Swami Vivekananda

=============================================================================== 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 ...

Durga Puja 2024 | Sandhi Puja Durga Puja 2024 | Visarjan =============================================================================== Thursday 08, Aug 2024 05:30. Lectures and Discourses Chicago 1893 3.STEPS TO REALISATION Swami Vivekananda (A class-lecture delivered in America) ================================================================================ STEPS TO REALISATION: (A class-lecture delivered in America) First among the qualifications required of the aspirant for Jnâna, or wisdom, come Shama and Dama, which may be taken together. They mean the keeping of the organs in their own centres without allowing them to stray out. I shall explain to you first what the word "organ" means. Here are the eyes; the eyes are not the organs of vision but only the instruments. Unless the organs also are present, I cannot see, even if I have eyes. But, given both the organs and the instruments, unless the mind attaches itself to these two, no vision takes place. So, in each act...