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Northern California: San Fransisco (Feb - Apr 1900)
Northern California: San Fransisco (Feb - Apr 1900)
Total Records Found: 268
22 Feb 1900
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Swamiji reaches San Francisco in the evening (ND 5.307 LSV 2. 507)
Feb 1900
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The world to which Swamiji had come was a very different one from that of southern California. (ND 5.308)
Feb 1900
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About city of San Francisco at that time. (ND 5.308)
Feb 1900
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About the people of San Francisco. (ND 5.309)
Feb 1900
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The thought of working in San Francisco had been in Swamiji’s mind as early as December 27 and had perhaps become a definite plan shortly after he moved to Pasadena, at which time Mrs. Hansbrough had conceived the idea of becoming his advance agent. (ND 5.310 LSV 2. 507)
Feb 1900
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Finally around the middle of February, Mrs. Hansbrough traveled north in the role of advance agent. (ND 5.311 LSV 2. 507)
Feb 1900
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Mrs. Hansbrough arranged for Swamiji free lodging and Boarding at Home of Truth in San Franscisco. (ND 5.310 LSV 2. 507)
Feb 1900
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More than two weeks before her departure she and Miss MacLeod had discussed whether or not Swamiji’s first lecture in nothern California should be free. (ND 5.312)
23 Feb 1900
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Swamiji's first lecture at San Francisco, organised by Mrs. Hansbrough, at Golden Gate Hall (ND 5. 314 LSV 2. 507)
23 Feb 1900
News reports
From the following write ups which appeared the next morning in the local newspapers one would scarcely have guessed it. (ND 5. 315)
Feb 1900
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Swamiji was now ready, and certainly willing, to speak before the Congress of Religions in Oakland. (ND 5. 316)
Feb 1900
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About Oakland city at that time (in 1900) (ND 5. 316)
Feb 1900
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About the people of Oakland city. (ND 5. 317)
Feb 1900
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The schedule of Swamiji's lectures was conceived by the Revernd B. Fay Mills. (ND 5. 318)
Feb 1900
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About Revernd B. Fay Mills. (ND 5. 318 LSV 2. 507)
Feb 1900
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The second series of the Congress of Religions created a rumbling among the Oakland clergy. They were against Putting a Hindoo in the pulpit in the name of progress. (ND 5. 320)
Feb 1900
News reports
News Report appeared in the Enquirer (ND 5. 321)
24 Feb 1900
News reports
News Report appeared in the Enquirer of 24th February,1900. (ND 5. 322)
24 Feb 1900
News reports
On February 24, the Oakland Tribune added its own heralding news of Swamiji. This announcement read respectively: (ND 5. 322)
25 Feb 1900
News reports
The second announcement in San Francisco Buletin. (ND 5. 324)
25 Feb 1900
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About First Unitarian Church. (ND 5. 324)
25 Feb 1900
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Lectured at Oakland "Congress of Religion". An unprecedented crowd gathered to listen to him. Hundreds were turned away for the lack of room. The organiser of the Congress Rev. Mills had spoke at Chicago Parliament and was highly appreciative of Swamiji. (ND 5. 321 ND 5.325 LSV 2. 508)
25 Feb 1900
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But let us see him through the eyes of one who was present. (ND 5.325)
25 Feb 1900
Notes
Notes of Swamiji's lecture THE CLAIMS OF VEDANTA ON THE MODERN WORLD 25.2.1900 at (CW SV 8.231)
26 Feb 1900
News reports
News Reports in Oakland Times and San Francisco Call. (ND 5. 328)
Feb 1900
Notes
When at the beginning of 1900 he had invited the great and famous Hindu monk to speak at the Unitarian church in Oakland (ND 5. 335 LSV 2. 508)
28 Feb 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture THE VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY & CHRISTIANITY at Oakland (CW SV 6.046)
Feb 1900
Notes
Thirty-five years later in the temple of the Vedanta Society of San Francisco, Mr. Allan, then president of the Society, recounted his memories of the great Swami. (ND 5. 341 LSV 2. 508)
Feb 1900
Notes
In Ida Ansell’s memoirs of Swamiji as published in Reminiscences of Smami Vivekananda one finds an addition to the above: (ND 5. 342)
Feb 1900
Notes
During the course of the interview Mr. Applegarth, then eighty-four, recalled the impression the Swami had made upon his listeners so many years before: (ND 5. 343)
Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to TURIYANANDA From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.507)
Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to TURIYANANDA From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.505)
2 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to MACLEOD JOSEFINE From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 9.133 ND 5.345)
2 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MARY From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.493)
2 Mar 1900
News reports
There was, to be sure, one complaint, which the Enquirer of March 2 printed in conjunction with two firm replies: (ND 5. 335)
2 Mar 1900
News reports
The article continued with the church’s staunch rejoinder: (ND 5. 336)
Mar 1900
News reports
Judge John W. Stetson, who is one of the prominent members of the Unitarian Church and president of the Starr King Fraternity, spoke of "C.J.P.’s" protest against the Hindoo, Swami Vivekananda, having a hearing, as follows: (ND 5. 337)
Mar 1900
News reports
As far as the Oakland papers were concerned, this ended the controversy. (ND 5. 338)
Mar 1900
News reports
After airing both sides of the short-lived controversy over Swamiji, the Enquirer of March 2 went on in the same article to a report of his second lecture at the Unitarian church. (ND 5. 338)
Mar 1900
Notes
In volume six of the Complete Works, under the heading "The Vedanta Philosophy and Christianity," one can find notes of this lecture, taken down by Franklin Sprague ("Frank") Rhodehamel.Mr. Rhodehamel was a better listener than the Enquirer reporter. (ND 5. 339)
Mar 1900
Notes
The ideas contained in this lecture were clearly similar to those in "The Ideal of a Universal Religion." (ND 5. 340)
Mar 1900
Notes
Swamiji was pleased with his reception in Oakland. (ND 5. 341)
3 Mar 1900
News reports
Announcement of Swamiji's lecture in "The Examiner" (ND 5. 349)
4 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to BULL MRS.OLE From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.494 ND 5.341 LSV 2. 508)
4 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to SISTER NIVEDITA From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 6.428)
4 Mar 1900
Notes
RELIGION IS REALIZATION (CW SV 6.082)
4 Mar 1900
Notes
RELIGION IS SELF ABNEGATION (CW SV 6.083)
4 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji wrote a letter to Sister Christine in which one finds an indication of his mood in those days¬ neither dark nor bright (in part). (ND 5. 346)
Mar 1900
News reports
The first series, which began on the evening of Wednesday, March 7, was announced in the Enquirer of the same date with an article whose concise heading attested clearly to his quick renown in the city: (ND 5. 344 LSV 2. 509)
7 Mar 1900
Notes
Swamiji's notes on THE LAWS OF LIFE & DEATH (CW SV 8.235)
Mar 1900
S
This lecture created a sensation among the church-going populace of Oakland. (LSV 2. 509)
7 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to BULL MRS.OLE From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.495 ND 5. 354)
7 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to MACLEOD JOSEFINE From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.498)
Mar 1900
News reports
News Reports in The social column of the 'San Francisco Call' (ND 5. 345)
Mar 1900
S
But first there was more work to be done, and in San Francisco that work was slow in getting started. His guess had proved correct. "They come in crowds when there is a free lecture and very few when there is something to pay". (ND 5. 348)
Mar 1900
News reports
The announcement under SUNDAY MEETINGS in the Classified Ad sections of the "Chronicle" and the "Examiner". (ND 5. 349)
8 Mar 1900
Notes
Swamiji's notes on THE REALITY & SHADOW (CW SV 8.237)
8 Mar 1900
Notes
Notes of Swamiji's lecture THE REALITY & SHADOW at (CW SV 6.092)
9 Mar 1900
CE
A room was rented for Swamiji in San Francisco at Turk Street and Mrs. Hansbrough and Mrs. Aspinall came to live there as his secretaries, housekeepers, cook, press agents and general keeper of accounts (ND 5. 354 LSV 2.)
Mar 1900
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The detailed description of the flat. (ND 5.356)
Mar 1900
CE
Not untill Swamiji moved into the Turk Street flat and hold classes there, deciding to remain for at least a month more in San Francisco, that his work assumed a definite and distinctive character. Now lectures markedly assumed the emphasis that distinguishes the main body of his work on the Pacific Coast: the emphasis on the essential divinity of Man (ND 5. 359 LSV 2. 511)
1900
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According to Swamiji the last two years of struggle was momentous in his life; one such send him to the Thakur and the other brought him to America; the last one was even greater then them. Now he is feeling calm. (LSV 2.)
