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New York: Vedanta For World - An Analysis - (Life)
New York: Vedanta For World - An Analysis - (Life)
Total Records Found: 63
1894
Analysis
Year 1894 was one of the most creative years of Swamiji's mission in regard not only to his American work, but to the work he was to start in India as well. (LSV 1. 522)
1894
Analysis
This story is unfolded mainly in the letters the Swami wrote to India from America in 1893-94. (LSV 1. 522)
1894
Analysis
The "Mother's work" consisted primarily and essentially in the communication of spirituality. (LSV 1. 522)
1894
Analysis
This "communication of spirituality" was the unshakeable aim of the Swami's mission from start to finish. (LSV 1. 523)
1894
Analysis
Naren declared, unprompted by anyone, that he had a world mission. (LSV 1. 523)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji wrote from America on January 29, 1894, to Haridas Viharidas Desai, Dewan of Junagadh that he had renounced the world to fulfil the mission of his master. (LSV 1. 523)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji renounced the world with an over¬powering sense of divine mission. (LSV 1. 524)
1894
Analysis
During his wanderings over India the Swamiji noticed that when a society became stagnant, all kinds of tyranny developed within it. (LSV 1. 525)
1894
Analysis
Referring to the contemporary situation the Swami wrote to Pandit Sankarlal of Khetri on September 20, 1892: (LSV 1. 525)
1894
Analysis
Even while he was on his way to America the Swamiji's mind was occupied as much with the regeneration of India as with what he would see or say in a foreign land. (LSV 1. 525)
1894
Analysis
From Yokohama he wrote on July 10, 1893, to his Madras disciples and friends (LSV 1. 525)
1894
Analysis
In America, as in India, the urgency of raising his country's submerged millions was always in Swamiji's mind. His visit to an American reformatory inspired him with nation-building ideas. (LSV 1. 526)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji communicated some of these to his followers in Madras when, on August 20, 1893, he wrote to Alasinga from Breezy Meadows: (LSV 1. 526)
1894
Analysis
Across continents and oceans the Swami's mind was always awake at the sick-bed of his Motherland. (LSV 1. 528)
1894
Analysis
In a letter to Alasinga, dated November 2, 1893, Swamiji wrote: (LSV 1. 528, 530)
1894
Analysis
Among the Swamiji's ideas for the regeneration of India, those that chiefly found expression through the letters to his Indian followers. (LSV 1. 528, 530,531)
1894
Analysis
The main idea, on which pivoted all his other ideas, was the need for freedom of thought and action thoughout Indian society. This basic need he expounded with special clarity in a letter to his disciples in Madras, dated January 24, 1894: (LSV 1. 531)
1894
Analysis
If the Swamiji was planning a revolution, it was to be a God-centred revolution in which everyone was to share in the benefits. (LSV 1. 533)
1894
Analysis
In his letter of January 29, 1894, to Haridas Viharidas Desai the Swami wrote : (LSV 1. 533)
1894
Analysis
The Swamiji's call to action, his marching-orders addressed through certain individuals to the nation, reached India through his letters. (LSV 1. 534)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji poured even more energy and fire into the letters written to his brother-disciples at the Baranagore Math. (LSV 1. 534)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji had left the Baranagore Math in the middle of 1890 to wander through India. He had made it clear to his brothers that he wanted to be alone. (LSV 1. 535)
1894
Analysis
That steady current of written words was a spontaneous welling forth of the Swamiji's mind, heart, and soul. (LSV 1. 536)
1894
Analysis
In his first letter to the Baranagore Math from America Swamiji told of his vision and his plan. (LSV 1. 536)
1894
Analysis
In the summer of 1894 the Swami again wrote to his brother -disciples, now at the Alambazar Math, in regard to the immediate putting into effect of his plan: (LSV 1. 537)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji In his letters to the brother-disciples one recurring command was: Go from village to village, go from door to door of the poor! Awaken them, teach them, serve them, help them to grow and to solve the problems of their lives. (LSV 1. 538)
1894
Analysis
In a letter written in 1894 (probably in March or April) to Swami Akhandananda, the Swami reiterates this theme, combining it with his revolutionary ideas of monastic life: (LSV 1. 538)
1894
Analysis
These unconventional ideas of Hindu monasticism and its purpose flowed from the Swami's pen with bewildering force. (LSV 1. 539)
1894
Analysis
In his letters, such passages as the following could not but carry conviction into the hearts of the brothers who read them: (LSV 1. 539)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji calling the work of himself' and his brothers a "movement". (LSV 1. 541)
1894
Analysis
