VivekaVani
Voice of Vivekananda
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Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Monday Aug 10, 2020
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Ramakrishna has no peer. Nowhere else in the world exists such unprecedented perfection, such wonderful kindness to all, such intense sympathy for men in bondage. I am what I am , and what I am is always due to him. Whatever in me or in my word s is good and true and eternal came to me from his mouth, his heart, his soul. Sri Ramakrishna is the spring of this phase of the earth’s religious life., of its impulses and activities. If I can show the world one glimpse of my Master I shall not live in vain. In the Ramakrishna Incarnation there is knowledge, infinite love, infinite work, infinite compassion for all beings. You have not yet been able to understand him. Even after hearing about him, most people do not understand him. What the whole Hindu race has thought in ages, he lived in one life. His life is the living commentary to the Vedas of all nations. People will come to know him by degrees. ~ Swami Vivekananda
Saturday Aug 08, 2020
Saturday Aug 08, 2020
Friday Aug 07, 2020
Friday Aug 07, 2020
The world is in the grip of a consumerist mania, with wants far exceeding needs, leading to environmental, social, and personal problems. The Vedic viewpoint offers an alternative way, says Swami Mahayogananda, in this lecture.
Friday Aug 07, 2020
Friday Aug 07, 2020
Friday Aug 07, 2020
Manisha Panchakam is a set of five verses in which Adi Shankaracharya succinctly presents the essence of Advaita Vendanta, philosophy of non-duality. The occasion for this composition was an encounter between Shankaracharya and a sweeper. When Shankaracharya was walking, along with his disciples, towards the temple of Lord Viswanath in Varanasi, it so happened that a sweeper was walking towards him on the same street. Shankaracharya asked the sweeper to move away from his path. The sweeper then asked him some questions that form the substatnce of two verses which are a prelude to the main composition. On hearing the sweeper's questions, Shankaracharya realized that the person before him was no ordinary sweeper. Shankaracharya's response to these questions, given in five verses, are called Manisha Panchakam; the word 'manisha' meaning 'firm conviction' appears in the last line in all five ("pancha" means five) verses. Manisha Panchakam - Discussion | Swami Sarvapriyananda