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but had insight into the shape of things to come. The immediate task before him, the Swami felt, was to work for India's regener ...

Mr. Sevier later on said to Swamiji teasingly: 'Now we see! It was this pipe that made you run away from us so abruptly!' Speaki ...

the man to flee from triumph any more than from battle. He regarded the tributes paid to him, a penniless beggar, as tributes pa ...

to 'Castle Kernan,' the palatial home of Billigiri Iyengar, where arrangements had been made for his stay in the city. On the th ...

great religions of the world. We earnestly hope that your work in India may be blessed in further promoting this noble end, and ...

He asked the Indians to stop complaining. Let them make use of the power that lay in their hands. That power was so great that i ...

responsible for it all. Not the English; it is we who are responsible for all our degradation. Our aristocratic ancestors went o ...

wanted : everything else will be ready; but strong, vigorous, believing young men, sincere to the backbone, are wanted. A hundre ...

of India, the city of his birth. The steamer docked at Budge Budge, and the Swami and his party arrived by train in Calcutta on ...

fruitless. 'Sir,' the young man said, 'I sit still in meditation, shutting the door of my room, and keep my eyes closed as long ...

was the way they understood Sri Ramakrishna's teachings. These young monks thought that for one who had taken the monastic vows ...

sinners, who else will save them? Besides, the very fact that someone has taken refuge at the monastery, in his desire to lead a ...

Girish Chandra admitted his ignorance of the scriptures and said, 'Hail Sri Ramakrishna, the very embodiment of the Vedas!' An a ...

The aim of the Association was to spread the truths that Ramakrishna, for the good of humanity, had preached and taught through ...

Therefore they regarded Vivekananda's activities in the West as out of harmony with the Master's teachings. One of them said blu ...

is dry knowledge to be attained by a desert path, killing out the tenderest faculties of the heart! Your bhakti is sentimental n ...

of suffering humanity. And what makes Swami Vivekananda the patriot saint of modern India and at the same time endears him so mu ...

disciples and his own disciples, he left Calcutta, and he was joined later by the Seviers, Miss Müller, and Goodwin. In Lucknow ...

plunging heart and soul into various philanthropic and missionary activities. From Almora he went on a whirlwind tour of the Pun ...

emphasized that the resurgent nationalism of India must be based on her spiritual ideals, but that healthy scientific and techno ...