Swami Vivekananda
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.
Letters Of Swami Vivekananda
Letters are the reflection of one's mind. We can imagine the magnetic effect the letters of a dynamic Personality and saints like Swami Vivekananda had open the lives of those to whome they were addressed. His letters contain many passages, a single one of which is sufficient to bring about a great revolution and complete transformation in one's life.
In this volume an attempt has been made to bring together all the essential letters of Swamiji, while less important ones, not dealing with topics of general interest have been omitted.
Selection from the Complete Works of swami Vivekananda
The published writings and speeches of Swami Vivekananda cover more than four thousand five hundred pages. Many do not have an access to all his writings and many others have not the time or patience to go through them all.
Though it is a difficult task to produce a representative selection out of the Swami's varied writings and speeches, this volume is placed before the public with the hope that this will inspire the readers to study Swamiji more thoroughly.
Swami Vivekananda in Chicago
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!'
Vedanta
This volume presents in a clear and concise form the tents of a religion, the scriptures of which have evolved over the course of five thousand years. Vivekananda once said, ''I have a message to the West, as Buddha had a message to the east.'' And the message was Vedanta. As Christopher Isherwood says in his foreword:'' It must be remembered that much of this material was first spoken to audiences - sometimes extemporaneously, without even a rough draft of what Vivekananda wished to say. In such cases, it was taken down in shorthand ... Thus we experience the freshness of the Swami's live speech. Vivekananda's living presence often becomes powerfully evident behind his words."