Voice of Vivekananda
If we had a heaven like that desired by those to whom sense-enjoyment is the very end of existence, then we would not progress. That would be the most terrible curse we could pronounce on the soul. Is …
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D: I fear that Self-realisation is no easy thing to attain. M: Why impede yourself by anticipating failure? Push on. Self-realisation will come to an earnest seeker in a trice. To illustrate this, Sri …
A Rajput prince of Kanauj—a very ancient city—had a daughter [Samyukta]. She had heard of the military fame of Prithvi Rai [King of Ajmere and Delhi] and all his glory, and she was in love with him. …
An initiated disciple of Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, he joined the Order in 1917 and received his sannyasa-diksha from Swami Brahmananda Maharaj in 1922. Besides serving at Mayavati and Bombay …
When the desire will arise to have a peaceful, quiet life, that shall come where everything shall be propitious for the development of the mind—you may take that as my experience. It may come after …
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I will tell you the story of another beautiful Rajput girl.* There is a peculiar custom in our country called ‘protection’. Women can send small bracelets of silken thread to men. And if a girl sends …
