Jan 22, 2011 | CWSV Volume 4
From Translation: Poems of Volume 4 of Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (Rendered from a Bengali poem composed by Swami Vivekananda) Where darkness is interpreted as light, Where misery passes for happiness, Where disease is pretended to be health, Where the...
Jan 6, 2011 | About Ramana Maharshi, Memories and Notes on Guru Ramana
This Chapter is taken From The Book ”Guru Ramana – Memories and Notes” by S.S.Cohen The word Nirvikalpa came to connote, particularly in the minds of some Western students of yoga, the profoundest and most awful of mysteries, which none hazards to penetrate...
Dec 30, 2010 | CWSV Volume 4
From Lectures and Discourses of Volume 4 of Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (Delivered at the Shakespeare Club, Pasadena, California, February 3, 1900) The universe, according to the theory of the Hindus, is moving in cycles of wave forms. It rises, reaches its...
Dec 28, 2010 | CWSV Volume 4
From Lectures and Discourses of Volume 4 of Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (Delivered at the Shakespeare Club, Pasadena, California, February 1, 1900) The other epic about which I am going to speak to you this evening, is called the Mahâbhârata. It contains the...
Dec 13, 2010 | CWSV Volume 3
From Lectures from Colombo to Almora of Volume 3 of Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (Delivered at Lahore on the 9th November, 1897) There is a sound which comes to us like a distant echo in the midst of the roaring torrents of the Upanishads, at times rising in...