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New York: Vedanta for world I (Jan 1895 - April 1895)
New York: Vedanta for world I (Jan 1895 - April 1895)
Total Records Found: 142
18 Jan 1895
CE
Swamiji has arrived in New York on Friday [January 18]. (ND 3.012)
Jan 1895
CE
Swamiji desired earnest minded followers whom he could teach freely, while living in a place of his own. (LSV 2.001)
Jan 1895
S
Although Mrs. Bull’s concern over Swamiji’s outspokenness was natural enough, it was unavailing. (ND 3.038)
Jan 1895
S
By the time Swamiji arrived at New York he felt a great urge to teach Americans and, simultaneously, as great an urge to live once again the unfettered life of a Hindu monk. (ND 3.039)
1895
S
Swamiji delivers a series of lectures at the Pouch Gallery, Brooklyn for Brooklyn Ethical Association [20 Jan- 25 feb] (LSV)
20 Jan 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to BULL MRS.OLE From BROOKLYN (CW SV 5.068)
20 Jan 1895
0
Ideals of womanhood-Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian (LSV ND 4.132)
20 Jan 1895
S
Swamiji delivered lectures before the Ethical Association in Brooklyn, which might be called "secular" and which was primarily on the subject of Indian culture and religion. (ND 3.045)
21 Jan 1895
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture IDEALS OF WOMANHOOD at Brooklyn Standard Union (CW SV 2.503)
21 Jan 1895
Letter
On January 21, 1895, he wrote to Mrs. Bull a long letter of sympathy on the death of her father and added this paragraph of information: (ND 3.016)
23 Jan 1895
Letter
Two days later, carrying out his duties as Swamiji's secretary, Landsberg wrote to Isabelle McKindley, a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Hale-one of the four "Hale sisters." His letter, from which we learn something of what was taking place in New York, read in part: (ND 3.017)
24 Jan 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to MCKINDLEY ISABELLE From NEW YORK (CW SV 8.333)
Jan 1895
CE
By the third week of January Swamiji came to stay for a time in New York, to hold an intensive course of classes. (LSV 1.521)
Jan 1895
CE
It is touching to find the Swami teaching Americans in tile fashion of the ancient gurus. (LSV 2.002)
26 Jan 1895
CE
The parlor lectures that Swamiji gave in the early part of this season must have greatly helped to increase the attendance at his classes. (ND 3.027)
27 Jan 1895
S
on Sunday January 27, Swamiji established his headquarters in the rooms that Landsberg had rented at 54 West Thirty-third Street. (ND 3.018 LSV 2.001)
Jan 1895
Notes
About 54 West Thirty-third Street. (ND 3.018)
Jan 1895
Notes
For the sake of convenience, as well as for total independence, Swamiji moved from Guernsey's house to a new head quarter at 54 west, Thirty -Third street. (ND 3.021)
Jan 1895
Notes
But whatever its lack of elegance; Swamiji was content with the new place. (ND 3.022)
Jan 1895
Notes
Regularly every day Swamiji trained some chosen followers to quiet the mind in the silence of meditation. (LSV 2.003)
Jan 1895
CE
The description of the Swamiji written by an Edger G. Beall, M.D. for the Phrenological Journal of New York, which was reproduced in part in the Indian Mirror of October 5, 1895: (LSV 2. 004)
Jan 1895
CE
The Swamiji's New York classes, held during the first part of 1895, dealt largely with Raja-yoga and Jnana-yoga. (LSV 2. 005)
28 Jan 1895
CE
Swamiji opened his classes most probably on Monday, January 28. (ND 3.023)
Jan 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to ALASINGA PERUMAL From NEW YORK (CW SV 5.074)
29 Jan 1895
CE
The class held on Tuesday, January 29, was probably Swamiji's second, there was already a considerable increase in attendance. (ND 3.025)
Jan 1895
S
Miss MacLeod had her first vision during Swamiji's lecture on Gita. (ND 3.026)
Jan 1895
CE
These Brooklyn "conversations," to which an admission fee of fifty cents was charged. (ND 3.027)
Jan 1895
ME
But Swamiji's parlor lectures in New York City must have drawn even more people to his lodgings. (ND 3.027 LSV 2.010)
Jan 1895
Notes
When any philosophy, any religion, can do this for human beings in this age of stress and strain, and when, added to that, it intensifies their faith in God and increases their sympathies for their kind and gives them a confident joy in the thought of other lives to come, it is good and great religion. (LSV 2.011)
