Addresses at The Parliament of Religions, Karma Yoga, Raja Yoga, Lectures and Discourses
Volume 1 of the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda — Addresses at The Parliament of Religions, Karma Yoga, Raja Yoga, Lectures and Discourses.
Historical Context
Volume 1 centres on Swami Vivekananda's landmark addresses at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, September 1893, where his opening words 'Sisters and Brothers of America' electrified a crowd of seven thousand and introduced Vedanta and Hinduism to the Western world. It also contains his systematic treatises Karma Yoga and Raja Yoga, both delivered as lecture series in New York during 1895-96, which remain foundational texts of modern yoga philosophy.
Table of Contents
Response to Welcome
Addresses at The Parliament of Religions
What is Duty?
Karma-Yoga
We help ourselves, not the world
Karma-Yoga
Non-attachment is complete self-abnegation
Karma-Yoga
Freedom
Karma-Yoga
The Ideal of Karma-Yoga
Karma-Yoga
Preface
Raja-Yoga
Introductory
Raja-Yoga
The First Steps
Raja-Yoga
Prana
Raja-Yoga
The Psychic Prana
Raja-Yoga
Why we disagree
Addresses at The Parliament of Religions
The Control Of The Psychic Prana
Raja-Yoga
Pratyahara And Dharana
Raja-Yoga
Dhyana And Samadhi
Raja-Yoga
Raja-Yoga In Brief
Raja-Yoga
Introduction
Raja-Yoga
Concentration: Its Spiritual Uses
Raja-Yoga
Concentration: Its Practice
Raja-Yoga
Powers
Raja-Yoga
Independence
Raja-Yoga
Appendix - References To Yoga
Raja-Yoga
Paper on Hinduism
Addresses at The Parliament of Religions
Soul, God And Religion
Lectures and Discourses
The Hindu Religion
Lectures and Discourses
What Is Religion?
Lectures and Discourses
Vedic Religious Ideals
Lectures and Discourses
The Vedanta Philosophy
Lectures and Discourses
Reason And Religion
Lectures and Discourses
Vedanta As A Factor In Civilisation
Lectures and Discourses
The Spirit And Influence Of Vedanta
Lectures and Discourses
Steps Of Hindu Philosophic Thought
Lectures and Discourses
Steps To Realisation
Lectures and Discourses
Religion not the Crying need of India
Addresses at The Parliament of Religions
Vedanta And Privilege
Lectures and Discourses
Privilege
Lectures and Discourses
Krishna
Lectures and Discourses
The Gita I
Lectures and Discourses
The Gita II
Lectures and Discourses
The Gita III
Lectures and Discourses
Mohammed
Lectures and Discourses
Vilvamangala
Lectures and Discourses
The Soul And God
Lectures and Discourses
Breathing
Lectures and Discourses
Buddhism, the Fulfillment of Hinduism
Addresses at The Parliament of Religions
Practical Religion: Breathing And Meditation
Lectures and Discourses
Address at the Final Session
Addresses at The Parliament of Religions
Karma in its Effect on Character
Karma-Yoga
Each is great in his own place
Karma-Yoga
The Secret of Work
Karma-Yoga
Key Quotes from This Volume
“Sisters and Brothers of America... It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have given us.”
“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”
“The present convention... is in itself a vindication of the wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita: 'Whosoever comes to Me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to Me.'”
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