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The Life of the Swami Vivekananda by His Eastern and Western Disciples the Advaita Ashrama Himalayas the Semi-Centenary Birthday Memorial Edition

1912

In the beginning it was planned to incorporate a bigraphical sketch in the last volume of the Mayavati Memorial Edition of The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda"; but both by reason of the supreme import of the Swami's life to the world and the vast collection of biographical facts of the most interesting nature and of far-reaching significance gathered during the last seven years this [...] It is the history of the Soul's own Revelation beautifully harmonising the dualistic vision of the Lover and his God the monistic vision of the Self realised and the consciousness of the Divinity of Man. [...] Sri Ramakrishna the Teacher Vivekananda the Preacher —Sri Ramakrishna the Man of Insight Vivekananda the Prophet of that Insight—these two were as one ; through them both shines the effulgence of the Spirit and the life of the one is incomplete without the life of the other. [...] Though the utterances of Sri Ramakrishna are mainly those of the Lover for the Lord still when it is remembered that it was he who gave his chief disciple the spirit and the consciousness of the Advaita one realises the supreme pupose of the Master that the future message of the Swami was to be that of the Advaita Vedanta wherein all sense of duality and distinction is swallowed up in the pe [...] And though the humanity of the wife or of the mother or of the husband or of the father may long for the absent one still does the soul know All is well " and the bonds of the rlationship are knit closer because one of the circle has seen God.
philosophy religion
Pages
459
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142623
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii unknown view
Preface
ix-xvii unknown view
Introduction
xvii-xxvii unknown view
I Even with the Generation Ancestral
1-7 unknown view
II The Triumph of Renunciation
8-13 unknown view
III The House and Home of the Lordly Duttas a Princely Father
14-20 unknown view
IV The Dream of Bhuvaneswari Mata
21-27 unknown view
V The Birth and Name of the Master
28-33 unknown view
VI The Period of Childhood
34-39 unknown view
VII The Choice of Gods
40-45 unknown view
VIII In the Deeps of Meditation
46-52 unknown view
IX The Vision of the Luminous Figure
53-58 unknown view
X Dedicated to Saraswati
59-64 unknown view
XI Play Days : an Accident
65-70 unknown view
XII Some Characteristics : a Prophecy
71-78 unknown view
XIII Other Days and an Hour of Trial
79-85 unknown view
XIV Parental Guidance—a Mother
86-92 unknown view
XV Furtber Glimpses of Boyhood
93-101 unknown view
XVI Collegiate Days
102-110 unknown view
XVII The Drift of Tendency : a Death
111-116 unknown view
XVIII Struggles and Hardships
117-123 unknown view
XIX The Transitional Period
124-131 unknown view
XX The wonder of the Lord’s Song
132-138 unknown view
XXI The Vision of the Exalted Life
139-146 unknown view
XXII The Dawn of the Intellectual Life
147-154 unknown view
XXIII The Tempest of Thought
155-163 unknown view
XXIV In Various Moods
164-171 unknown view
XXV A Fellow-student’s Reminiscellces
172-177 unknown view
XXVI The Man in the Making
178-186 unknown view
XXVII The Coming of the Light
187-196 unknown view
XXVIII The Brahmo Samaj
197-207 unknown view
XIX “Mahasaya Have You Seen God ?”
208-215 unknown view
XXX Ideals in Hinduism
216-226 unknown view
XXXI The Mystical Consciousness
227-238 unknown view
XXXII Ramakrishna—Kali—Brahman
239-247 unknown view
XXXIII The Dakshineswar Kali—Barhi
248-253 unknown view
XXXIV At the Touch of the Master
254-263 unknown view
XXXV The Disciple’s Meditation
264-271 unknown view
XXXVI As Others Saw the Master
272-281 unknown view
XXXVII The Son of His Mother
282-288 unknown view
XXXVIII Guru and Disciple
289-296 unknown view
XXXIX The Monastic Consciousness : Renunciation—Purity
297-303 unknown view
XL Days of Ecstasy at Dakshineswar
304-310 unknown view
XLI The Method of the Master’s Teaching
311-318 unknown view
XLII Initiation into Advaita Vedanta
319-327 unknown view
XLIII On the Loom of Discipleship
328-339 unknown view
XLIV In the Weaving of the Web
340-345 unknown view
XLV Glimpses of Personality
346-354 unknown view
XLVI As the Master Saw Norendra
355-362 unknown view
XLVII The Greatness of the Master
363-370 unknown view
XLVIII Towards the Goal
371-377 unknown view
XLIX The Great Understanding
378-384 unknown view
L In the Group of Disciples
385-392 unknown view
LI In the Garden-House at Cossipur
393-399 unknown view
LII At Buddha-Gaya and Ghazipur
400-407 unknown view
LIII In the Nirvikalpa Samadhi
408-422 unknown view
LIV Nirvana
423-432 unknown view

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