Vedanta: Modern Writings

My India My People – Sister Nivedita

My India My People – Sister Nivedita

Transcript of lectures given by Pravrajika Atmaprana at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture in 1979. Topics include: Service to the poor and needy in India; Nivedita's work among women; Nivedita's support to the cause of national education; Nivedita's contribution in the field of national awakening.

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Mystery of Human Experience : Who Is the Seer and What is the Seen? (Series #7)

Mystery of Human Experience : Who Is the Seer and What is the Seen? (Series #7)

In our concept of experience, who is the subject and what is the object? Who is the seer, what is the seen? Based on Shankaracharya's 'Drg Drsya Viveka', the author helps us to discriminate between the experiencer and the object of experience, the ultimate Reality and apparent reality. Based on talks delivered at Pangot, India in 2009.

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Path of Devotion, The

Path of Devotion, The

The author's admonitions to steadfastness, fearlessness and self surrender are the call of the innermost soul to itself.

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Path of Knowledge, The (Series #1)

Path of Knowledge, The (Series #1)

Chapter Two of Bhagavad Gita contains the essence of the entire philosophy of Hinduism. Here Lord Krishna expounds to the bewildered Arjuna the concepts of the Real and unreal, death and rebirth, pleasure and pain, the nature of Atman, the characteristics of the man of wisdom and the need to control the senses. These talks, based on the Chapter Two of Bhagavad Gita, were given at Santa Barbara, California in 2005.

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Paths of Meditation

Paths of Meditation

A collection of essays on various techniques of meditation according to different paths and faiths.

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Pilgrimage to Kanyakumari and Rameshwaram

Pilgrimage to Kanyakumari and Rameshwaram

A first hand account of two of India's great sacred shrines with details of their legends, and religious and historical significance, particularly in relation to Sri Sarada Devi,Swami Vivekananda and other disciples of Sri Ramakrishna.

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Pilgrimage to Western Ghats Temples in Karnataka, A

Pilgrimage to Western Ghats Temples in Karnataka, A

The travelogue provides a brief history of well-known centers of pilgrimage with description of their spiritual, cultural and architectural features.

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Power of Thought

Power of Thought

'Nothing is more potent to mould human life than thought' Opening words.

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Practical Spirituality

Practical Spirituality

The central idea which has inspired these short essays on a wide variety of topics, is the author's firm faith in the essential divinity of man.

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Practical Vedanta and the Science of Values

Practical Vedanta and the Science of Values

Four lectures in which the swami addresses the grave problems arising from the erosion of moral values in the world today and gives sound and practical solutions found in the Vedanta philosophy.

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