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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.

Swami Vivekananda: The Soul and God : 4.

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- November 08, 2014

Swami Vivekananda: The Soul and God : 4.: But in India they are sensible enough never to make [their God a physical being]. You never see in India a temple of Brahmâ. Why? B...

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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...

STEPS OF HINDU PHILOSOPHIC THOUGHT : 10.

- December 09, 2014

The last are the non-dualists. They raise the question also, that God must be both the material and the efficient cause of this universe. As such, God has become the whole of this universe and there is no going against it. And when these other people say that God is the soul, and the universe is the body, and the body is changing, but God is changeless, the non-dualists say, all this is nonsense. In that case what is the use of calling God the material cause of this universe? The material cause is the cause become effect; the effect is nothing but the cause in another form. Wherever you see an effect, it is the cause reproduced. If the universe is the effect, and God the cause, it must be the reproduction of God. If you say that the universe is the body of God, and that the body becomes contracted and fine and becomes the cause, and out of that the universe is evolved, the non-dualists say that it is God Himself who has become this universe. Now comes a very fine ques...