Mar 1900
S
Swamiji started holding classes in his flat at 1719 Turk Street in San Francisco somewhere in second week of March,1900. (ND 6.001)
Mar 1900
S
Generally Swamuji held morning classes,but also held at least a few afternoon classes as well is almost certain. (ND 6. 001)
Mar 1900
S
Mr. Frank Rhodehamel, whose first interview took place one morning before a class, has given us a vivid picture of Swamiji's swift passage from dining room to front parlor. (ND 6. 002)
Mar 1900
S
Two incedents of western difficulty with crossed legged sitting. (ND 6. 003)
Mar 1900
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Mr. Rhodehamel recalled, still reliving those wonderful days as he wrote: (ND 6. 005)
Mar 1900
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Two occations Mrs.Hansbrough recollects Swamiji raising his mind in to the state of bliss and the tendency to raise the same bliss in other's mind. (ND 6. 005)
Mar 1900
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Another account by one who attended a class of Swamiji's and who felt the power of his meditation is to be found in Prabuddha Bharata of March 1927. (ND 6. 007)
Mar 1900
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Speaking of the morning classes, "Swamiji would discourse on some sacred book. (ND 6. 008)
Mar 1900
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The scope and purpose of Swamiji's classes, more concrete is the glimpse Mr. Rhodehamel gives in his earlier memoirs published in the Life. (ND 6. 009)
Mar 1900
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A brief note with the heading "Class lessons in meditation by Swami Vivekananda" and the date "Monday, March 26, 1900." (ND 6. 009)
Mar 1900
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The value of Swamiji's small classes lay more in his direct, living contact with each person who sat near him than in the details of his instruction. (ND 6. 011)
Mar 1900
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But if crowds failed to attend Swamiji’s series on India, those who did attend were enthralled. (ND 5. 350)
Mar 1900
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The date of this move is not unimportant in the story, of his life in San Francisco. (ND 5. 351)
1900
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Yet he well recognized that while Vedanta was the answer to present day problems, it was not an easy answer, thus he questioned its universal acceptance: (LSV 2. 512)
Mar 1900
S
Swamiji's anxiety on financial arrangement for passage back to India and other commitmemts. (ND 5. 352)
Mar 1900
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Swamiji's concern over the welfare of his mother Bhuvaneswari devi. (ND 5. 353)
Mar 1900
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In the Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda one finds the following glimpse of her as given by a Manmatha Nath Ganguli. The year was 1901 or 1902 the place, Belur Math. (ND 5. 353)
Mar 1900
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Swamiji expressed his concern about his mother in a letter to Mrs. Bull. (ND 5. 354)
Mar 1900
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Edith Allan, the wife of Thomas Allan, was the other person who we know talked privately with Swamiji. (ND 6. 014)
10 Mar 1900
S
Mrs. Allan arrived at the Turk Street flat at the appointed time (nine o'clock, according to one account) on what must have been the morning of March 10. (ND 6. 015)
Mar 1900
S
She came the following morning and perhaps one or two mornings after that. (ND 6. 016)
Mar 1900
S
Yet he continued to be extremely gracious to her. (ND 6. 016)
Mar 1900
S
One more incident in one of the rough drafts of her memoirs (ND 6. 017)
Mar 1900
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Once Mrs. Allan asked Swamiji about his triumphant reception when he returned to India in 1897 (ND 6. 017)
11 Mar 1900
Lecture
Swamiji’s evening lectures, to which admission was charged, were given in groups, or series, of three. (ND 5.378)
11 Mar 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's first lecture of Sunday series in San Franscico beginning on March 11,was on " Christ's Message to the World". (ND 5.378)
11 Mar 1900
S
According to the information given in the city’s Sunday morning papers of March 11, Swami delivered "Christ’s Message to the World" at Golden Gate Hall that morning at eleven o’clock. (ND 5.378)
11 Mar 1900
Notes
Notes of Swamiji's lecture CHRIST'S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD delivered in San Fransisco; recorded by Frank Rhodehamel. (CW SV 9.271 ND 5.379)
Mar 1900
Notes
The only reference to Swamiji’s lecture on Christ is a passing mention of it in the unpublished memories of Mrs. George Roorbach. (ND 5.379)
Mar 1900
Notes
A portion of the brief reminiscences of Christina Albers may be pertinent to this same lecture. (ND 5.380)
Mar 1900
Notes
Because of bad cold Swamiji could not remain present that Sunday afternoon at one of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst’s musicales in Berkeley. (ND 5.381)
