Voice of Vivekananda
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[Excerpts from the book by Sister Nivedita] Note: In the following work only those extracts which present Swami Vivekananda’s ideas or direct quotations have been printed. Descriptions marking the …
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FIRST MEETING WITH MADAME EMMA CALVE (New Discoveries, Vol. 1, pp. 484-86.) [The story of the first meeting of Swami Vivekananda and Madame Emma Calvé, as told in Calvé's autobiography, My …
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This is Swami Vivekananda's free translation of verses from Bhartrihari's Sanskrit poem Vairâgya Shatakam. The Swami's translation is from Sister Nivedita's Unpublished Notes of Some …
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The EtherNotesLecture NotesMacrocosm and MicrocosmFootnotes to The Imitation of ChristThe Plague ManifestoOne Circle MoreFacsimile of One Circle MoreAn Untitled Poem on Shri RamakrishnaAn Unfinished …
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(New Discoveries, Vol. 3. p. 490. This undated poem is preserved in the archives of the Vedanta Centre, Cohasset, Massachusetts. Cf. "My Play is Done", Complete Works , VI.) From life to …
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(Complete Works (Bengali edition), VI, p. 256.) सामाख्याद्यैर्गीतिसुमधुरैर्मेघगम्भीरघोषैःयज्ञध्वानध्वनितगगननैर्ब्राह्मणैर्ज्ञातवेदैः।वेदान्ताख्यैः सुविहितमखोद्भिन्नमोहान्धकारैःस्तुतो गीतो य इह …
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