Jan 1895
Notes
Apart from his meditation practices and meditative states, Swamiji was often lost to the outer world. (LSV 2.011)
Jan 1895
Notes
In spite of the appreciation of the beauty of his character and of the grandeur of his mission and teachings, the path before the Swamiji was never a smooth one. (LSV 2.012)
30 Jan 1895
CE
Mrs. Bull did not leave New York without seeing Swamiji again after their “long fight.” (ND 3.037)
Jan 1895
Notes
Swamiji found that some of his helpers, devoted and well meaning as they might be, interfered in his method of carrying out his work. (LSV 2.016)
1 Feb 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MARY From NEW YORK (CW SV 5.070 ND 3.033 LSV 2. 017)
1 Feb 1895
Letter
During the first week of his New York classes Swamiji gave another parlor lecture on the night of Friday, February I. (ND 3.030)
1 Feb 1895
Notes
On February 1 he wrote to his good Friend Professor John Henry Wright, whose knowledge of ancient history was encyclopedic, for bibliographical help. His letter, not heretofore published, read: (ND 3.059)
1 Feb 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to WRIGHT PROF.JOHN H From NEW YORK (CW SV 9.052)
Feb 1895
CE
Swamiji's having spoken "only in the spirit of his Master" and having "a lovely spirit"about him "now," implies that there were times when Swamiji had had something different from "a lovely spirit." (ND 3.031)
Feb 1895
Letter
Reply of Mary Hale. (ND 3.031)
1 Feb 1895
Letter
Mary Hale may have been momentarily stunned by the above blast from Swamiji; but what “sister” of his would not in her heart “cheer those that dare dash this false God, society, onto the earth and trample on its unmitigated hypocrisy” ? And to be sure, she would cheer. (ND 3.036)
2 Feb 1895
Notes
In his letter of February 2 to Mrs. Bull, Landsberg also mentioned that Swamiji was "now writing a very learned essay on Reincarnation for the Metaphysical journal." (ND 3.059)
2 Feb 1895
Letter
Indeed, she had at heart even the welfare of Swamiji’s disciples: almost immediately upon arriving home she wrote to Leon Landsberg, dispatching to him an overcoat that had belonged to her father. Landsberg’s reply read in part: (ND 3.037)
3 Feb 1895
0
Buddhism as Understood in India (at BEA) (ND 4.132)
4 Feb 1895
News Reports
News report on Swamiji TRUE BUDDHISM in Brooklyn Standard Union, dtd. 04.02.1895 at New York (CW SV 2.507 ND 2.272)
4 Feb 1895
News Reports
News report on Swamiji TRUE BUDDHISM in New York World dtd. 04.02.1895 briefly mentiond the lecture on Buddhism: (ND 2.272)
9 Feb 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to SANYAL VAIKUNTHNATH From NEW YORK (CW SV 6.298)
14 Feb 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to BULL MRS.OLE From NEW YORK (CW SV 6.299 LSV 2. 022)
14 Feb 1895
S
Swamiji had declined with thanks Mrs. Bull's offer of help in his letter of February 14. (ND 3.063)
15 Feb 1895
Poem
AN INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE- New york (CW SV 8.162 ND 3.036)
Feb 1895
S
Oftentimes Swamiji was lost in meditation. (ND 3.039)
Feb 1895
S
One can well imagine that to attend Swamiji's classes was no simple matter. (ND 3.040)
Feb 1895
S
As far as can be determined, Swamiji at first held classes every morning from eleven till one o'clock. (ND 3.040)
Feb 1895
S
Most of the nine sections of "Discourses on Jnana-Yoga," as published in volume eight of the Complete Works, were taken down in longhand by Miss Ellen Waldo at 54 West Thirty-third Street in the early part of 1895. (ND 3.041)
Feb 1895
S
Here are a few passages of Jnana yoga: (ND 3.041)
Feb 1895
S
If the "Discourses on Jnana Yoga" are in fact notes of Swamiji's classes held in the winter and spring of 1895, then they are among the first substantial records we have of his classes in the West. (ND 3.044)
Feb 1895
S
Though the classes were crowded, the collections or contributions were sometimes not large enough to pay expenses. (ND 3.044)
Feb 1895
L
How many "secular" lectures Swamiji gave in a hired hall in New York is not known at present. (ND 3.045 LSV 2. 009)
Feb 1895
L
The public lectures were not of much financial help. (ND 3.047)
