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'It is selfishness that we must seek to eliminate. I find that whenever I have made a mistake in my life, it has always been bec ...

Strength and fearlessness. My own ideal is that giant of a saint whom they killed in the Sepoy Mutiny, and who broke his silence ...

power. He had noticed that the members of the audience were becoming so absorbed in his ideas that they were losing their own in ...

Swami Vivekananda gave many lectures before large audiences in Los Angeles and Pasadena; but alas! there was no Goodwin to recor ...

'But He has given us the brain to invent a pipe,' the Swami said with a smile. Everybody laughed, and the Swami was given freedo ...

The Swami visited Detroit again for a week and on July 20 sailed for Paris. Before continuing the thread of Swami Vivekananda's ...

days. Do you know, this was just exactly what the great Sankaracharya himself had to do. He had to go back to his mother in the ...

struggled for and then thrown aside as beneath his worth.' To Mary Hale, who 'has been always the sweetest note in my jarring an ...

love and gratitude. I am well, very well mentally. I feel the rest of the soul more than that of the body. The battles are lost ...

without emotion — peace that one feels alone, surrounded with statues and pictures.— I come, Lord, I come. The world is, but not ...

Jules Bois, and Madame Emma Calve. Pere Hyacinthe, a Carmelite monk who had renounced his vows, had married an American lady and ...

the greatest expressions of the Faith is put into the mouth of a butcher, preaching, by the orders of a married woman, to a sann ...

wrote to Turiyananda: 'My body and mind are broken down; I need rest badly. In addition there is not a single person on whom I c ...

trying to force upon others whatever seems good to them, forgetting that what is good for you may not be good for others. As suc ...

Swami Vivekananda disembarked in Bombay and immediately entrained for Calcutta, arriving at the Belur Math late in the evening o ...

to discontinue the worship, but it was stopped by the members themselves. One of them, however, whose heart was set on dualistic ...

partly through snow, before reaching the railroad station. He arrived at the Belur Math on January 24. Swami Vivekananda had bee ...

building, to which he joyfully returned from his trips to the West or other parts of India. This large room with four windows an ...

ducks unfortunately died yesterday. She had been gasping for breath more than a week. One of my waggish old monks says, "Sir, it ...

It is said that the spot immediately beneath a lamp is dark. And so it was that the orthodox people of the neighbouring villages ...