Voice of Vivekananda
By VivekaVani
One evening Sri Ramakrishna was seated with Totapuri near his sacred dhuni. Both of their minds were almost completely absorbed in nondual knowledge as they talked about God. The Atman, as if dwelling …
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Ramakrishna bhava Ganga It was 1935. Grand preparations were going on for Sri Ramakrishna’s Centenary Celebration. One day I went to visit the ‘Holy Mother’s house’, the Udbodhan, in Calcutta. …
By VivekaVani
Swami Mukteswarananda, a disciple of the Mother, was passing through a dry spell, which is also called the “dark night of the soul.” He even stopped visiting the Mother although he was living at …
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(Anecdote from the life of Swami Chinmayananda) In the early 1980s Pujya Gurudev announced that he would share that year’s Gurudakshina with all the centers of the West. At that time Pujya …
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Swami Arupananda narrated the following incident, which took place in Jayrambati: Arupananda: “Mother, shall I pass my whole life in this way—constructing houses, marketing, keeping accounts? What …
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Akshay Kumar Sen has been initiated by Sri Ramakrishna. He has obtained the gracious blessings from Mother and Swamiji. The Holy Mother had told Akshay, ‘There will be a little suffering towards the …