE MAKER OF HIS DESTINY	175
	GOD: PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL	180
	THE DIVINE INCARNATION OR AVATARA	182
	PRANAYAMA	184
	WOMEN OF THE EAST	190
	CONGRESS OF RELIGIOUS UNITY	192
	THE LOVE OF GOD-I	193
	THE LOVE OF GOD-II	195
	INDIA	198
	HINDUS AND CHRISTIANS	203
	CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA	208
	THE RELIGION OF LOVE	214
	JNANA AND KARMA	219
	THE CLAIMS OF VEDANTA ON THE MODERN WORLD	224
	THE LAWS OF LIFE AND DEATH	228
	THE REALITY AND THE SHADOW	230
	WAY TO SALVATION	232
	THE PEOPLE OF INDIA	234
	I AM THAT I AM	237
	UNITY	243
	THE WORSHIP OF THE DIVINE MOTHER	245
	THE ESSENCE OF RELIGION	247
IV	SAYINGS AND UTTERANCES	253
V	EPISTLES – (Fourth Series)	273
	INDEX	509

 

PART IX

 

Contents 

	PREFACE	III
	ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ABBREVIATION	VI
I	EPISTLES
	SERIAL NOS. 1-238	3
II	LECTURES AND DISCOURSES
	THE WOMEN OF INDIA	207
	THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS JNANA	227
	BHAKTI-YOGA	244
	THE MUNDAKA UPANISHAD	258
	HISTORY OF THE ARYAN RACE	273
III	NOTES OF LECTURE AND CLASSES
	THE RELIGION OF INDIA	293
	CHRIST’S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD	297
	MOHAMMED’S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD	298
	CLASS LESSON IN MEDITATION	300
	THE GITA-I	301
	THE GITA-II	303
	THE GITA-III	305
	GITA CLASS	308
	REMARKS FROM VARIOUS LECTURES	309
IV	WRITINGS: PROSE AND POEMS
	THE ETHER	313
	NOTES	318
	LECTURE NOTES	320
	MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM	322
	FOOTNOTES TO THE IMITATION OF CHRIST	323
	THE PLAGUE MANIFESTO	330
	ONE CIRCLE MORE	333
	AN UNTITLED POEM ON SHRI RAMAKRISHNA	336
	AN UNFINISHED POEM	337
	BHARTRIHARI’S VERSES ON RENUNCIATION	338
V	CONVERSATIONS AND INTERVIEWS
	FIRST MEETING WITH MADAME EMMA CALVE	351
	FIRST MEETING WITH JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER	352
	A DUSKY PHILOSOPHER FROM INDIA	354
	WE ARE HYPNOTIZED INTO WEAKNESS	358
	MARRIAGE	359
	LINE OF DEMARCATION	359
	GOD IS	360
	RENUNCIATION	360
	SHRI RAMAKRISHNA’S DISCIPLE	360
	THE MASTER’S DIVINE INCARNATION	361
	A PRIVATE ADMISSION	361
	A GREETING	361
	“THIS WORLD IS A CIRCUS RING”	361
	ON KALI	362
	TRAINING UNDER SHRI RAMAKRISHNA	362
VI	NOTES OF SOME WANDERINGS WITH THE SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
	FOREWORD	367
	CHAPTER (i): THE HOUSE ON THE GANGES	370
	CHAPTER (ii): AT NAINITAL AND ALMORA	375
	CHAPTER (iii): MORNING TALKS AT ALMORA	379
	CHAPTER (iv): ON THE WAY TO KATHGODAM	393
	CHAPTER (v): ON THE WAY TO BARAMULLA	396
	CHAPTER (vi): THE VALE OF KASHMIR	402
	CHAPTER (vii): LIFE AT SRINAGAR	405
	CHAPTER (viii): THE TEMPLE OF PANDRENTHAN	412
	CHAPTER (ix): WALKS AND TALKS BESIDE THE JHELUM	420
	CHAPTER (x): THE SHRINE OF AMARNATH	427
	CHAPTER (xi): AT SRINAGAR ON THE RETURN JOURNEY	432
	CHAPTER (xii): THE CAMP UNDER THE CHENNAARS	435
	CONCLUDING WORD OF THE EDITOR	440
VII	SAYING AND UTTERANCES
VIII	NEWSPAPER REPORTS
	PART A: AMERICAN NEWSPAPER REPORTS
