Excerpt from The Vedanta Philosophy: An Address Before the Graduate Philosophical Society of Harvard University, March 25, 1896 Following the lecture and discussion, are the answers of the Swami to questions at two afternoon talks with some Harvard students, on March 22 and 24. These answers were stenographically reported, but the questions were not. There have also been added a few selections from unpublished lectures. Some of the answers and selections cover the same general ground, but they have all been retained on account of the variety in treatment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Vedanta Philosophy: An Address Before the Graduate Philosophical Society of Harvard University, March 25, 1896 (Classic Reprint)

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Swami, Vivekananda

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Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

A huge collection of the books,lectures,letters, poetry of Swami Vivekananda in 8 volumes.Formerly sold for $55.00. Special subsidized price. (Note that individual volumes in hardback and paperback are also available).... Please note that this edition has been reset and reprinted and has a new ISBN. Please enter 8175054115 into the Amazon search engine to find the latest edition.

Biographies & Memoirs

Vedanta Press & Bookshop

Controlling the mind through meditation. This is the old edition. Look in the Amazon search engine this booknumber to find the latest edition: 978-81-85301-16-7

Raja-Yoga or Conquering the Internal Nature

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

lectures from colombo to almora

advaita ashrama, 1992

Karma-Yoga and Bhakti-Yoga

By Swami Vivekananda, Karma-Yoga and Bhakti-Yoga describes the way to reach perfection through the performance of daily work in a non-attached spirit (i.e. Karma-Yoga - the path of selfless action) and by sublimating human affection into divine love (i.e. Bhakti-Yoga - the path of divine love). Karma-Yoga and Bhakti-Yoga, along with Jnna-Yoga and Rja-Yoga, are considered classics and outstanding treatises on Hindu philosophy. Swami Vivekananda's deep spiritual insight, fervid eloquence, and broad human sympathy shine forth in these works and offer inspiration to all spiritual seekers.

Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

By Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga, the path of meditation and control of the mind, gives a scientific treatment of Yoga philosophy describing methods of concentration, psychic development and the liberation of the soul from bondage of the body. Rja-Yoga also includes Swami Vivekananda's translation and commentary of the "Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali." Raja-Yoga, along with Swami Vivekananda's Karma-Yoga, Bhakti-Yoga, and Jnna-Yoga, are considered classics and outstanding treatises on Hindu philosophy. The Swami's deep spiritual insight, fervid eloquence, and broad human sympathy shine forth in these works and offer inspiration to all spiritual seekers.

Raja-Yoga

Vivekananda once said, "I have a message to the West, as Buddha had a message to the East." And the message was Vedanta. Vedanta: Voice of Freedom is culled from Vivekananda's collected works. This book presents in a clear and concise form the spiritual wisdom of India as it has evolved over five thousand years. Thus it evokes the living Vedanta put forth by an extraordinary mind. 
 Edited &amp; with an Introduction by Swami Chetanananda of the Ramakrishna Order of India 
Foreword by Christopher Isherwood 
Preface by Huston Smith

Vedanta: Voice of Freedom

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Vedanta Society of St. Louis

Maya as a philosophical concept is found throughout the religious literature of India. This model states that there is a fundamental act of misperception to which every being is subject. As a result , a creature labors under confusing ideas about the surrounding world and itself. We're always superimposing our relative perceptions and understandings onto an absolute, spiritual condition. The analogy given is in the late afternoon wherein we might see a rope and imagine it to be a snake or see a tree stump and imagine it to be someone we know.      This discovery of mental irresolution with a resulting compensation and psychic projection is a prime contribution that Freud and his contemporaries gave to the world. The idea is that if psychic energy is denied and repressed, the mind becomes energetically projective in a more confining way.      Shankara, the 7th Century philosopher of India, took this process of projection to a collective level. For him, every being is ignoring divine Reality and projecting incomplete interpretations onto It through this basic dynamic of maya. Swami Vivekananda interjects an evolutionary model into the process, showing how the hidden destination to which the healing of all of our irresolution and confusion is ultimately headed is an open, holistic perception of Reality, free of compulsivity and distortion. This, in effect, summarizes Vedic psychology and philosophy.

The Grand Illusion (Vol. 8)

Swami Brahmavidyananda

Temple Universal

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

Râja Yoga: Being Lectures by the Swâmi Vivekânanda

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The Vedanta Philosophy: An Address Before the Graduate Philosophical Society of Harvard University, March 25, 1896 (Classic Reprint)

Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Raja-Yoga or Conquering the Internal Nature

lectures from colombo to almora

Karma-Yoga and Bhakti-Yoga

Raja-Yoga

Vedanta: Voice of Freedom

The Grand Illusion (Vol. 8)

Râja Yoga: Being Lectures by the Swâmi Vivekânanda