Swami Vivekananda

================================================================================ Sunday 31, Mar 2024 05:30. (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 just as the too active Western mind would profit by an admixture of Eastern introspect ion and the meditative habit, so the Eastern would benefit by a somewhat greater activity and energy. Still we must ask: What may be that force which causes this afflicted and suffering people, the Hindu, and the Jewish too (the two races from which have originated all the great religions of the world) to survive, when other nations perish?

=============================================================================== Friday 23, 2024 05:30. (Delivered at Los Angeles, California, January 8, 1900) =============================================================================== All over the world there has been the belief in the supernatural throughout the ages. All of us have heard of extraordinary happenings, and many of us have had some personal experience of them. I would rather introduce the subject by telling you certain facts which have come within my own experience. I once heard of a man who, if any one went to him with questions in his mind, would answer them immediately; and I was also informed that he foretold events. I was curious and went to see him with a few friends. We each had something in our minds to ask, and, to avoid mistakes, we wrote down our questions and put them in our pockets. As soon as the man saw one of us, he repeated our questions and gave the answers to them. Then he wrote something on paper,

================================================================ Friday, 26  Jan 2024 05:30. RAJA YOGA ================================================================ PATANJALI'S YOGA APHORISMS APPENDIX REFERENCES TO YOGA :  ================================================================ Shvetashvatara Upanishad CHAPTER II ================================================================ अग्निर्यत्राभिमथ्यते वायुर्यत्राधिरुध्यते । सोमो यत्रातिरिच्यते तत्र सञ्जायते मनः ॥६॥ 6. Where the fire is rubbed, where the air is controlled, where the Soma flows over, there a (perfect) mind is created. त्रिरुन्नतं स्थाप्य समं शरीरं हृदीन्द्रियाणि मनसा सन्निवेश्य । ब्रह्मोडुपेन प्रतरेत विद्वान् स्रोतांसि सर्वाणि भयानकानि ॥८॥ 8. Placing the body in a straight posture, with the chest, the throat and the head held erect, making the organs enter the mind, the sage crosses all the fearful currents by means of the raft of Brahman. प्राणान् प्रपीड्येह संयुक्तचेष्टः क्षीणे प्राणे नासिकयोच्छ्वसीत । दुष्