Let us say that here is an infinite line amid darkness. We do not know
see the line, but on it there is one luminous point which moves on. As it
moves along the line, it lights up its different parts in succession, and
all that is left behind becomes dark again. Our consciousness may well be
linked to this luminous point. Its past experiences have been replaced by
the present, or have become subconscious. We are not aware of their
presence in us; but they are, unconsciously influencing our body and mind.
Every movement that is now being made without the help of consciousness
was previously conscious. Sufficient impetus has been given to it to work
of itself.
Let us be at peace, perfect peace, with ourselves and give
up our whole body and mind and everything as an eternal sacrifice unto the
Lord. Instead of the sacrifice of pouring oblations into the fire, perform
this one great sacrifice day and night - the sacrifice of your little
self.
Swami Vivekananda Biography
Read
the biography of Swami Vivekannda Know how Narendranath became
Vivekananda.
Address at the Parliament of Religons
"As
the different streams having there sources in different places all
mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men
take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked
or straight, all lead to Thee."
Collection
of Peoms
Concentration
and Breathing
We should put our minds on things; they should
not draw our minds to them. We are usually forced to concentrate. Our
minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction
in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just
where we want it, requires special training.
The
Ramayana
The
Mahabharata
THE
GREAT TEACHERS OF THE WORLD
CHRIST
THE MESSENGER
RAJA-YOGA
The science of Raja-Yoga, in the first place,
proposes to put before humanity a practical and scientificlly worked out
method of reaching truth. The world is ready to giveup its secrets if we
only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength
and force of the blow comes through concentration. The powers of the
mind are like rays of light dissipated; when they are conentrated, they
illumine. This is our only means of knowledge.
1)INTRODUCTORY
2)THE
FIRST STEPS
3)PRANA
4)THE
PSYCHIC PRANA
5)THE
CONTROL OF PSYCHIC PRANA
6)PRATYAHARA
AND DHARANA
7)DHYANA
AND SAMADHI
8)RAJA-YOGA
IN BRIEF
JNANA-YOGA
There is a great tendency in modern times to
talk too much of work and decry thought. Doing is very good, but that
comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles
are called work. But where there is no thought, there will be no work.
Fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest ideals, place
them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
Talk not about impurity, but say that we are pure. We have hypnotised
ourselves into this thought that we are little, that we are born, and
that we are going to die, and into a constant state of fear.
1)
THE NECESSITY OF RELIGION
2)
THE REAL NATURE OF MAN
3)
MAYA AND ILLUSION
4)
MAYA AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPTION OF GOD
5)
MAYA AND FREEDOM
6)
THE ABSOLUTE AND MANIFESTATION
7)
GOD IN EVERYTHING
8)
REALISATION
9)
UNITY IN DIVERSITY
10)
THE FREEDOM OF THE SOUL
11)
THE COSMOS - The Macrocosm
12)
THE COSMOS - The Microcosm
13)
IMMORTALITY
14)
THE ATMAN
15)
THE ATMAN: ITS BONDAGE AND FREEDOM
16)
THE REAL AND THE APPARENT MAN
Powers of
Mind The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little
minds, are fragments of that universal mind, little waves in the ocean;
and on account of this continuity, we can convey o ur thoughts directly
to one another.
KARMA-YOGA
Can any permanent happiness be given to the
world? In the ocean we cannot raise a wave without causing a hollow
somewhere else. The sum total of the good things in the world has been
the same throughout in its relation to man's need and greed. It cannot
be increased or decreased.
1)KARMA
IN ITS EFFECT ON CHARACTER
2)EACH
IS GREAT IN HIS OWN PLACE
3)THE
SECRET OF WORK
4)WHAT
IS DUTY?
5)WE
HELP OURSELVES, NOT THE WORLD
6)NON-ATTACHMENT
IS COMPLETE SELF-ABNEGATION
7)FREEDOM
8)THE
IDEAL OF KARMA YOGA
Work and
its secret. We not only want the mighty power of love, this mighty
power of attachment, the power of love, the power of throwing our whole
soul upon a single object, losing our selves and letting ourselves be
annihilated, as it were, for other souls -- which is the power of gods
-- but we want to be higher even than the gods. The perfect man can put
his whole soul upon that one point of love, yet he is unattached.
BHAKTI-YOGA - THE YOGA OF LOVE AND DEVOTION
BHAKTI
1)DEFINITION
OF BHAKTI
2)
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ISHVARA
3)SPIRITUAL
REALISATION, THE AIM OF BHAKTI-YOGA
4)THE
NEED OF GURU
5)QUALIFICATIONS
OF THE ASPIRANT AND THE TEACHER
6)INCARNATE
TEACHERS AND INCARNATION
7)THE
MANTRA: OM: WORD AND WISDOM
8)WORSHIP
OF SUBSTITUTES AND IMAGES
9)THE
CHOSEN IDEAL
10)THE
METHOD AND THE MEANS
PARA-BHAKTI OR SUPREME DEVOTION
1)THE
PREPARATORY RENUNCIATION
2)
THE BHAKTA'S RENUNCIATION RESULTS FROM LOVE
3)THE
NATURALNESS OF BHAKTI-YOGA AND ITS CENTRAL SECRET
4)
THE FORMS OF LOVE-MANIFESTATION
5)UNIVERSAL
LOVE AND HOW IT LEADS TO SELF-SURRENDER
6)THE
HIGHER KNOWLEDGE AND THE HIGHER LOVE ARE ONE TO THE TRUE LOVER
7)THE
TRIANGLE OF LOVE
8)
THE GOD OF LOVE IS HIS OWN PROOF
9)HUMAN
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DIVINE IDEAL OF LOVE
10)CONCLUSION
Vedanta and Religion
1)
VEDANTISM
2)VEDANTA
IN ITS APPLICATION TO INDIAN LIFE
3)
THE VEDANTA IN ALL ITS PHASES
4)
THE VEDANTA
5)
THE MISSION OF THE VEDANTA
1)
SANNYASA: ITS IDEAL AND PRACTICE
2)
THE SAGES OF INDIA
3)
THE RELIGION WE ARE BORN IN
4)
THE COMMON BASES OF HINDUISM
1)THE
WORK BEFORE US
2)
MY PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
3)
THE FUTURE OF INDIA
4)
WHAT HAVE I LEARNT?
Practical Vedanta
Feel like Christ and you will be a
Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is
the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of
intellectual activity can reach God. Intellect is like limbs without the
power of locomotion. It is only when feeling enters and gives them
motion that they move and work on others. That is so all over the world,
and it is a thing which you must always remember. It is one of the most
practical things in Vedantic morality, for it is the teaching of the
Vedanta that you are all prophets, and all must be prophets. The book is
not the proof of your conduct, but you are the proof of the book. How do
you know that a book teaches truth? Because you are truth and feel it.
That is what the Vedanta says. What is the proof of the Christs and
Buddhas of the world? That you and I feel like them.
1)
Practical Vedanta - Part I
2)
Practical Vedanta - Part II
3)
Practical Vedanta - Part III
4)
Practical Vedanta - Part IV
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