Voice of Vivekananda
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We, as a nation, have lost our individuality, and that is the cause of all the mischief in India. We have to give back to the nation its lost individuality and raise the masses. The Hindu, the …
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इतरपरामर्शात् स इति चेत्, न, असभवात् ॥ १८ ॥ itaraparāmarśāt sa iti cet, na, asambhavāt || 18 || itara-parāmarśat—Because of the reference to the other (i.e. the individual …
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The Swami, who was anyway in fragile health all through his Camp Taylor days, became even more indisposed upon reaching San Francisco. Alice Hansborough, who had returned with him from the forests, …
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A notable time during the Swami’s stay in California was when he along with a group of friends and admirers retreated to a forest area, about thirty miles north of San Francisco in the Marine County. …
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On 11th April, after having their dinner at their Turk Street Apartment in San Francisco, Swamiji, Alice Hansborough, and Mr. Aspinall took the streetcar and then the ferry across the Bay to what …
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Frank Rhodehamel was a young man in his late twenties living with his wife in Oakland. He has written elaborate memoirs of meeting Swamiji in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also took very detailed …
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