Mar 1900
Notes
Swamiji did not go to Mrs.Hearst's musicale for some other reason. (ND 5.381)
12 Mar 1900
Notes
Notes of Swamiji's lecture WAY TO SALVATION 12.03.1900 at (CW SV 8.239)
12 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to BRAHMANANDA From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.499)
12 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MARY From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.500)
12 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to BULL MRS.OLE From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.501)
12 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to SISTER CHRISTINE From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 9.135)
Mar 1900
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Among the lectures that were preliminary in both time and nature to Swamiji’s main work in San Francisco one can include his first series of three lectures at Wendte Hall in Oakland, given on the evenings of March 7, 8, and 12. (ND 5.361)
Mar 1900
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In March and April all of Swamiji's evening lectures in San Francisco were given in the Red Men's Building at 320 Post Street, which like Union Square Hall was in the center of town. (ND 6. 045)
13 Mar 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture THE IMPORTANCE OF PSYCHOLOGY at San Fransisco (CW SV 6.028)
14 Mar 1900
News reports
At the complition of the well-attened Hall series the following item appeared in the Enquerer of March 14: (ND 5.363)
Mar 1900
S
The purpose of Swamiji’s lectures on India was to destroy prejudice. (ND 5.364)
Mar 1900
I
One looks to the old Oakland papers to see if anything in particular had called forth a sharp reply from Swamiji. (ND 5.364)
Mar 1900
S
Vitriolic condemnation of his country in the name of Christian service never failed to anger Swamiji; but his anger was not on behalf of his countrymen alone. (ND 5.365)
14 Mar 1900
S
Swamiji's general indifference to sightseeing as a pastime, he did go to see a ship being launched at one of the city's shipyards. (ND 6. 036)
15 Mar 1900
Notes
Notes of Swamiji's lecture THE POWERS OF THE MIND at San Fransisco (CW SV 6.125)
16 Mar 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture CONCENTRATION (16.03.1900) at THE WASHINGTON HALL, San Francisco (CW SV 4.218)
16 Mar 1900
Notes
During the third lecture Ida Ansell took shorthand notes. Yet her notes are much more full than Frank Rhodehamel's of this same lecture, and from her transcripts one can follow the gist of his talk. (ND 6.053)
Mar 1900
Notes
Miss Albers and Mrs. Allan on Swamiji's wit, his vibrant life, his many-faceted attrctiveness. (ND 6.055)
Mar 1900
Notes
Everything about Swamiji was expressive of the greatness of his personality, and that personality was as startling a revelation to his listeners as were his teachings. (ND 6.056)
Mar 1900
Notes
From the rough drafts of Mrs. Allan's memoirs one learns that during the question and answer period following Swamiji's lecture on "Concentration" someone in the audience requested that he speak on philosophy in his next series: A murmur of agreement arose from the audience. "So you want philosophy," Swamiji replied. "Then you must be prepared for cannon balls." "We got them," Mrs. Allan remarked . (ND 6.058)
Mar 1900
S
Swamiji had been working steadily and successfully in San Francisco. (LSV 2. 510)
Mar 1900
S
At some point during his stay in San Francisco he spent at least two days with a Dr. Albert D. Hiller, a surgeon and homeopathic physician whose home and offices were at 1011 Sutter Street, in a residential block between Larkin and Hyde. (ND 6. 038)
Mar 1900
S
At some point during his stay in San Francisco he spent at least two days with a Dr. Albert D. Hiller, a surgeon and homeopathic physician whose home and offices were at 1011 Sutter Street, in a residential block between Larkin and Hyde. (ND 6. 038)
Mar 1900
S
Swamiji's main work now began, and it began, so to speak, with a bang. (ND 6. 047)
17 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to LEGGETT MRS. From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 7.521 LSV 2. 510 ND 6. 028)
17 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to LEGGETT MRS. From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 7.522)
17 Mar 1900
S
Indeed, wherever the Swami went in the West, there seemed to be hands and hearts ready to help him. (LSV 2. 510)
17 Mar 1900
S
During most of March and the first week or so of April, the Swami held classes daily, and often twice daily, in the two adjoining parlours of the Turk Street flat. Here he settled down to teaching the practice of meditation to those who would pursue such spiritual training with serious intent. (LSV 2. 510)
17 Mar 1900
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The following night there was barely standing room, and Swamiji kept his word. (ND 6. 047)
17 Mar 1900
ME
