Living at the Source : Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda by Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren, Dorothy Madison

Living at the Source :

Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda
by Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren, Dorothy Madison

153 pages
Published by Shambhala Pubns
Publication date: July 1, 1993
ISBN: 0877738815

Synopsis:

In 1893, Vivekananda, disciple of the great Indian sage Ramakrishna, achieved notoriety when he appeared at the World Parliament of Religions at the Chicago World's Fair. This selection of the swami's writings speaks directly to contemporary people who seek spirituality in their everyday lives.

Table of Contents
1. Who Am I? External Coverings, This Very Soul Is the Self in All, If I Am God, You Are Infinite, The Bottom of the Lake, Shaping One's Destiny, Basics, In Each Dewdrop the Same Sun
2. The Human Condition The Forces of Good and Evil, A Nation's Well-Being, In the Course of Human Events, Make Yourself a Dynamo
3. The Intense Desire to Be Free Freedom, The One End to Be Attained, The Universal Cry, Strain Against the Bonds, The Struggle Toward Freedom
4. No One Is an Island The Luminous Idea, Keeping Your Balance, Negating the Negatives, Securing One's Own Good, Love All Alike, The Only True Teacher
5. So Many People, So Many Paths To See for Yourself, The Man, the Buffalo, and the Fish, Realizing the Spirit, Like the Tide Rushing
6. Efforts in Self-Discovery Nurturing Faith in Oneself, Awakenings, Method, The Fact of Inner Divinity, In Touch with Perfection
7. Sobering the Monkey The Mind in Action, Turning the Mind Within, The Concentrated Mind
8. Work as Self-Transformation Doing Good to Others, Ends and Means, Let Us Go to Work, Sowing and Reaping, Will, Duty, Art of Work, Great Works
9. Training the Mind for Wisdom First Steps, Thought, the Propelling Force, Behind the Veil of Appearances, Getting Out of the Old Groove, Truth, Reason, and Inspiration, Avoiding Spiritual Decay, The Ways of the Wise
10. The Counsel of Strength Adjuncts of Fearlessness, Stand Up and Be Strong, Making Our Way, Have Faith in Yourself
11. Without Thought of Self The Law of Life, The Ego-Self in Light and Shadow, The Only Positive Power, I Am Not a Shopkeeper, As the Rose Gives Perfume
12. The Journey Love - The Prime Mover, Freely Offering, To Teach a Child, Teach It with a Voice of Thunder
13. The Modes of Matter and Motion Everything Moves in a Circle, The Wave and the Ocean, Subtle Forces and Influences
14. The Web of God, Soul, and Nature The Real and the Relative, In Every Living Being, Sharpening the Focus, The Book of Mind and Heart, The Reality in Nature Is Spirit, Principles, Not Persons
15. How It Is Done Goals, Nothing Is Done in a Day, The Beginnings, Overcoming Obstacles, Varieties of Spiritual Practice, Certain Religious Facts
16. Flowers and Thunderbolts

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