Swami Vivekananda

National Youth Day 2026: Bhubaneswar Ramakrishna Mission, Bhubaneswar January 17, 2026 ==================================================================================================== Sunday 18, January 2026, 05:00. Swami Vvekananda Works Volume -4. Lectures and Discourses THOUGHTS ON THE GITA ======================================================= THOUGHTS ON THE GITA: During his sojourn in Calcutta in 1897, Swami Vivekananda used to stay for the most part at the Math, the headquarters of the Ramakrisnna Mission, located then at Alambazar. During this time several young men, who had been preparing themselves for some time previously, gathered round him and took the vows of Brahmacharya and Sannyâsa, and Swamiji began to train them for future work, by holding classes on the Gitâ and Vedanta, and initiating them into the practices of meditation. In one of these classes he talked eloquently in Bengali on the Gita. The following is the translation of the summary of the discourse as it...