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since. He leaves us soon and perhaps we shall never see him again, but he will leave an ineffaceable impress on our hearts that ...

end. He was much exhausted from the years of overwork, and it was even then to be seen that he was not long for this world. I tr ...

the most scientific and practical psychology — and all this must be put into such a form that a child may grasp it. That is my l ...

He loved to tell the story of a Christian missionary who was sent to preach to the cannibals. The new arrival proceeded to the c ...

losing their own dignity, and one of them was Swami Vivekananda. Sister Nivedita described him aptly as a Plato in thought and a ...

It was Ramakrishna who brought him in contact with Max Müller, the great German Sanskritist and Indologist, who had been impress ...

wherein were stored the holy secrets of a man's heart. Max Müller asked the Swami, 'What are you doing to make Sri Ramakrishna k ...

The very first time the Swami met Mrs. Sevier in private he addressed her as 'Mother' and asked her if she would not like to com ...

virility of a warrior, and brahma-teja, or the radiance of a brahmin.... These men will stand aside from the world, give their l ...

philosophy. He believed that the system of Vedanta, as founded on the Upanishads and the Vedanta Sutras, is one of the 'most maj ...

marriage of Harriet, he wrote to her on September 17, 1896, 'Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human r ...

for battle. No encumbrance — no marriage — no children, no undue attachment to anything except the one idea, and live and die fo ...

practising spiritual disciplines and helping the Swami in carrying out the idea of building a monastery in the Himalayas. Faithf ...

asked the Swami how he could muster courage in such a dangerous situation. He said that in the face of danger and death he felt ...

The British Empire with all its evils is the greatest machine that ever existed for the dissemination of ideas. I mean to put my ...

freedom. But now, as the veil was becoming thinner, the Swami began to get a glimpse of the real freedom. He realized that the w ...

this playground of the world, isn't it? Whom to praise, whom to blame? It is all His play. They want an explanation, but how can ...

communed with God. In Milan the Swami was much impressed by the great cathedral and by Leonardo's 'Last Supper.' Pisa, with the ...

The old man in the dream concluded his statement by saying: 'The truths and ideas preached by us were presented as the teachings ...

sensuality among this vast country's heterogeneous elements. People had been swept off their feet by the newly acquired prosperi ...