Feb 1895
L
In connection with these lectures, classes and private lessons on the following subjects will be given. Those desiring to attend can arrange hours and terms with Miss Farmer. (ND 3.049)
Feb 1895
L
Swamiji’s two ‘Barber House” lectures, for which he received, almost two months after giving the second one, a check for $ 100 from Miss Farmer. (ND 3.050 LSV 2.008)
Feb 1895
L
He spoke also before public gatherings, notably before the People's Church in New York (known also as the Dixon Society), whose progressive leader, the Reverend Thomas Dixon, had recently resigned from an orthodox Baptist pastorate to establish his own independent church "on a broad and popular platform". (LSV 2.008)
Feb 1895
L
The harmony of religions was a subject Swamiji spoke on again and again during his first visit in America. (ND 3.051)
Feb 1895
L
In his Hartford lecture Swamiji pursued this line of thought, pointing out concepts common to all living religions of the world. (ND 3.053)
17 Feb 1895
CE
Swamiji started his classes in Miss Corbin's conservatory at 425 Fifth Avenue not on Sunday, February 17, as first planned, but on the Sunday following. (ND 3.048)
Feb 1895
L
Meanwhile, Swamiji had given other outside talks. (ND 3.049)
Feb 1895
CE
Swamiji wrote three articles during this season, each of which reveals a different aspect of his thought. (ND 3.053)
Feb 1895
CE
The Swamiji has written an interesting article on Ether for Dr. Gurnsey’s medical Journal. (ND 3.054)
Feb 1895
Writing
The article read: (ND 3.055)
Feb 1895
Notes
To convince Western readers, Swamiji quoted from Fichte, Schopenhauer. (ND 3.060)
18 Feb 1895
Notes
A meal of “rice and lentils or barley” was a great relief to Swamiji. (ND 3.063)
Feb 1895
Notes
It is small wonder that Swamiji began to avoid all dinner invitations. (ND 3.065 LSV 2.003)
Feb 1895
Notes
To judge from Swamiji's letters written in February and March, his life with Landsberg had started out harmoniously. (ND 3.066)
Feb 1895
Letter
But inspired teacher though he was a prophet whose utterances were themselves scriptures. (LSV 2. 006)
Feb 1895
Analysis
Swamiji was a man who put into practice what he preached. He was a scientist and a mystic in one. (LSV 2. 007)
Feb 1895
Notes
it seems clear that Swamiji had done his best to admonish his disciple. (ND 3.070)
Feb 1895
Notes
Mrs. Bull and Miss Hamlen corresponded on subject. (ND 3.074)
24 Feb 1895
News reports
On Sunday, February 24, the president of the Circle registered a protest through the pages of the Daily Eagle, which read : (ND 2. 279)
25 Feb 1895
News reports
For the newspapers a disturbance such as this was always welcome. The Daily Standard Union was quick to take advantage of Mrs. McKeen's animadversions and on February 25 printed the following: (ND 2. 283)
25 Feb 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to MCKINDLEY ISABELLE From NEW YORK (CW SV 5.074)
Feb 1895
0
India's gift to the world (At BEA) (ND 4.133)
Feb 1895
0
Swamiji's lecture on the exalted position of Hindu women and widows delivered at BEA, infuriated ladies of Ramabai circle who thieved on the charity to mistreated Hindu widows. In the controversy that ensured stoked on the side of Ramabai circle by missionaries, Dr. Lewis Janes of BEA defended Swamiji stoutly writing letters to news papers. (ND)
25 Feb 1895
Notes
what had aroused Mrs. McKeen's passionate and insistent declaration that Hindu widows did undergo suffering? (ND 2. 288)
26 Feb 1895
News reports
On February 26 the Brooklyn Times printed a brief report of Swamiji's lecture. (ND 2. 293)
27 Feb 1895
News Reports
News report on Swamiji INDIA'S GIFT TO THE WORLD in Brooklyn Standard Union, dtd. 27.02.1895 at New York (CW SV 2.510 ND 2. 290)
27 Feb 1895
News Reports
News report on Swamiji CHILD WIDOWS OF INDIA in Daily Eagle, dtd. 27.02.1895 (CW SV 2.513 ND 2.294)
Feb 1895
News Reports
The above report was Swamiji's answer to the question regarding widows. (ND 2.295)
Feb 1895
Writing
Swamiji's article THE ETHER appeared anonymously in the February 1895 issue of the New York Medical Times, a prestigious monthly medical journal founded and edited by Dr. Egbert Guernsey (CW SV 9.285 ND 3.055)
1 Mar 1895
Writing
REINCARNATION (MARCH 1895) (CW SV 4.257)
