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The Life of the Swami Vivekananda by His Eastern and Western Disciples the Advaita Ashrama Himalayas the Semi-Centenary Birthday Memorial Edition
1912
Summary
In the beginning it was planned to incorporate a bigraphical sketch in the last volume of the Mayavati Memorial Edition of The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda"; but both by reason of the supreme import of the Swami's life to the world and the vast collection of biographical facts of the most interesting nature and of far-reaching significance gathered during the last seven years this [...] It is the history of the Soul's own Revelation beautifully harmonising the dualistic vision of the Lover and his God the monistic vision of the Self realised and the consciousness of the Divinity of Man. [...] Sri Ramakrishna the Teacher Vivekananda the Preacher —Sri Ramakrishna the Man of Insight Vivekananda the Prophet of that Insight—these two were as one ; through them both shines the effulgence of the Spirit and the life of the one is incomplete without the life of the other. [...] Though the utterances of Sri Ramakrishna are mainly those of the Lover for the Lord still when it is remembered that it was he who gave his chief disciple the spirit and the consciousness of the Advaita one realises the supreme pupose of the Master that the future message of the Swami was to be that of the Advaita Vedanta wherein all sense of duality and distinction is swallowed up in the pe [...] And though the humanity of the wife or of the mother or of the husband or of the father may long for the absent one still does the soul know All is well " and the bonds of the rlationship are knit closer because one of the circle has seen God.
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