Swami Vivekananda

  ================================================================================================= 1.# Wednesday 19, February 2025, 05:30 Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 — 4 July 1902) Lectures and Discourses: Chicago 1893 Volume - 1. VEDANTA AS A FACTOR IN CIVILISATION (Extract from an address delivered at Airlie Lodge, Ridgeway Gardens, England) ========================================================================================= VEDANTA AS A FACTOR IN CIVILISATION (Extract from an address delivered at Airlie Lodge, Ridgeway Gardens, England) =============================================================================================== People who are capable of seeing only the gross external aspect of things can perceive in the Indian nation only a conquered and suffering people, a race of dreamers and philosophers. They seem to be incapable of perceiving that in the spiritual realm India conquers the world. No doubt it is true that ju...

=============================================================================== 1.# Wednesday 18, December 2024 05:30. 1.# (This discussion followed the lecture on the Vedanta Philosophy delivered by the Swami at the Graduate Philosophical Society of Harvard University, U. S. A., on March 25, 1896. (Vol. I.) ================================================================================ A DISCUSSION: Q. — I should like to know something about the present activity of philosophic thought in India. To what extent are these questions discussed? A. — As I have said, the majority of the Indian people are practically dualists, and the minority are monists. The main subject of discussion is Mâyâ and Jiva. When I came to this country, I found that the labourers were informed of the present condition of politics; but when I asked them, "What is religion, and what are the doctrines of this and that particular sect?" they said, "We do not know; we go to church." In India if I ...