Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 9 [Hardcover]

Swami Vivekananda (Author), Pravrajika Brahmaprana (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 7, 1997

This volume is the latest addition to the Complete Works of Sw. Vivekananda. It includes new lectures, letters, and other writings that have been discovered since Volume 8 was last published over 45 years ago. In volume 9 are many talks and lectures that were discovered in more recent history. We find additional writings, poems, letters, conversations and interviews, and excerpts from Sister Nivedita's book Notes of Some Wanderings with Swami Vivekananda.

Editorial Reviews

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

From 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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 609 pages
• Publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math; 1st edition (February 7, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8175051868
• ISBN-13: 978-8175051867
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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