Voice of Vivekananda
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1. "Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and the many as unreal?" the Swami was asked. "Yes", answered the Swami. "And what …
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(Report of a lecture delivered in America) In France the "rights of man" was long a watchword of the race; in America the rights of women still beseech the public ear; in India we have concerned …
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(Fragmentary notes taken on a Sunday afternoon in New York in June, 1900) From the tribal or clan-God, man arrives, in every religion, at the sum, the God of gods. Confucius alone has expressed …
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(Notes of a lecture delivered at the Vedanta Society, New York, in June, 1900) The different sectarian systems of India all radiate from one central idea of unity or dualism. They are all under …
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(Notes of a lecture give in San Francisco on March 20, 1900) The subject tonight is man, man in contrast with nature. For a long time the word "nature" was used almost exclusively to denote …
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(Report of a lecture delivered in Oakland on Monday, March 19, 1900, witheditorial comments of the Oakland Enquirer) The lecture which the Swami Vivekananda gave Monday night in his new course …
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