Voice of Vivekananda
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Considering the big city with all its comforts unsuitable for spiritual practice, some of the students wanted a quiet spot where they might devote themselves to a life of renunciation. Miss Minnie C. …
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One of the students was psychic. One day Turiyananda found her practising automatic writing. Making her mind passive, she sat with a pencil in her hand, and automatic writing would begin. The hand …
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After one lecture, a timid young woman told Turiyananda that she could not understand how the soul could be God and the world unreal. “It took me many years to realize this,” replied the swami, “but …
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Later Swami Turiyananda said: ‘One night in Ujjain, I was sleeping under a tree. A storm came, and suddenly someone touched me. I got up and at once a branch fell on the spot where I had slept.’ Sri …
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Turiyananda remained in Kankhal for some months; then, in the latter part of 1910, he went to Belur Math. One morning Turiyananda was seated on the eastern veranda of the monastery, facing the Ganges. …
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In her memoirs, Ida Ansell described how Turiyananda taught practical Vedanta. She was entrusted with the duty of taking notes of the swami’s class talks. One time her pencil was dull, so she …
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