This e-book comprises all nine volumes of the works of the Swami Vivekananda. The introduction of this compilation, called Our Master and His Message, was published five years after Swamiji's death and it says, 'What Hinduism had needed was the organizing and consolidating of its own idea, a rock where she could lie at anchor, and an authoritative utterance in which she might recognize herself. What the world had needed was a faith that had no fear of truth. And this was given to her, in these words and writings of the.' These works of Vivekananda constitute most of what the Swami taught us between Sept. 19, 1893, and July 4, 1902—his last day on earth.

This ebook comprises an address before the graduate philosophical society of Harvard University, March 25, 1896, by the Swami, with an introduction by, D.D., LL.D. Published in 1901 by the Vedanta Society in New York.

Swami Vivekananda - A Biography by Swami Nikhilananda PREFACE Swami Vivekananda's inspiring personality was well known both in India and in America during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the.

This scan is from the Harvard College Library and digitized by Google. Everett in his introduction writes, 'Vivekananda has created a high degree of interest in himself and his work. There are indeed few departments of study more attractive than the Hindu thought. Install microsoft office for another user on mac mac. It is a rare pleasure to see a form of belief that to most seems so far away and unreal as the Vedanta system, represented by an actually living and extremely intelligent believer. The reality of the One is the truth which the East may well teach us, and we owe a debt of gratitude to Vivekananda that he taught this lesson so effectively.'

Contents • • • • • • • Background [ ] Vivekananda went to the West for the second time in 1899. At this time his health was declining and ailments such as asthma, diabetes and chronic insomnia restricted his activities. During this visit Vivekananda gave few remarkable lectures in America and England. In these lectures Vivekananda covered a wide range of subjects from Indian history, Hindu mythological characters to human mind. The book My Master was compiled from two lectures delivered by Vivekananda in New York and England in 1901.

Synopsis [ ] In the lectures (therefore in the book) Vivekananda discussed Ramakrishna's biography. But, Vivekananda was well aware that his listeners were those Western people who had detailed idea on neither Ramakrishna nor India's religious and spiritual history and inheritance. That's why before entering the main topic of discussion, i.e. The life of Ramakrishna, he narrated the religious lives and religious ideals of India in details. He tried to show how the lives of Westerners and Indians were different, under which circumstances reform movement began in Indian religions and Ramakrishna was born. .if there has ever been a word of truth, a word of spirituality that I have spoken anywhere in the world, I owe it to my Master; only the mistakes are mine. Swami Vivekananda in the book My Master (1901) Vivekananda divided the life of Ramakrishna in two parts.

He told, Ramakrishna spent the first part of his life in acquiring spiritual knowledge and the second part of his life, the remaining years, in distributing it for the welfare of the people. Vivekananda discussed on different aspects of Ramakrishna's character.