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men — men, mind you, and not brutes. How many men — unselfish and thorough- going men — is Madras ready to supply, who will stru ...

In the meantime, the purse that the Swami had carried from India was dwindling; for things were much more expensive in America t ...

The train bearing Vivekananda to Chicago arrived late in the evening, and he had mislaid, unfortunately, the address of the comm ...

Dr. Barrows, in his History of the Parliament of Religions, writes: Since faith in a Divine Power to whom men believe they owe s ...

Dharmapala, representing the Ceylon Buddhists; Gandhi, representing the Jains; Chakravarti and Annie Besant of the Theosophical ...

spoken about God, who, as the ultimate goal of all faiths, is their inmost essence. And he had learnt that truth at the feet of ...

The Parliament of Religions offered Swami Vivekananda the long desired opportunity to present before the Western world the etern ...

country. The New York Herald said: 'He is undoubtedly the greatest figure in the Parliament of Religions. After hearing him we f ...

India. Further, he thought that through a lecture bureau he could effectively broadcast his ideas all over the American continen ...

enjoyment as its goal, must die sooner or later. If you want to live, go back to Christ. You are not Christians. No, as a nation ...

from the two basic vows of the monastic life, namely, chastity and poverty, and that as regards other things, he was trying to a ...

history. The pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic in the 'Mayflower' and landed on the barren cost of Cape Cod in November 1620, we ...

The old and new continents had not been altogether strangers. Columbus had set out to find the short route to India, known far a ...

I inhale great draughts of space; The east and the west are mine; and the north and the south are mine. I am larger, better than ...

spiritual heritage. In the midst of her struggle for existence she had preserved her spiritual sensitivity. But in the wake of t ...

VEDANTA IN AMERICA After the meetings of the Parliament of Religions were concluded, Swami Vivekananda, as already noted, under ...

I am!' Then there were the leaders of the cranky, selfish, and fraudulent organizations, who tried to induce the Swami to embrac ...

know why. I am wearied of lecturing and all that nonsense. This mixing with hundreds of human animals, male and female, has dist ...

American women! A hundred lives would not be sufficient to pay my deep debt of gratitude to you! Last year I came to this countr ...

caste-system! 'India's doom was sealed,' he wrote, 'the very day they invented the word mlechcha and stopped from communion with ...