Place of Vedanta in Indian Philosophy Many of you have read Max Müller's celebrated book, Three Lectures on the Vedanta Philosophy, and some of you may, perhaps, have read, in German, …
Immortality – Swami Vivekananda
Reincarnation and Human Freedom What question has been asked a greater number of times, what idea has led men more to search the universe for an answer, what question is nearer and dearer to the …
The Cosmos: The Microcosm – Swami Vivekananda
How Perception Takes Place The human mind naturally wants to get outside, to peer out of the body, as it were, through the channels of the organs. The eye must see, the ear must hear, the senses …
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The Cosmos: The Macrocosm – Swami Vivekananda
The Cyclic Process of Nature The flowers that we see all around us are beautiful, beautiful is the rising of the morning sun, beautiful are the variegated hues of nature. The whole universe is …
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The Freedom of the Soul – Swami Vivekananda
Evolution of Vedantic Literature and Thought The Katha Upanishad, which we have been studying, was written much later than that to which we now turn — the Chhândogya. The language is more modern, …
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God in Everything – Swami Vivekananda
True Meaning of Renunciation We have seen how the greater portion of our life must of necessity be filled with evils, however we may resist, and that this mass of evil is practically almost …
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