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Stray remarks on Theosophy

(Found among Swami Vivekananda’s papers.)
The Theosophists are having a jubilee time of it this year, and several press-notices are before us of their goings and doings for the last twenty-five years. read more

Reply to the Address of the Maharaja of Khetri

INDIA — THE LAND OF RELIGION
During his stay in America, the Swami received the following Address from the Maharaja of Khetri, dated March 4, 1895. read more

Reply to the Madras Address

(When the success of the Swami in America became well known in India, several meetings were held and addresses of thanks and congratulations were forwarded to him. The first reply which he wrote was that to the Address of the Hindus of Madras.) read more

A Message of Sympathy to a Friend

(Written from Bombay on 23rd May, 1893 to D. R. Balaji Rao who just had a severe domestic affliction.) read more

What We Believe In

(Written to “Kidi” on March 3, 1894, from Chicago.)
I agree with you so far that faith is a wonderful insight and that it alone can save; but there is the danger in it of breeding fanaticism and barring further progress. read more

Reply to the Calcutta Address

(Written from New York on Nov. 18, 1894, to Raja Pyari Mohan Mukherji, President of the public meeting held on Sept. 5, 1894 at the Calcutta Town Hall in appreciation of Swami Vivekananda’s work in the West.) read more

A Plan of Work for India

(Written to Justice Sir Subrahmanya Iyer from Chicago, 3rd Jan., 1895.)
It is with a heart full of love, gratitude, and trust that I take up my pen to write to you. Let me tell you first, that you are one of the few men that I have met in my life who are thorough in their convictions. You have a whole-souled possession of a wonderful combination of feeling and knowledge, and withal a practical ability to bring ideas into realised forms. Above all, you are sincere, and as such I confide to you some of my ideas. read more

Fundamentals of Religion

(This incomplete article was found in the papers of Miss S. E. Waldo. The heading is inserted by us — Publisher.) read more

The Problem of Modern India and its Solution

(The above is a translation of the Bengali article written by Swami Vivekananda as an introduction to the Udbodhana, when it was started on the 14th of January, 1899, as the Bengali fortnightly (afterwards monthly) journal of the Ramakrishna Order.) read more

Ramakrishna: His life and Sayings

(Translation of a review of Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings by Prof. Max Müller, contributed to the Udbodhana, 14th March, 1899.) read more