Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) was an Indian Hindu monk, teacher, speaker, and writer. A disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda is best known for introducing Hinduism and the philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the West.
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Transcriptions of lectures on the Bhagavad Gita that Swami Vivekananda gave to a Western audience in 1900. Swami Vivekananda studied the the Bhagavad Gita throughout his life.
Swami Vivekananda writes of Bhakti yoga, the spiritual path to the divine.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone.
In contemporary yoga classes, teachers often speak of Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras,” a philosophical text compiled around two thousand years ago, as the wellspring of the practice.
Five lectures by the great Swami Vivekananda that explain Hinduism as a universal religion, its common bases and philosophy, and its four yogas.
A collection of lectures by Swami Vivekananda on Jnâna yoga, a Hindu spiritual practice in the pursuit of pure knowledge.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Swami Vivekananda, the patriot saint, the torch bearer of Hinduism, had passed away but his teachings to humanity still lives on. One such teaching which he repeatedly spoke through out his life is about “Karma Yoga” – the concept of work and duty- the Karma Yoga.
The Indian monk, born Narendranath Datta to an aristocratic Calcutta family, alighted in Chicago in 1893 in ochre robes and turban, with little money after a daunting two-month trek from Bombay.
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