Work and Its Secret, Jnana Yoga, Practical Vedanta, Reports in American Newspapers
Volume 2 of the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda — Work and Its Secret, Jnana Yoga, Practical Vedanta, Reports in American Newspapers.
Historical Context
Volume 2 collects Vivekananda's American lectures from 1895-96, primarily delivered in New York, where he expounded Jnana Yoga (the path of knowledge) and Practical Vedanta for Western audiences. It also preserves contemporary newspaper reports that document the extraordinary public reception he received across the United States, offering a vivid record of how Indian philosophy was first transmitted to the modern West.
Table of Contents
Work and its Secret
Work and its Secret
The Absolute and Manifestation
Jnana-Yoga
God in Everything
Jnana-Yoga
Realisation
Jnana-Yoga
Unity in Diversity
Jnana-Yoga
The Freedom of the Soul
Jnana-Yoga
The Cosmos: The Macrocosm
Jnana-Yoga
The Cosmos: The Microcosm
Jnana-Yoga
Immortality
Jnana-Yoga
The Atman
Jnana-Yoga
The Atman: Its Bondage and Freedom
Jnana-Yoga
The Powers of the Mind
The Powers of the Mind
The Real and the Apparent Man
Jnana-Yoga
Practical Vedanta: Part I
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
Practical Vedanta: Part II
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
Practical Vedanta: Part III
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
Practical Vedanta: Part IV
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
The Way to the Realisation of a Universal Religion
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
The Ideal of a Universal Religion
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
The Open Secret
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
The Way to Blessedness
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
Hints on Practical Spirituality
Hints on Practical Spirituality
Soul, Nature and God
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
Cosmology
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
A study of the Sankhya philosophy
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
Sankhya and Vedanta
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
The Goal
Practical Vedanta and other lectures
Note
Reports in American Newspapers
Divinity of Man
Reports in American Newspapers
Swami Vivekananda on India
Reports in American Newspapers
Religious Harmony
Reports in American Newspapers
From far off India
Reports in American Newspapers
Bhakti or Devotion
Bhakti or Devotion
An Evening with our Hindu Cousins
Reports in American Newspapers
The Manners and Customs of India
Reports in American Newspapers
The Religions of India
Reports in American Newspapers
Sects and Doctrines in India
Reports in American Newspapers
Less Doctrine and more Bread
Reports in American Newspapers
The Religion of Buddha
Reports in American Newspapers
All Religions are Good
Reports in American Newspapers
The Hindu way of life
Reports in American Newspapers
Ideals of Womanhood
Reports in American Newspapers
True Buddhism
Reports in American Newspapers
The Necessity of Religion
Jnana-Yoga
India's Gift to the World
Reports in American Newspapers
Child Widows of India
Reports in American Newspapers
Some Customs of the Hindus
Reports in American Newspapers
The Real Nature of Man
Jnana-Yoga
Maya and Illusion
Jnana-Yoga
Maya and the Evolution of the Conception of God
Jnana-Yoga
Maya and Freedom
Jnana-Yoga
Key Quotes from This Volume
“Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal.”
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
“The Vedanta recognises no sin, it only recognises error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta, is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.”
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