Voice of Vivekananda
By VivekaVani
One morning at 9:00 a.m., a couple of days before his passing away, the Swami [Swami Ramakrishnananda] was lying down with closed eyes. His attendant was silently seated nearby. All of a sudden Swami …
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Swami Trigunatitananda was skeptical about the existence of ghosts; he had visited a number of haunted houses and found nothing to substantiate claims of ghostly inhabitants. This aroused in him a …
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The public festival of the Master’s birthday celebrations, which was usually attended by thousands, would normally be held on a Sunday. The previous night there was a torrential rain, and water …
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A MAGICIAN was showing his tricks before a king. Now and then he exclaimed: "Come confusion! Come delusion! O King, give me money! Give me clothes!" Suddenly his tongue turned upward and close to the …
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Swami Brahmananda during his last moments would intermittently talk, slip into meditation or would be blessed with the vision of Sri Ramakrishna. He opened his eyes and began to speak: ‘I am floating …
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This incident happened in the life of Swami Abhedananda: On 7 May 1915, during World War I, a British liner was destroyed by a German submarine in the Atlantic Ocean, near the Cork coast of Ireland. …
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