Voice of Vivekananda
By VivekaVani
M. was seated by his side. Sri Ramakrishna asked him by a sign to come nearer. The sight of his suffering was unbearable. In a very soft voice and with great difficulty he said to M.” “I have gone on …
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By VivekaVani
Mother, everyone says, ‘My watch alone is right.’ The Christians, the Brahmos, the Hindus, the Mussalmans, all say, “My religion alone is true.’ But, Mother, the fact is that nobody’s watch is right. …
By VivekaVani
Why doesn’t God free us from the world? Ah, He will free us when the disease is cured. He will liberate us from the world when we are through with the enjoyment of ‘woman and gold’. Once a man …
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By VivekaVani
Why has God made me lead this kind of life? (referring to his monastic life) Chaitanyadeva became a sannyasi so that all would salute him. Whoever salutes an Incarnation, even once, obtains …
By VivekaVani
The great conclusion is that Ramakrishna has no peer; nowhere else in the world exists that unprecedented perfection, that wonderful kindness for all that does not stop to justify itself, that intense …
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By VivekaVani
All doubts disappear when one sees God. It is one thing to hear of God, but quite a different thing to see Him. A man cannot have one hundred percent conviction through mere hearing. But if he beholds …