Once at the conclusion of a lecture he thus announced his next lecture: "Tomorrow night I shall lecture on 'The Mind: Its Powers and Possibilities'. Come to hear me. I have something to say to you, I shall do a little bomb-throwing." (LSV 2. 517 ND 6. 047)
17 Mar 1900
S
Frank Rhodehamel's memoirs are not his only contribution to our knowledge of Swamiji's lectures in San Francisco. (ND 6. 048)
17 Mar 1900
S
Swamiji's views on 'Mind.' (ND 6. 049)
Mar 1900
S
Views of some members of the audience. (ND 6. 050)
Mar 1900
S
While some people, their pride badly damaged, may have stopped coming to Swamiji's lectures, his following as a whole was to remain constant throughout his stay in San Francisco. (ND 6. 051)
18 Mar 1900
Notes
Notes of Swamiji's lecture THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION (18.03.1900) at (CW SV 6.101)
18 Mar 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture BUDDHA `S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD at San Fransisco (CW SV 8.092)
18 Mar 1900
Interview
A DUSKY PHILOSOPHER FROM INDIA : A interview by Blanche Partington, San Francisco Chronicle (CW SV 9.323 ND 5.389)
18 Mar 1900
Interview
WE ARE HYPNOTIZED INTO WEAKNESS BY OUR SURROUNDINGS :An interview by the San Francisco Examiner (CW SV 9.327 ND 5.396)
18 Mar 1900
Notes
Swamiji gave the second lecture of his Sunday series on the afternoon of March 18. Its title was "Buddha’s Message to the World," (ND 5.382)
18 Mar 1900
Notes
Mr. Brown related in his reminiscences as published in the London magazine Vedanta for East and West (July-August, 1959), "a great patriot and lover of freedom. (ND 5.382)
Mar 1900
Notes
"Buddha’s Message to the World" was the second lecture during which Miss Ansell practiced her shorthand. (ND 5.384)
Mar 1900
News reports
Two days later, the San Francisco newspapers carried small advertisements that read: (ND 6.058)
Mar 1900
News reports
Of these three lectures the only one that the newspapers later commented upon was the first. On March 21 the San Francisco Call produced the following: (ND 6.058)
Mar 1900
Notes
The second series of three lectures dealt with India's customs, culture, and ideals. Delivered respectively on the Monday evenings of March 19, 26, and April 2. (LSV 2. 509)
Mar 1900
Notes
This second Wendte Hall series completed the Swami's work in Oakland. (LSV 2. 509)
19 Mar 1900
News reports
Fairly long report of lecture printed in Chronicle (ND 5.384)
19 Mar 1900
Notes
Notes of Swamiji's lecture THE PEOPLE OF INDIA 19.03.1900 at (CW SV 8.241)
Mar 1900
Notes
As will be clear from a comparison of "Buddha’s Message to the World" as given in the Complete Works with the above report, the latter is not a full or altogether clear exposition of what Swami said. (ND 5.386)
Mar 1900
S
On the same Sunday that Swamiji delivered his lecture on Buddha, two interviews with him appeared in the San Francisco papers-one in the Chronicle, the other in the Examiner. (ND 5.388)
Mar 1900
News reports
The story of morning visit of the reporter from the chronocle, Miss Partington. (ND 5.389)
Mar 1900
S
The Examiner’s interview with Swamiji came out in the Magazine Section of that paper on the same Sunday as the Chronicle’s. (ND 5.395)
Mar 1900
News reports
The text of the Examiner's interview with Swamiji. (ND 5.396)
Mar 1900
S
The above was followed without explanation by a fairly long article headed simply "By Swami Vivekananda." (ND 5.398)
20 Mar 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture NATURE & MAN (CW SV 6.033)
20 Mar 1900
Notes
Notes of Swamiji's lecture I AM THAT I AM 20.03.1900 at (CW SV 8.244)
20 Mar 1900
Notes
The series started out quietly enough. In "Nature and Man" Swamiji gave a clear, concise explanation. (ND 6.059)
22 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MARY From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.502)
23 Mar 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture THE SOUL AND GOD 23.03.1900 at San Franscisco (CW SV 1.489)
23 Mar 1900
Notes
In "Soul and God" and "The Goal" Swamiji left no question as to the implications of the philosophy he had expounded. (ND 6.060)
25 Mar 1900
I
Swamiji’s lecture of Sunday, March 25, 1900, at Union Square Hall was to have been on "Sri Khrisna and His Message"- (ND 5. 398)
25 Mar 1900
S
For one reason or another, Swamiji decided to speak that day not on Sri Krishna’s message to the world, as had been announced, but on Mohammed’s. (ND 5. 399)
Mar 1900
S
The published portion of Miss Ansell’s second transcript of "Mohammed’s Message to the World," or more simply, "Mohammed", gives no idea of what had so amazed Mr. Allan, for it comprises only the latter half of the lecture. (ND 5. 400)
25 Mar 1900
Notes
Excerpts of Ida Ansell's first transcript of Swamiji's San Francisco lecture MOHAMMED'S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD delivered on Sunday. Rest of the lecture is in CW SV 1.481 (CW SV 9.272 ND 5.401)
25 Mar 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture MOHAMMED 25.03.1900 at San Franscisco (CW SV 1.481)
25 Mar 1900
S
"In the midst of all this chaos was born the prophet." (ND 5. 403)