Mar 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to ALASINGA PERUMAL From (CW SV 7.487)
6 Mar 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to ALASINGA PERUMAL From USA (CW SV 5.075)
6 Mar 1895
News reports
Indeed, Dr. Janes lost no time in coming to Swamiji's defense. Having read Mrs. McKeen's statement in the Eagle, he at once wrote a letter to that paper. Although the following was dated erroneously March 3 and published on March 6, it had actually been written and sent on February 24.: (ND 2. 285)
6 Mar 1895
Notes
Whether the editors of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle were biased in Favor of the Ramabai Circle, or whether they just delighted in keeping the controversy alive is a moot point; but, in either case, they managed to confuse things. (ND 2.295)
6 Mar 1895
Notes
It was on March 6 that the Eagle finally thought fit to publish Dr. Janes's letter of February 24, in which he had pointed out, referring to the lecture on "Ideal Womanhood," that Swamiji had not mentioned the condition of Hindu widows. The date of this letter was falsified to read March 3, making it seem that Dr. Janes had written it after Swamiji's lecture of February 25, in which he had spoken of Hindu widows in answer to a question. (ND 2.295)
Mar 1895
Notes
Mrs. McKeen was quick to take advantage of the false position in which Janes had been placed and forthwith provided the Eagle with more copy. (ND 2.295)
8 Mar 1895
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture SOUL , GOD AND RELIGION at Hartford, CT (CW SV 1.317)
10 Mar 1895
News reports
On Sunday, March 10, the following article appeared in Brooklyn Daily Eagle: (ND 2.296)
10 Mar 1895
Notes
Having read the indefatigable Mrs. McKeen's remarks in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle of March 10, Dr. Janes felt again constrained to make Swamiji's position clear to the reading public. Although in some important respects he failed to present this position correctly, his effort was valiant. (ND 2. 300)
Mar 1895
Notes
The effect of paper war. Mrs. McKeen was suffering from an unhealed wound that had been caused by the Hindu dislike of Christian proselytizing. (ND 2.299)
Mar 1895
S
As has been said, the controversy provided excellent copy for the Brooklyn newspapers and also excellent publicity for the Ramabai Circle. (ND 2. 300)
11 Mar 1895
News reports
On the evening following his second Barber House lecture Swamiji gave a talk at Unity Hall in Hartford, Connecticut (one hundred miles or so by train from New York City). (ND 3.050 LSV 2. 009)
11 Mar 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MRS.G W From NEW YORK (CW SV 9.055)
12 Mar 1895
CE
Mary Hale seems not to have written to Swamiji for a few weeks after this exchange. (ND 3.037)
14 Mar 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MRS.G W From NEW YORK (CW SV 9.055)
15 Mar 1895
Notes
Professor Wright no doubt sent on a list of books some of which Swamiji may have found in one or another of New York's three libraries-the Astor, the Lenox, or the Mercantile. (ND 3.060)
16 Mar 1895
News reports
On March 16, the Standard Union devoted two and a half columns to Ramabai's life and work. The headlines, which are enough to quote, read: (ND 2. 300)
16 Mar 1895
Poem
MY PLAY IS DONE - New York (CW SV 6.175)
17 Mar 1895
News reports
The following letter, written on March 12, appeared in the Daily Eagle of March 17: (ND 2. 300)
17 Mar 1895
S
Swamiji's decision to donate the proceeds of his next (and extra) lecture in Brooklyn to Sasipada Banerjee was his own. (ND 2. 302)
18 Mar 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MRS.G W From NEW YORK (CW SV 9.053 ND 3.064 LSV 2.003, 2.007, 2.009)
20 Mar 1895
Letter
And in another letter, dated March 20, 1895, Mrs. Bagley writes to the same friend, who was evidently hearing a great deal of gossip and was inclined to listen: (ND 1.453 LSV 1.519)
21 Mar 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to BULL MRS.OLE From NEW YORK (CW SV 6.301 ND 2.304 LSV 2.008, 2.016)
21 Mar 1895
Letter
The following day (March 21,1895) Helen Bagley lent an indignant voice to Swamiji's defense. To the same Mrs. Smith she wrote: (ND 1.454 LSV 1.520)
