(Translated from a Bengali song.) Shiva is dancing, lost in the ecstasy of Self, sounding his own cheeks.His tabor is playing and the garland of skulls is …
Continue Reading about Shiva in Ecstasy – Swami Vivekananda →
The Dance of Shiva – Swami Vivekananda
(Translated from a Hindi / Bengali song.) Lo, the God is dancing— Shiva the all-destroyer and Lord of creation,The Master of Yoga and the wielder of Pinâka. (Trident.)His flaming locks have filled …
Continue Reading about The Dance of Shiva – Swami Vivekananda →
To My Own Soul – Swami Vivekananda
(Composed at Ridgely Manor, New York, in 1899.) Hold yet a while, Strong Heart,Not part a lifelong yokeThough blighted looks the present, future gloom. And age it seems since you and I began …
To an Early Violet – Swami Vivekananda
(Written to a Western lady-disciple from New York, 6th January 1896.) What though thy bed be frozen earth, Thy cloak the chilling blast;What though no mate …
Continue Reading about To an Early Violet – Swami Vivekananda →
The Living God – Swami Vivekananda
(Written to an American friend from Almora, 9th July 1897.) He who is in you and outside you,Who works through all hands,Who walks on all feet,Whose body are all ye,Him worship, and break all other …
Light – Swami Vivekananda
(From a letter to Miss MacLeod, 26th December 1900 (Vide Vol. VI.)) I look behind and afterAnd find that all is right,In my deepest sorrowsThere is a soul of light. …