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For the regeneration of India, in the Swami's view, the help of the West was indispensable. The thought of India had been upperm ...

admirer of the Swami during his American trip. Miss Müller, who knew the Swami in both England and America and had helped defray ...

every day!' she said. The Swami gave the money to Swami Trigunatita to defray the initial expenses of the newly started Bengali ...

'Go thou,' he said, 'and follow him who was born and gave his life for others five hundred times before he attained the vision o ...

Varanasi and the magnificence of Agra and Delhi; he related to them the history of the Moghul Emperors and the Rajput heroes, an ...

'Why, we shall sell if necessary the land which has just been purchased for the monastery. We are sannyasins; we must be ready t ...

Ahead, still help with love this world of strife! Before the Swami left Almora, he arranged to start again the monthly magazine ...

TO THE FOURTH OF JULY Behold, the dark clouds melt away That gathered thick at night and hung So like a gloomy pall above the ea ...

Of Buddha, the Swami said that he was the greatest man that ever lived. 'Above all, he never claimed worship. Buddha said: "Budd ...

anyone, except that he had been granted the grace of Amarnath, the Lord of Immortality, not to die until he himself willed it. T ...

Mohammedan boatman as the symbol of the Divine Mother. His meditation on Kali became intense, and one day he had a most vivid ex ...

'It is a mistake,' the Swami said, 'to hold that with all men pleasure is the motive. Quite as many are born to seek pain. There ...

'O idiot,' cried Ramakrishna, 'who said that? Fold your hands and say humbly, "O God, we are too feeble and too weak to understa ...

his body by his own will. Were the visions at the temple of Kshirbhavani a premonition of the approaching dissolution? When the ...

carried on his shoulder the copper vessel containing the Master's sacred relics. While bearing it he said to a disciple: 'The Ma ...

It was a few months before the buildings of the new monastery were completed and the monastery was finally removed to its presen ...

practicalization of the Eternal Truth — the Oneness of All Beings. "Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness." The Advait ...

of training your muscles! For ascetics, mortification is all right. For workers, well- developed bodies, muscles of iron and ner ...

the greatest spiritual discipline. Work, my children, work with your whole heart and soul! That is the thing. Mind not the fruit ...

America, Vivekananda put his arms round his brother disciple's neck and wept like a child, saying: 'Dear brother, don't you see ...