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New York: Vedanta for world - an Analysis (New Discovery)
New York: Vedanta for world - an Analysis (New Discovery)
Total Records Found: 52
Jan 1895
CE
The focal point of Swamiji's interest during the early months of 1895 was in New York City, where he was embarking with all intensity upon a new and supremely important phase of his Western work. (ND 2.330)
Jan 1895
CE
Swamiji had learned the need of the West for the philosophy of Vedanta, and he had seen how that philosophy could be applied to every problem of modern man. (ND 2.330)
Jan 1895
CE
Swamiji's tour was fulfilling the function of a divine prophet to America-scattering the seeds of spirituality wherever he went and bestowing his blessing upon innumerable men and women. (ND 2.330)
Jan 1895
CE
"Vivekananda is nothing if not a breaker of bondage." (ND 2.331)
Jan 1895
CE
Swamiji did not come to America with a ready made and full-blown message, then the question that remains to be answered is how, why, and when it evolved? (ND 2.331)
Jan 1895
Analysis
In making this research there are certain handicaps. (ND 2.332)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Despite many deficiencies, the reports are on the whole dependable and, when checked for accuracy against Swamiji's letters, serve as invaluable source material. (ND 2.332)
Jan 1895
Analysis
It is curious that nowhere else does one find so detailed a description of Swamiji's personality as in the American newspapers. (ND 2.333)
Jan 1895
Analysis
American Reporters, men and women in different fields in America described Swamiji on his physics, dress, style, voice, speech, lectures and knowledge. (ND 2.335)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji was not "dynamic" in the ordinary sense of the word; that is, he was not explosive. His intense power and magnetism were felt rather than seen. (ND 2.340)
Jan 1895
Analysis
About Swamiji's manners (ND 2.341)
Jan 1895
Analysis
As has been said, the titles of Swamiji's reported lectures give a good indication of the subjects he dealt with during his tour. (ND 2.344)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Analysis of Swamiji's Pre - Vedanta Lectures. (ND 2.345)
Jan 1895
Analysis
About Swamiji's mission. (ND 2.346)
Jan 1895
Notes
In a little more than one year Swamiji permanently altered the strong current of antagonistic thought that for decades had been directed against his motherland. (ND 2.347)
Jan 1895
Notes
Swamiji presented India to American people through his lecture " India's Gift To The World". (ND 2.348)
Jan 1895
Notes
The fact is that Swamiji made a distinction between Christian missionaries and "missionaries of Christ". (ND 2.350)
Jan 1895
Analysis
It was inevitable that from the start Swamiji would lecture in the West on religious harmony. (ND 2. 352)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Again and again he emphasized the fact that all religions are good, that variations are essential. (ND 2. 352)
Jan 1895
Analysis
As time went on, Swamiji began to stress more and more the difference between religion and creed and sought to formulate the unifying principles through which one could see all creeds as parts of one great whole. (ND 2. 356)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji illustrated the difference between religion and creed in many ways. (ND 2. 356)
Jan 1895
Analysis
In a subsidiary attempt to find a basis for religious unity Swamiji often pointed out the historical relationship between Eastern and Western religions. (ND 2. 358)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji's active interest in the founding of an international university, whose faculty was to "include professors selected from all religions," is yet another indication that he was seeking ways and means. (ND 2. 359)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji was a great admirer of America's inventive genius, its spirit of enterprise, its gift of organization, and, above all, its elevation of the common man. (ND 2. 360)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji believed that the Hindoo faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material. (ND 2. 361)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji was, of course, not the first Indian teacher to try to combine material life and spirituality. (ND 2. 363)
Jan 1895
Analysis
The serenity and compassion of Buddha were reflected even in Swamiji's features. (ND 2. 363)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji wrote from America to his brother monk and disciples, exhorting them to devote themselves to the service of man! (ND 2. 366)
Jan 1895
Analysis
To Swamiji, Buddha was an outcome of the teachings of the Upanishads, an extension or demonstration of the ancient Vedanta. (ND 2. 367)
Jan 1895
Analysis
By the beginning of 1895 the final answer-a restatement and reenergizing of the ancient Vedanta emerged in clear outline. (ND 2. 368)
Jan 1895
Analysis
The thinking process was on in Swmiji's mind right from the day he came to America. This can be sensed from his letters to Alasinga, Maharaja of Mysore and Ramakrishnananda. (ND 2. 369)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji had a strong desire to write. (ND 2. 370)
Jan 1895
Analysis
A clue to the direction his thought was taking during this period can, however, be found in his lengthy Reply to the Madras Address. (ND 2. 371)
1895
Analysis
Swamiji's determination about conquering the world sith spirituality was also reaveld from his reply to Calcutta address on November 18, 1894. (ND 2. 372)
Jan 1895
Analysis
During the Cambridge classes Swamiji "helped many students [of Harvard University] in the solution of philosophical problems in which they had become involved in their course of study". (ND 2. 373)
Jan 1895
Analysis
In the fall of 1894 new thoughts were surging in Swamiji's mind and were demanding written expression. (ND 2. 373)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Prabuddha Bharata published an unfinished and undated article by him, the contents of which seem to be in keeping with the trend of his thought in late 1894 and 1895 and may possibly constitute the jottings he mentioned. (ND 2. 374)
Jan 1895
Analysis
A few weeks later he settled in New York to open his classes on Vedanta. (ND 2. 376)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji embarked with full vigor and full assurance upon his world mission, that of teaching Vedanta. (ND 2. 376)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Up to the end of September, Swamiji had come to no settled decision to remain in America and teach. Yet he remained. (ND 2. 378)
Jan 1895
Analysis
One cannot help wondering what held Swamiji in America. (ND 2. 379)
Jan 1895
Analysis
A conclusive indication that in the fall Swamiji was becoming conscious that his mission must include the West. (ND 2. 380)
Jan 1895
Analysis
The way in which Swamiji used the word Vedanta was somewhat his own. (ND 2. 383)
Jan 1895
Analysis
According to Sister Christine, he sometimes spent hours debating aloud the pros and cons of a given problem before coming to its solution. (ND 2. 389)
Jan 1895
Analysis
One cannot ignore the fact that Swamiji was an illumined soul and that his thought was not like that of ordinary men but was intuitive and free of laborious process. (ND 2. 389)
Jan 1895
Analysis
In thinking of the case with which Swamiji's mind moved between the realms of reason and super reason, one is reminded of two passages in Sister Nivedita's The Master as I Saw Him. (ND 2. 389)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Whether the voices Swamiji heard came from the depths of his own being or from some other source is immaterial. (ND 2. 390)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji left no doubt about the fact that he was continually receiving divine guidance. (ND 2. 391)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji's decisions were not guided by reason or practical considerations alone. (ND 2. 391)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji thundered when another of his brothers felt that he was departing from the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna: (ND 2. 392)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji was guided both by divine inspiration and by his own intellect. (ND 2. 392)
Jan 1895
Analysis
Swamiji's mission was, in a sense, twofold. (ND 2. 392)
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