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Synopsis
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.
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About the Author
Swami Vivekananda is regarded in India as a patriot and saint. He came to the United States and spoke at the World's Parliament of Religion in Chicago. After the Parliament, the Swami traveled throughout the United States and England lecturing and giving the Western world his best teachings on Vedanta, teachings that seemed customized for the particular needs of the western mind. His first book on the yoga of meditation was assembled and published as Raja Yoga. Later came out a collection of his talks on the intellectually demanding approach Jnana Yoga, and finally, talks on the yoga approaches that suit most people Karma and Bhakti Yoga. A series of private talks to his most serious students at Thousand Islands Park in New York was later published as Inspired Talks.
After four years, Vivekananda finally returned to India for a hero's welcome. Here he was able to put many of his ideas in practice such as service to the poor, education, hospitals, and relief in times of natural disaster. A major day came in 1899 when the permanent headquarters of his brother monks, called the Ramakrishna Order of India, was consecrated. He said to his disciples,
Review
His words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of a hero --Romain Rolland, famed 19th-century author
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- PublisherVedanta Press & Bookshop
- Publication date1947
- ISBN 10 0874810922
- ISBN 13 9780874810929
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages4357
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