Let us say that here is an infinite line amid darkness. We do not know
see the line, but on it there is one luminous point which moves on. As
it moves along the line, it lights up its different parts in succession,
and all that is left behind becomes dark again. Our consciousness
may well be linked to this luminous point. Its past experiences have
been replaced by the present, or have become subconscious. We are not aware
of their presence in us; but they are, unconsciously influencing our body
and mind. Every movement that is now being made without the help of
consciousness was previously conscious. Sufficient impetus has been given
to it to work of itself.
Let us be at peace, perfect peace, with ourselves and give up our whole
body and mind and everything as an eternal sacrifice unto the Lord.
Instead of the sacrifice of pouring oblations into the fire, perform this
one great sacrifice day and night - the sacrifice of your little self.
Swami Vivekananda Biography
Read the biography of Swami Vivekannda Know
how Narendranath became Vivekananda.
Address at the Parliament of Religons
"As the different streams having there sources
in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord,
the different paths which men take through different tendencies,
various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee."
Collection of Peoms
Concentration and Breathing
We should put our minds on things; they should not draw our minds to them. We are usually forced to concentrate. Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training.
The Ramayana
The Mahabharata
THE GREAT TEACHERS OF THE WORLD
CHRIST THE MESSENGER
RAJA-YOGA
The science of Raja-Yoga, in the first place, proposes to put before humanity a practical and scientificlly worked out method of reaching truth. The world is ready to giveup its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow comes through concentration. The powers of the mind are like rays of light dissipated; when they are conentrated, they illumine. This is our only means of knowledge.
1)INTRODUCTORY
2)THE FIRST STEPS
3)PRANA
4)THE PSYCHIC PRANA
5)THE CONTROL OF PSYCHIC PRANA
6)PRATYAHARA AND DHARANA
7)DHYANA AND SAMADHI
8)RAJA-YOGA IN BRIEF
JNANA-YOGA
There is a great tendency in modern times to talk too much of work and decry thought. Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there is no thought, there will be no work. Fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work. Talk not about impurity, but say that we are pure. We have hypnotised ourselves into this thought that we are little, that we are born, and that we are going to die, and into a constant state of fear.
1) THE NECESSITY OF RELIGION
2) THE REAL NATURE OF MAN
3) MAYA AND ILLUSION
4) MAYA AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPTION OF GOD
5) MAYA AND FREEDOM
6) THE ABSOLUTE AND MANIFESTATION
7) GOD IN EVERYTHING
8) REALISATION
9) UNITY IN DIVERSITY
10) THE FREEDOM OF THE SOUL
11) THE COSMOS - The Macrocosm
12) THE COSMOS - The Microcosm
13) IMMORTALITY
14) THE ATMAN
15) THE ATMAN: ITS BONDAGE AND FREEDOM
16) THE REAL AND THE APPARENT MAN
Powers of Mind The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are fragments of that universal mind, little waves in the ocean; and on account of this continuity, we can convey o ur thoughts directly to one another.
KARMA-YOGA
Can any permanent happiness be given to the world? In the ocean we cannot raise a wave without causing a hollow somewhere else. The sum total of the good things in the world has been the same throughout in its relation to man's need and greed. It cannot be increased or decreased.
1)KARMA IN ITS EFFECT ON CHARACTER
2)EACH IS GREAT IN HIS OWN PLACE
3)THE SECRET OF WORK
4)WHAT IS DUTY?
5)WE HELP OURSELVES, NOT THE WORLD
6)NON-ATTACHMENT IS COMPLETE SELF-ABNEGATION
7)FREEDOM
8)THE IDEAL OF KARMA YOGA
Work and its secret. We not only want the mighty
power of love, this mighty power of attachment, the power of love, the
power of throwing our whole soul upon a single object, losing our selves
and letting ourselves be annihilated, as it were, for other souls -- which
is the power of gods -- but we want to be higher even than the gods.
The perfect man can put his whole soul upon that one point of love,
yet he is unattached.
BHAKTI-YOGA - THE YOGA OF LOVE AND DEVOTION
BHAKTI
1)DEFINITION OF BHAKTI
2) THE PHILOSOPHY OF ISHVARA
3)SPIRITUAL REALISATION, THE AIM OF BHAKTI-YOGA
4)THE NEED OF GURU
5)QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ASPIRANT AND THE TEACHER
6)INCARNATE TEACHERS AND INCARNATION
7)THE MANTRA: OM: WORD AND WISDOM
8)WORSHIP OF SUBSTITUTES AND IMAGES
9)THE CHOSEN IDEAL
10)THE METHOD AND THE MEANS
PARA-BHAKTI OR SUPREME DEVOTION
1)THE PREPARATORY RENUNCIATION
2) THE BHAKTA'S RENUNCIATION RESULTS FROM LOVE
3)THE NATURALNESS OF BHAKTI-YOGA AND ITS CENTRAL SECRET
4) THE FORMS OF LOVE-MANIFESTATION
5)UNIVERSAL LOVE AND HOW IT LEADS TO SELF-SURRENDER
6)THE HIGHER KNOWLEDGE AND THE HIGHER LOVE ARE ONE TO THE TRUE LOVER
7)THE TRIANGLE OF LOVE
8) THE GOD OF LOVE IS HIS OWN PROOF
9)HUMAN REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DIVINE IDEAL OF LOVE
10)CONCLUSION
Vedanta and Religion
1) VEDANTISM
2)VEDANTA IN ITS APPLICATION TO INDIAN LIFE
3) THE VEDANTA IN ALL ITS PHASES
4) THE VEDANTA
5) THE MISSION OF THE VEDANTA
1) SANNYASA: ITS IDEAL AND PRACTICE
2) THE SAGES OF INDIA
3) THE RELIGION WE ARE BORN IN
4) THE COMMON BASES OF HINDUISM
1)THE WORK BEFORE US
2) MY PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
3) THE FUTURE OF INDIA
4) WHAT HAVE I LEARNT?
Practical Vedanta
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. Intellect is like limbs without the power of locomotion. It is only when feeling enters and gives them motion that they move and work on others. That is so all over the world, and it is a thing which you must always remember. It is one of the most practical things in Vedantic morality, for it is the teaching of the Vedanta that you are all prophets, and all must be prophets. The book is not the proof of your conduct, but you are the proof of the book. How do you know that a book teaches truth? Because you are truth and feel it. That is what the Vedanta says. What is the proof of the Christs and Buddhas of the world? That you and I feel like them.
1) Practical Vedanta - Part I
2) Practical Vedanta - Part II
3) Practical Vedanta - Part III
4) Practical Vedanta - Part IV
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