Voice of Vivekananda
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Om Salutations to Bhagavan Shri Ramakrishna Brothers of Calcutta! 1. We feel happy when you are happy, and we suffer when you suffer. Therefore, during these days of extreme adversity, we are …
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(Prabuddha Bharata, September 1982, pp. 390-93.) In 1889, Swami Vivekananda translated into Bengali selections from Book I, chapters 1-6 of Thomas à Kempis's The Imitation of Christ. They were …
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(The Life of Swami Vivekananda, Vol. I. p. 250.) After his experience of the macrocosm within the microcosm while absorbed in meditation under the peepul tree at Kakrighat, in 1890, Swami …
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(New Discoveries, Vol. 4, pp. 213-14.) Probably at the turn of the century, Miss Ellen Waldo gave these undated notes in Swami Vivekananda's handwriting to her friend Sister Devamata, a member of …
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(New Discoveries, Vol. 3, pp. 440-41.) [An undated and untitled, one-page manuscript in Swami Vivekananda's own handwriting] My nerves act on my brain — the brain sends back a reaction which, on …
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This article first appeared anonymously in the February 1895 issue of the New York Medical Times, a prestigious monthly medical journal founded and edited by Dr. Egbert …