Ramakrishna and Vivekananda
Sri Ramakrishna and His Gospel Volume 3
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), the great disciple of sri Ramakrishna, was born in Kolkata. He was Nerendranath Dutta in his pre-monastic life. An Athletic youth with modern education, he came in contact with sri Ramakrishna,the saint of Dakhinswar and was transformed by his gentle touch into the great monk and preacher, who carried the message of ancient india to the western World. Four year after the Swami had left the shores of India as an unknown monk, he landed at Colombo in January 15, 1897. His countrymen had been eagerly awaiting his return to the motherland to give him a hearty welcome.
The Life Of Vivekananda And The Universal Gospel
In this volume, Romain Rolland, the great french savant and one of the finest examples of gallic grace in intellectual culture presents a fascinating and graphic account of Swami Vivekananda's life and message.
About his teachings he says: 'Vivekananda's words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!'
Sri Ramakrishna and His Gospel Volume 2
