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This ebook contains all the books, lecture, discussions, prose, poetry, and letters written by Swami Vivekananda, a spiritual teacher from India at the end of the 19th century who brought Vedanta to the United States and Europe. Vivekananda was a disciple of realized and awakened saint Sri Ramakrishna.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Volume I
Addresses at The Parliament of Religions
Karma-Yoga
Raja-Yoga
Lectures and Discourses
Volume II
Work And Its Secret
The Powers of the Mind
Hints On Practical Spirituality
Bhakti Or Devotion
Jnana-Yoga
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
Reports in American Newspapers
Volume III
Lectures and Discourses
Bhakti-Yoga
Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Reports in American Newspapers
Buddhistic India
Volume IV
Addresses on Bhakti-Yoga
Lectures and Discourses
Writings: Prose
Writings: Poems
Translation: Prose
Translation: Poems
Volume V
Epistles – First Series
Interviews
Notes from Lectures and Discourses
Questions and Answers
Conversations and Dialogues
Sayings And Utterances
Writings: Prose and Poems
Volume VI
Lectures and Discourses
Notes of Class Talks and Lectures
Writings: Prose and Poems (Original and Translated)
Epistles – Second Series
Conversations and Dialogues
Volume VII
Conversations and Dialogues
Inspired talks
Translation of writings
Notes of Class Talks and Lectures
Epistles – Third Series
Volume VIII
Lectures and Discourses
Writings: Prose
Writings: Poems
Notes of Class Talks and Lectures
Sayings And Utterances
Epistles – Fourth Series
Volume IX
Letters – Fifth Series
Lectures and Discourses
Notes of Lectures and Classes
Writings: Prose and Poems
Conversations and Interviews
Excerpts from Sister Nivedita's Book
Sayings and Utterances
Newspaper Reports

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The speaker told of the effect that the mere presence of a Christian or Mohammedan would have on a Hindu household. He said that it was veritable pollution for a white man to step into a Hindu’s presence, and that after receiving one outside of his religion, the Hindu always took a bath.

The Hindu monk abused [?] the order of the Pariahs roundly, saying they did all the menial work, ate carrion and were the scavengers. He also said that the people who wrote books on India came only into contact with these people, and not with genuine Hindus. He described the trial of one who broke the rules of caste, and said that the only punishment inflicted was the refusal of the particular caste to intermarry or drink or eat with him or his children. All other ideas were erroneous.

In explaining the defects of caste, the speaker said that in preventing competition it produced stagnation, and completely blocked the progress of the people. He said that in taking away brutality it stopped social improvements. In checking competition it increased population. In its favor, he said, were the facts that it was the only ideal of equality and fraternity. That money had nothing to do with social standing in the caste. All were equal. He said that the fault of all the great reformers was that they thought caste was due only to religious representation, instead of ascribing it to the right source, namely, the curious social conditions. He spoke very bitterly of the attempts of the English and Mohammedans to civilize the country by the bayonet and fire and sword. He said that to abolish caste one must change the social conditions completely ant destroy the entire economic system of the country. Better, he said, that the waves of the [Bay of] Bengal flow and drown all rather than this. English civilization was composed of the three “B’s” — Bible, bayonet, and brandy. “That is civilization, and it has been carried to such an extent that the average income of a Hindu is 50 cents a month. Russia is outside, saying. ‘Let’s civilize a little,’ and England goes on and on.”

The monk grew excited as he walked up and down, talking rapidly about the way the Hindus had been treated. He scored the foreign educated Hindus, and described their return to their native land, “full of champagne and new ideas”. He said that child-marriage was bad, because the West said so, and that the mother-in-law could torture her daughter-in-law with impunity, as the son could not interfere. He said that the foreigners took every opportunity to abuse the heathen, because they had so many evils of their own that they wanted to cover them up. He said that each nation must work out its own salvation, and that no one else could solve its problems.

In speaking of India’s benefactors he asked whether America had ever heard of David Herr [Hare], who established the first college for women, and who had devoted so much of his life to education.

The speaker gave a number of Indian proverbs that were not at all complimentary to the English. In closing he made an earnest appeal for his land. He said:

“It matters not as long as India is true to herself and to her religion. But a blow has been struck at her heart by this awful godless West when she sends hypocrisy and atheism into her midst. Instead of sending bushels of abuses, carloads of vituperation and shiploads of condemnations, let an endless stream of love go forth. Let us all be men”

Volume III

Lectures and Discourses

Bhakti-Yoga

Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion

Lectures from Colombo to Almora

Reports in American Newspapers

Buddhistic India

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San Francisco 1900

Lectures and Discourses

Unity, The Goal Of Religion

The Free Soul

One Existence Appearing As Many

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