Voice of Vivekananda
By VivekaVani
About Sri Ramakrishna’s method of worship, Hriday said: “I would notice that Uncle, taking flowers and bel leaves in his hand, touched his own head, chest, in fact the whole body, including the feet, …
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Once an incident happened in Mathur’s family that greatly strengthened his faith in the Master. His second wife, Jagadamba, contracted severe dysentery. The doctors tried their utmost to cure her but …
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By VivekaVani
Every year during makar-sankranti (an auspicious day in the middle of January) monks and pilgrims from all over India go to Gangasagar, the confluence of the Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, for a holy …
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About this visit Shivananda said later: A Muslim whom I met in Cuddapah is so highly esteemed that he received the title of Khan Bahadur from the British Government. He belongs to the Sufi sect of …
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Brahmananda was a man of few words. His life was his teaching. Rather than preaching religion he demonstrated it. Swami Basudevananda recalled: It was 2:00 or 3:00 p.m. on a hot summer day. Swami …
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One night a thief entered the room of Josephine MacLeod [Joe], an American devotee of Swamiji, who was staying in the guest house of Belur Math. When the thief grabbed her locket reliquary, which …