25 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to SISTER NIVEDITA From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 6.429 ND 6. 044)
25 Mar 1900
News reports
Under "Church Notices" the San Francisco papers of March 25 announced: (ND 6. 067)
26 Mar 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture ON ART IN INDIA at San Fransisco (CW SV 4.196)
Mar 1900
News reports
The Enquier's brief report of Swamiji’s second lecture of the series on India, "Arts and Sciences in India" (ND 5. 366)
26 Mar 1900
Notes
Frank Rhodehamel's notes of Swamiji's class MEDITATION delivered in San Francisco on Monday (CW SV 9.274 ND 6.010)
Mar 1900
Notes
During his stay in California the Swami's health continued to improve. (LSV 2. 515)
27 Mar 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture THE GOAL 27.03.1900 at San Franscisco (CW SV 2.463)
27 Mar 1900
Notes
In "The Goal" Swamiji continued to blast concepts dear to Christian thought-new as well as old. (ND 6. 060)
28 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MARY From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.503 ND 6. 044)
28 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to SISTER NIVEDITA From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 6.430 LSV 2. 515 ND 6. 043 ND 6. 045)
28 Mar 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture BREATHING at San Francisco (CW SV 1.503)
Mar 1900
Letter
It was in this mood, or rather, in this state of being which no mood could disturb-that Swamiji lectured, held classes, and gave interviews in San Francisco, delivering his final and, as he was heard to say, his highest teachings. (ND 6. 045)
30 Mar 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture DISCIPLESHIP (29.3.1900) at San Fransisco (CW SV 8.106)
Mar 1900
Notes
In "Discipleship" Swamiji dealt with the four basic conditions of discipleship. (ND 6. 082)
30 Mar 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to MACLEOD JOSEFINE From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.506 ND 6. 043)
30 Mar 1900
Letter
One finds a gradual crescendo of mood, from depression and nervousness in Los Angeles to a growing peace in San Francisco (ND 6. 043)
Mar 1900
Notes
RENUNCIATION : Alice Hansbrough's reminiscences of a question - answer session following one of Swamiji's San Francisco classes pertaining to renunciation (CW SV 9.329 ND 6.011)
Mar 1900
Notes
SRI RAMAKRISHNA'S DISCIPLE : Mrs. Edith Allan described a teacher - student exchange in one of Swamiji's San Francisco classes (CW SV 9.330 ND 6.012)
Mar 1900
Notes
THE MASTER'S DIVINE INCARNATION : Edith Allan's reminiscences (CW SV 9.330 ND 6.017)
Mar 1900
Notes
A PRIVATE ADMISSION : From Mrs. Edith Allan's reminiscences of Swamiji in San Francisco (CW SV 9.330 ND 6.212)
Mar 1900
Notes
In March and April, all the Swami's evening lectures were given in Washington Hall in the Red Men's Building. (LSV 2. 513)
Mar 1900
Notes
But in this mood of increasing calm the Swami's lectures and classes remained extraordinarily dynamic, and his power of attraction was as strong as ever. (LSV 2. 516)
Mar 1900
Notes
He encouraged the asking of questions at the conclusion of every lecture, and would go to any length to make his questioners understand. (LSV 2. 517)
Mar 1900
S
In the questions which usually followed a talk on this subject, there was almost sure to he the question: (LSV 2. 519)
Mar 1900
I
Incedent occurred while Swamiji was expounding Advaita. (LSV 2. 520 ND 6. 063)
Mar 1900
I
Once Swamiji was Dilating on the life of the sannyasin as compared to that of the householder. (LSV 2. 521)
Mar 1900
S
The Swami commanded reverence when he revealed himself at times to his audience in one of those wonderful waves of transcendental feeling which he did not try to cheek. (LSV 2. 521)
Mar 1900
S
Swamiji in question - answer session. (LSV 2. 522 ND 6. 012)
Mar 1900
S
At these yoga classes one came closer to the man and teacher than was possible in the lecture hall. (LSV 2. 523)
Mar 1900
Notes
According to a brief report in the San Francisco Chronicle of March 30, "Vivekananda answered questions at the close of the lecture as he will after the next two which will be on `Meditation' and `Explanations in Regard to Breathing.' " (ND 6.069)
Apr 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to MACLEOD JOSEFINE From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.508)
1 Apr 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture KRISHNA 01.04.1900 at San Franscisco (CW SV 1.437)
1 Apr 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to BULL MRS.OLE From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.510 ND 6.039)
1 Apr 1900
S
The next Sunday, at the same hall and, as far as is known, at the appointed hour of three o’clock, Swamiji spoke on "Krishna’s Message to the World." (ND 5. 404)
2 Apr 1900
S
The third lecture, "The Ideals of India" (not, after all, "The Ideals of Quakers," as the Enquirer had announced on March 14), was not reported upon by any of the newspapers. (ND 5. 366)
Apr 1900
S
Swamiji never tired of talking about anything connected with his beloved motherland. (ND 5. 367)
Apr 1900
S
