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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda's inspiring personality was well known both in India and in America during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. The unknown monk of India suddenly leapt into fame at the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893, at which he represented Hinduism.

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- September 14, 2014

Swami Vivekananda: Swami Vivekananda-4: KRISHNA : This article was recorded by Ida Ansell in shorthand. As, however, Swamiji's speed was too great for her i...

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THOUGHTS ON THE GITA: Swami Vivekananda.

- January 17, 2026

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...

Swami Vivekananda’s Speeches at the World’s Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893. (END)

- July 05, 2026

================================================================================================= Monday 06, July 2026, Swami Vivekananda’s Speeches at the World’s Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893. Address at the Final Session ================================================================================================ 1.#RESPONSE TO: 1.#WELCOME: At the World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago: 11th September 1893 - Swami Vivekananda. Sisters and Brothers of America, It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have given us. I thank you in the name of the most ancient order of monks in the world; I thank you in the name of the mother of religions; and I thank you in the name of millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects. My thanks, also, to some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates from the Orient, have told you that these men from far-off nations may well cla...

KARMA IN ITS EFFECT ON CHARACTER‌ - Swami Vivekananda

- April 30, 2026

==================================================================================================== Friday 01, May 2026, 05:00. KARMA IN ITS EFFECT ON CHARACTER‌: Swami Vivekananda ======================================================= The word karma is derived from the Sanskrit Kri, to do; all action is Karma. Technically, this word also means the effects of actions. In connection with metaphysics, it sometimes means the effects, of which our past actions were the causes. But in Karma-Yoga we have simply to do with the word Karma as meaning work. The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is...