Early in 1894 he wrote to his brother-disciples: (LSV 1. 541)
1894
Analysis
Though the Swami instructed his brother-disciples not to insist on everyone's accepting Shri Ramakrishna, and though his own mission, as he saw it, was to spread "his [Shri Ramakrishna's] teachings, his life, and his message"-not his name- all over the world, he was, as we know, by no means unmindful of the Master's identity. (LSV 1. 542)
1894
Analysis
In the winter of 1894 he wrote to Swami Shivananda: (LSV 1. 542)
1894
Analysis
It was indeed Swami Vivekananda who revealed even to his brother-disciples the true proportions of Shri Ramakrishna's greatness (LSV 1. 543)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji was fully aware of the important role this new monasticism was to play in the regeneration of India. (LSV 1. 543)
1894
Analysis
To his brother-disciples Swamiji wrote in a letter dated 1894: (LSV 1. 544)
1894
Analysis
In his letters of 1894 to his brother-disciples, Swamiji emphasizes again and again the need to imbue the educated youth of the country with the ideal of monasticism. (LSV 1. 544)
1894
Analysis
In September 1894 Swamiji writes: (LSV 1. 545)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji's emphasis was on making possible the elevation of the women of India. (LSV 1. 546)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji wrote in a letter to Swami Shivananda in 1894: (LSV 1. 546)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji was convinced that women had a vital part to play in the mission of Shri Ramakrishna. (LSV 1. 547)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji wrote to his brother-disciples about his cinception of organization: (LSV 1. 547)
1894
Analysis
After the Calcutta Town Hall Meeting of September 5, 1894, Swamiji wrote to Swami Abhedananda: (LSV 1. 548)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji had written to Swami Ramakrishnananda at the beginning of 1894: (LSV 1. 548)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji knew for sure, as he himself wrote, that they would catch his fire: (LSV 1. 549)
1894
Analysis
The Swamiji's words proved true. The brother-disciples who read his letters did imbibe his spirit. (LSV 1. 550)
1894
Analysis
On October 22 Swamiji wrote to Swami Ramakrishnananda: (LSV 1. 550)
1894
Analysis
But he warned his brothers against too much newspaper blazoning of his cause. To Swami Shivananda he wrote late in 1894: (LSV 1. 550)
1894
Analysis
This described the Swamiji's own method of work. He wrote harsh things in his letters to India, but every word sprang from his love for Shri Ramakrishna, his brother-disciples, and for all mankind; so there was no mistaking that what he meant was for the good for all. (LSV 1. 550)
1894
Analysis
Meanwhile, the Swami's letters to his Madras disciples and others flowed forth. (LSV 1. 551)
1894
Analysis
To Alasinga Swamiji wrote on May 28, 1894: (LSV 1. 551)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji wrote in the summer of 1894 to his brothers at Alambazar Math. And in July to Alasinga: (LSV 1. 553)
1894
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Swamiji wrote to Alasinga on August 31, 1894: (LSV 1. 553)
1894
Analysis
On November 30, 1894, the Swami wrote again to Alasinga: (LSV 1. 553)
1894
Analysis
Further elucidating his idea of organized work, the Swamiji wrote to Haridas Viharidas Desai in November of 1894: (LSV 1. 554)
1894
Analysis
"Expansion is life; contraction is death." This was one of the energizing ideas that the Swami transmitted to the soul of his prostrate, stupor-bound country. Elaborating on it, he wrote to Manmathanath Bhattacharya on September 5, 1894: (LSV 1. 554)
1894
Analysis
The Swami was himself a powerful agent of God in breaking the "horrible crystallization of death" that had come over India. (LSV 1. 555)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji wrote to Haridas Viharidas Desai in September 1894: (LSV 1. 555)
1894
Analysis
This was the Swami's appraisal of the role of India's religion in the future of man. At the same time he was sensible of where India had erred and of how her faults were to be corrected. He wrote to Alasinga on September 29: (LSV 1. 555)
1894
Analysis
This was his most original contribution to modern Indian thought. (LSV 1. 556)
1894
Analysis
Swamiji's simple practical philosophy he stated to Alasinga on October 27, 1894. It is faithful to the highest truth, yet down to earth in its practicality: (LSV 1. 557)
1894
Analysis
The Swamiji went straight to the root of human ills and there applied remedial measures. (LSV 1. 557)
1894
Analysis
In this chapter we have seen how, in the midst of intense activity in America, the Swamjii set in motion his work in India; and have seen too the lines on which he wanted the work conducted. How it in fact developed after his return there in 1897 will be seen in later chapters. Meanwhile we must resume the interrupted account of his life and mission in the West. (LSV 1. 558)
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