27 Mar 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to MCKINDLEY ISABELLE From NEW YORK (CW SV 5.075)
Mar 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to GURUBHAI From USA (CW SV 6.322)
4 Apr 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to ALASINGA PERUMAL From USA (CW SV 5.077)
6 Apr 1895
News reports
Although Dr. Janes had attempted to clarify Swamiji's position, the Ramabai Circle became only further aroused. Mrs. McKeen's next interview with the Daily Eagle appeared on April 6 and read as follows: (ND 2.304)
7 Apr 1895
News reports
The same day on which this extraordinary interview appeared in the Eagle, the Brooklyn Times ran the following announcement: (ND 2.310)
8 Apr 1895
News Reports
News report on Swamiji's address on 'Some Customs of The Hindus' in Brooklyn Standard Union, dtd. 08.04.1895. (CW SV 2.515 ND 2.310 LSV 1.520)
8 Apr 1895
News Reports
News report on Swamiji's address on 'Some Customs Of The Himdus' in Daily Eagle, dtd. 08.04.1895. (ND 2.314)
Apr 1895
S
To judge from the above reports, Swamiji had not given a point-by-point reply to Mrs. McKeen's seemingly documented contentions, and at this point Dr. Janes once again took up his pen. (ND 2.314)
Apr 1895
0
Swamiji delivered an impressive and powerful lecture on Hindu women in reply to the slanders of Ramabai circle and missionaries which finally laid rest to their malice. This was Swamiji's last serious battle against missionaries (ND)
Apr 1895
Analysis
In Hindu society the widows represented an informal order of nuns. (ND 2.322)
Apr 1895
Analysis
Child marriage was, of course, in itself frowned upon by Swamiji. (ND 2.322)
Apr 1895
Analysis
About the economic status of Hindu widows (ND 2.323)
Apr 1895
Analysis
one of his most urgent plans for the regeneration of India was the education of Hindu women-whether widowed, married, or unmarried. (ND 2.323)
Apr 1895
Analysis
Swamiji had made it clear, that such help was worse than none, for it sapped the self respect of the nation which received it and thus served to ruin rather than to restore. (ND 2.324)
Apr 1895
Analysis
Swamiji's disapproval of the methods of Ramabai was based on the fact that she had deliberately catered to the psychological urge of the American women. (ND 2.325)
Apr 1895
Analysis
Swamiji never criticized Ramabai, but he could never have sanctioned her methods of obtaining help for her work. (ND 2.325)
Apr 1895
Analysis
Swamiji's main reason for supporting Banerjee rather than Ramabai was that Banerjee was a Hindu trying to help Hindu widows and, as such, was worthy of help. (ND 2.326)
Apr 1895
Analysis
Swamiji would accept only such help for his country as was given in sympathy and respect. (ND 2.326)
Apr 1895
Analysis
Whether Mrs. Mc Keen could have understood these things or not, Swamiji had made no effort to explain them to her or her friends in his lecture of April 7. (ND 2.327)
Apr 1895
CE
Swami Vivekananda has the ability to reach the collective mind at its unconscious level and there influence it. (ND 2.328)
Apr 1895
CE
Swami's scheduled lectures before the, Brooklyn Ethical Association marked the close of the period of his mission of lecture tour. (LSV 1.521)
Apr 1895
0
Landsberg offended as some of Swamiji's followers dislike him assisting to manage classes. To ease the tension among his followers, Swamiji asked him to stop assisting him and be only a student in the class. Plans were afoot for Swamiji to move to some more fashionable quarters but he decided to leave fop Ridgley manor for rest (ND)
9 Apr 1895
Notes
The next day Swamiji announced that he was not moving to the Moores', that he was leaving town. (ND 3.072)
Apr 1895
CE
The circumstances of the meeting were told by Josephine MacLeod in her memoirs. (ND 3. 076)
Apr 1895
Notes
Swamiji would be away from New York for ten days. (ND 3.073)
10 Apr 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to LEGGETT FRANCIS From NEW YORK (CW SV 8.334 LSV 2.008)
11 Apr 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to BULL MRS.OLE From NEW YORK (CW SV 6.302 LSV 2. 017)
11 Apr 1895
Letter
Swamiji's letter to RAMAKRISHNANANDA From USA (CW SV 6.304)
13 Apr 1895
CE
Swamiji left New York to see Mr. Leggett at Ridgley Manor. (ND 3. 073)
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