The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Lectures on the four yogas, letters, poems and the Chicago addresses — non-duality restated as strength, service and self-reliance.
1893–1902
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- 1893–1902
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3,442 pages, 23 MB. Swami Vivekananda died in 1902; the nine volumes are long out of copyright, so the whole set can simply be given away. Advaita Ashrama, the publishing house of the Ramakrishna Order, still keeps the authoritative printed edition in print.
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- Belur Math, the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Order — Ramakrishna Order Jnana Yoga and the Practical Vedanta lectures are where Advaita enters modern speech.
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