Voice of Vivekananda
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(Translated from Bengali ) By the word "Shastras" the Vedas without beginning or end are meant. In matters of religious duty the Vedas are the only capable authority. The Puranas and …
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(Swami Vivekananda composed this poem in Bengali during his return from his second trip to the West. At the time of writing it, he was probably crossing the eastern Mediterranean.) In …
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(A translation of the Nâsadiya-Sukta, Rig-Veda, X. 129.) Existence was not then, nor non-existence,The world was not, the sky beyond was neither.What covered the mist? Of whom was that?What …
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(Written to Sister Nivedita) The mother's heart, the hero's will,The sweetness of the southern breeze,The sacred charm and strength that dwellOn Aryan altars, flaming, free;All these be yours, and …
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This is your cup — the cup assigned to you from the beginning.Nay, My child, I know how …
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(Written in the Spring of 1895 in New York) Ever rising, ever falling with the waves of time, still rolling on I goFrom fleeting …
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