	RESPONSE TO WELCOME	471
	PARLOR TALK	473
	RELIGIONS OF INDIA	473
	ALL RELIGIONS ARE TRUE	476
	A MESSAGE FROM INDIA	478
	REINCARNATION	479
	AN INTELLECTUAL FEAST	481
	A PRAYER MEETING	482
	ON AMERICAN WOMAN	483
	ON THE BRAHMO SAMAJ	483
	A WITTY HINDU	484
	THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF INDIA	485
	HINDU PHILOSOPHY	487
	A GOD every day	489
	VIVE KANANDA LEAVES	490
	CULTURE AT HOME	490
	KANNADA, THE PAGAN	491
	AS THE WAVE FOLLOWS WAVE	499
	WAYSIDE STORIES	500
	A HINDOO MONK	501
	KANNADA ARRIVES	501
	THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF INDIA	501
	A LECTURE ON “INDIA AND HINDUISM”	504
	AT SMITH COLLEGE, NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS	505
	A LECTURE ON INDIA AND REINCARNATION	505
	LECTURE BY HINDOO MONK	506
	THE BRAHMAN MONK	509
	SWAMI VIVEKANANDA	512
	NIRVANASHATKAM	513
	THE NONSENSE OF NATIONS	514
	A HIGH PRIEST OF INDIA	515
	PRIST SWAMI IN TOWN	516
	A WISE MAN AMONG US	518
	LOVE RELIGION’S ESSENCE	519
	THE HINDOO OPTIMISTIC	523
	VIVEKANANDA’S LECTURE	524
	LET INDIA ALONE	524
	ABOU BEN ADHEM’S IDEAL	525
	THE DOCTRINE OF THE SWAMI	527
	“UNIVERSAL RELIGION”	528
	VIVEKANANDA’S PHILOSOPHY	531
	HEARD SWAMI TALK	532
	PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM	533
	OUT OF THE EAST	535
	UNIVERSAL RELIGION IS IMPOSSIBLE	537
	FOR UNIVERSAL RELIGION	537
	SWAMI VIVEKANANDA	543
	HINDU PHILOSOPHY	546
	CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSE	547
	TOLD ABOUT INDIA	549
	THE RELIGION LEGENDS OF INDIA	551
	THE SCIENCE OF YOGA	552
	AT THE LOS ANGELES HOME	552
	HINDOO MONK LECTURES	554
	VEDANTISM, AND WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT	554
	TRUE RELIGION	556
	PART B: EUROPEAN NEWSPAPER REPORTS
	SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON LOVE	559
	AN INDIAN ASCETIC	562
	NATIVE INDIAN LECTURER AT PRINCES’ HALL	563
	THE CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH	564
	AN UNIVERSAL RELIGION	565
	EDUCATION	566
	THE VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY	566
	AN OCTOBER CLASS REVIEW	568
	PART C: INDIAN NEWSPAPER REPORTS
	A BENGALI SADHU	570
	THE PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS	574
	PARLIAMENT OF RELGIONS IN CHICAGO	575
	ON CHRISTIAN CONVERSTION	576
	THE CENTRAL IDEA OF THE VEDAS	577
	ON THE SEA-VOYAGE MOVEMENT	577
	“BUDDHISM, THE FULFILMENT OF HINDUISM”	580
	INDIAN PHILOSOPHY AND WESTERN SOCIETY	580
	SWAMI VIVEKANANDA IN AMERICA	581
	ON EDUCATION	582
	SWAMI VIVEKANANDA IN ENGLAND	583
	ON THE SWISS ALPS	586
	“THE IDEAL OF UNIVERSAL RELIGION”	587
	THE BANQUET FOR RANJIT SINJHI	589
	THE MAJLIS IN CAMBRIDGE	590
	VIVEKANANDA IN THE WEST	591
	BHAKTI	592
	OUR MISSION IN AMERICA	592
	SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON EDUCATION AT BELUR	593
	HINDU WIDOWS	595
	APPENDIX 1: CHRONOLOGICAL INDEC TO LETTERS	597
	APPENDIX 2: ADDRESSEE-WISE INDEX TO LETTERS	622
	APPENDIX 3: ADDRESSEE-WISE NUMBER OF LETTERS	629
	APPENDIX 4: INDEX TO SOURCES OF LETTERS	633
	GLOSSARY	643
	INDEX	649