From Colombo to Almora: Being a Record of Swami Vivekananda's Return to India After His Mission to the West. Includes Reports of His Lectures and Replies to AddressesBrahmavadin Press, 1904 - 333 páginas |
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Advaita Advaitist Almora ancient Aryan Atman become believe Bengal blessed blood body born Brahmin bring Buddha Buddhists caste Chaitanya civilisation comes conquer customs degradation doctrine dualistic eternal everything evil existence faith Gita give glorious glory Gopis greatest Guru hand heart Hindu Hinduism holy human idea ideal India infinite Kali Yuga Karma knowledge Krishna land language lecture lives Lord Madras manifest marvellous Māyā mind modern Monist nation nature never Paramatman philosophy preach preacher principles Puranas pure purity quarrel race Raja Rāmānuja realisation reform religion religious renunciation Rishi sages Sankara Sannyasin Sanskrit Sattva scriptures sects Siva Smritis society soul spiritual Srutis stand strength Swami Swami Vivekananda talk teach tell temple things thought thousands tion to-day true truth understand universe unto Upanishads Vedanta Vedas weak West Western wonderful word worship yourselves Yuga
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Página 151 - I know where the shoe pinches. I have gained a little experience. You will understand Glta better with your biceps, your muscles a little stronger. You will understand the mighty genius and the mighty strength of Krishna better with a little of strong blood in you. You will understand the Upanishads better and the glory of the
Página 129 - nature ? That is where you are. So every improvement in India requires first of all an upheaval in religion. To flood India with socialistic or political ideas, first deluge the land with spiritual ideas ; that is the first thing to be done. The first work that demands our attention is that
Página 101 - weakness or strength, hear and know that behind the strong and the weak, behind the high and the low, behind every one, there is that Infinite Soul assuring the infinite possibility and the infinite capacity of all to become great and good. Let us proclaim to every
Página 154 - have the same God in me, as you have in you. And that is what we want, no privilege for any one, equal chances for every one ; let every one be taught the Divine within, and every one will work out his own salvation. Liberty is the first condition
Página 210 - is not a man-making education, it is merely and entirely a negative education. A negative education, or any training that is given to negation, is worse than death. The child is taken to school and the first thing he learns is that his father is a fool, second his
Página 102 - varan nibodhata—" Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached." Arise, awake ; awake from this hypnotism of weakness. None is really weak ; the soul is infinite, omnipotent, and omniscient. Stand up assert yourself, proclaim the God within you, do not deny.
Página 154 - you cannot get rid of that. Wherever you go there will be caste. But that does not mean that there will be these privileges. They will be knocked on the head. If you teach Vedanta to the fisherman, he will say, 1 am as good a man as you, I am a fisherman, you are a philosopher;
Página 74 - 700 years of degradation, when grown up men by hundreds have been discussing for years whether we should drink a glass of water with the right hand or the left, whether the hand should be washed three times or four times, whether five times we should
Página 6 - you who are students of the history of races already are aware also. The debt which the world owes to this our mother-land is immense. Taking country with country there is not one race on this earth to which the world owes so much as to the patient Hindu, the mild Hindu. "The mild Hindu
Página 146 - but will more weakness heal it, would you try to wash dirt with dirt ? Will sin cure sin, weakness cure weakness ? Strength, oh man, strength, say the Upanishads, stand up and be strong ; aye, it is the only literature in the world where you find