The second Wendte Hall series, which has taken us into April, completed Swamiji’s work in Oakland. (ND 5. 367)
Apr 1900
S
From Notes of Mr. Rhodehame. (ND 5. 368)
Apr 1900
S
From Notes of Mr. Allan. (ND 5. 368)
Apr 1900
S
Several years after Swamiji had passed away, a number of Vedanta students in Oakland formed a study and discussion group under the leadership of the young man named Gurudasa. (ND 5. 369)
Apr 1900
S
In 1931 Swami Ashokananda, who had just begun his ministry at the Vedanta Society in San Francisco. (ND 5. 370)
3 Apr 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture MEDITATION at San Fransisco (CW SV 4.227)
5 Apr 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture PRACTICAL RELIGION :BREATHING & MEDITATION at San Franscisco (CW SV 1.513)
Apr 1900
Notes
Swamiji firmly explained what is practical Religion? (ND 6. 076)
Apr 1900
Notes
Swamiji answering to the questions. (ND 6. 079)
Apr 1900
Notes
Swamiji once said to Mrs. Hansbrough in San Francisco, "I may have to be born again." (ND 6. 079)
Apr 1900
Notes
Swamiji replied a question " what, then was the practical religion?" (ND 6. 080)
Apr 1900
Notes
Notes on ' The Science of Breathing' (ND 6.068)
Apr 1900
Notes
Swamiji kept the goal of meditation in clear view of his audience: (ND 6.070)
Apr 1900
Notes
Ida Ansell's second transcripts of these three lectures have been published in volumes one, four, and one, respectively, of the Complete Works. (ND 6. 068)
Apr 1900
Notes
Swamiji seems to have been satisfied with the with the work he had done (ND 6. 088)
6 Apr 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to SISTER NIVEDITA From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.512)
Apr 1900
Notes
As it happened, however, Swamiji's work in San Francisco was not yet done. (ND 6. 088)
Apr 1900
Notes
the Raja of Khetri had "stopped the stipend" was not a matter of small importance, and since it has bearing on our present story, something of the relationship between Swamiji and his good friend and disciple Maharaja Ajit Singh of Khetri can be told here. (ND 6. 089)
Apr 1900
Notes
Yet Swamiji did not seem sorry to work longer and harder than he had intended. (ND 6. 092)
7 Apr 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to LEGGETT MRS. From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 7.523)
7 Apr 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to AMERICAN FRIEND From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.513)
8 Apr 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture IS VEDANTA THE FUTURE RELIGION ? At San Franscisco (CW SV 8.122)
Apr 1900
Notes
Swamiji would have learned of his financial standing through consultation with Mrs. Hansbrough. (ND 6. 087)
8 Apr 1900
Notes
On April 8 Swamiji delivered the fifth and last lecture in his Sunday series on the Great Teachers of the World. (ND 6. 083)
8 Apr 1900
Notes
It was indeed a "man-making religion" that Swamiji preached in San Francisco, a religion to build heroes. (ND 6. 085)
8 Apr 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to BULL MRS.OLE From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.513)
Apr 1900
S
Towards the end of his stay in San Francisco, he gave a series of three lectures on Bhakti- Yoga, also at the Red Men's Building, on April 9, 10, and 12. The titles were respectively, "Worshipper and Worshipped", "Formal Worship", and "Divine Love". (LSV 2.514 ND 6. 092)
Apr 1900
S
In addition to lecturing in downtown San Francisco, the Swami spoke at least once at the Pine Street Home of Truth and also at the Home of Truth on California Street. Although we have very little information regarding these talks, it is known that the latter took place before April 8. (LSV 2.515)
9 Apr 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture WORSHIPPER & WORSHIPPED at San Franscisco (CW SV 6.049)
Apr 1900
Notes
Swamiji's definition of the Personal God-reonciled in a few words the philosophy of monism and the path of devotion. (ND 6. 092)
9 Apr 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to SISTER CHRISTINE From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 9.135)
Apr 1900
Letter
Swamiji's letter to MACLEOD JOSEFINE From SAN FRANCISCO (CW SV 8.515)
Apr 1900
S
Between March 4 and April 18, a period of forty-six days that overlapped his stay at Turk Street at both ends, Swamiji delivered at least forty-two public lectures. (ND 5.370)
Apr 1900
S
It was long thought that almost all of Swamiji’s lectures in San Francisco, and all of those he was to give later in Alameda, were lost to everyone but those who heard them. (ND 5.371)
Apr 1900
S
Almost half a century passed before Miss Ansell looked again at her notes of Swamiji’s lectures and, at the request of Swami Ashokananda, began to transcribe them. (ND 5.373)
Apr 1900
S
On July 19, 1945, when Miss Ansell sent her first transcript to Swami Ashokananda, her accompanying letter was full of apology, if not despair: (ND 5.373)
Apr 1900
S
As time went on, Miss Ansell became more confident that her scraps of notes would somehow be made whole: (ND 5.374)
Apr 1900
