According to Hindu tradition, the disciple must obey the guru without question. However, the influence of Western thinking did not allow Narendra to accept this; he was determined to test for himself …
Go Beyond This World – Swami Turiyananda
One of the students was psychic. One day Turiyananda found her practising automatic writing. Making her mind passive, she sat with a pencil in her hand, and automatic writing would begin. The hand …
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Vedanta is The Jewel Among Religions – Swami Turiyananda
After one lecture, a timid young woman told Turiyananda that she could not understand how the soul could be God and the world unreal. “It took me many years to realize this,” replied the swami, “but …
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Sri Ramakrishna saved Swami Turiyananda’s life in Ujjain
Later Swami Turiyananda said: ‘One night in Ujjain, I was sleeping under a tree. A storm came, and suddenly someone touched me. I got up and at once a branch fell on the spot where I had slept.’ Sri …
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Do Not Forget Him – Swami Turiyananda
Turiyananda remained in Kankhal for some months; then, in the latter part of 1910, he went to Belur Math. One morning Turiyananda was seated on the eastern veranda of the monastery, facing the Ganges. …
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Do Everything as Perfectly as You Can
In her memoirs, Ida Ansell described how Turiyananda taught practical Vedanta. She was entrusted with the duty of taking notes of the swami’s class talks. One time her pencil was dull, so she …
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