S
When Miss Ansell wrote the above passage, she had transcribed less than half the lecture notes. (ND 5.375)
Apr 1900
S
According to Mrs. Hansbrough, who had, of course, heard Swamiji lecture in both southern and northern California, he "showed greater power in San Francisco than in Los Angeles. (ND 6. 064)
Apr 1900
Notes
Largely thinkers, writers, reformers, and clergymen of the well-to-do middle classes, had become aware, first in England, then in America, that the Industrial Revolution was not turning out to be an unmitigated blessing. (ND 6. 071)
Apr 1900
Notes
During his first visit to the West Swamiji had had a firsthand acquaintance with the views of Socialized Christianity. (ND 6. 073)
Apr 1900
Notes
One might say that there was a sort of undeclared, and to the majority of churchgoers unsuspected, war of good work going on in America at the end of the century. (ND 6. 075)
10 Apr 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture FORMAL WORSHIP at San Franscisco (CW SV 6.059)
10 Apr 1900
Notes
In "Formal Worship," Swamiji explained the value of (but did not necessarily recommend) the various stages of worship, the "kindergartens of religion," through which man passes. (ND 6. 095)
Apr 1900
S
Four of Ida Ansell’s transcripts, as edited by Swami Ashokananda, were published in the 1946 issues of The Voice of India. (ND 5.375)
Apr 1900
S
It was, indeed, not until the Swami had moved into the Turk Street flat on March 9, deciding to remain for at least a month more in San Francisco, that his work assumed a definite and distinctive character. (LSV 2. 511)
Apr 1900
S
Two years later, in February of 1948, she wrote, still worried: (ND 5.376)
Apr 1900
S
This, however, was not the last chapter of the story of her shorthand notes. (ND 5.377)
Apr 1900
S
But however that may be, readers now have the benefit of Miss Ansell’s second transcriptions of sixteen of Swamiji’s lectures. (ND 5.377)
Apr 1900
S
In San Francisco, as elsewhere, the Swami's towering and benign personality stood before his listeners as irrefutable proof of his message. (LSV 2. 513)
Apr 1900
S
Two Stories Told By Swami Vivekananda at Ridgely Manor as Recorded by Maud Stumm. (ND 5.409)
Apr 1900
S
When Swamiji moved in April to the Alameda Home of Truth, Mrs. Allan continued to see him every day. (ND 6. 018)
Apr 1900
S
Mrs. Allan describing Swamiji many-sided and wonderful beyond descripption. (ND 6. 018)
Apr 1900
S
While speaking of the interviews Swamiji gave at his Turk Street flat. (ND 6. 020)
Apr 1900
S
Swamiji had many kind of desciples. (ND 6. 022)
Apr 1900
S
Many other people in the various places Swamiji visited, such as Boston, Detroit, Chicago, London, received a formal initiation from him. (ND 6. 023)
Apr 1900
S
According to Mrs. Hansbrough, Swamiji's daily routine in San Francisco was more or less the same as it had been in Pasadena. (ND 6. 025)
Apr 1900
S
On a sheet of foolscap paper Mrs.Hansbrough later wrote out for the Allans the following deeply personal word. (ND 6. 026)
Apr 1900
S
Mrs. Hansbrough recalled couple of incidences while at San Francisco. (ND 6. 028)
Apr 1900
S
Swamiji did not spend all his time in San Francisco in either his flat or a lecture hall. (ND 6. 030)
Apr 1900
S
One of the places to which Swamiji may have sometimes gone alone, however, was Chinatown. (ND 6. 032)
Apr 1900
S
According to Mrs. Hansbrough's account another place Swamiji liked to visit was Golden Gate Park. (ND 6. 034)
Apr 1900
S
Swamiji also visited the Cliff House, going by means of a street car pulled along by a little steam engine through empty sand and dunes. (ND 6. 035)
Apr 1900
S
Couple of incidents occurred with Swamiji at outside dinner. (ND 6. 037)
Apr 1900
S
Happily, Mr. Neilson had other opportunities to entertain Swamiji. (ND 6. 038)
Apr 1900
S
Probably during the first part of the month, his heart gave in to the old German and, as the following account from Mrs. French's memoirs shows, he went to stay at his home: (ND 6. 040)
Apr 1900
S
One of the last people one would expect him to meet and come to know quite well was Mrs. Collis P. Huntington. (ND 6. 041)
Apr 1900
S
Swamiji met people of all kinds in San Francisco, and, as was the case always, he was equally friendly to all. (ND 6. 042)
12 Apr 1900
Lecture
Swamiji's lecture DIVINE LOVE . (CW SV 6.070)
12 Apr 1900
Notes
Swamiji said in "Divine Love," "To be completely turned into love of God,-there is the real worship! (ND 6. 095)
Apr 1900
Notes
In addition to giving lectures in downtown San Francisco, Swamiji spoke at least once during his stay in the city at the Pine Street Home of Truth and once at the California Street Home of Truth. (ND 6. 096)
Apr 1900
Notes
n his lecture at the California Street Home of Truth Swamiji rebuked American doctors for advising against the practice of chastity. (ND 6. 097)
Apr 1900
Notes
Swamiji's work in San Francisco was virtually finished. (ND 6. 098)
Apr 1900
Notes
Thus with the series "Divine Love," Swamiji's public lectures in Washington Hall came to a close. (ND 6. 099)
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