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The Complete Works of Swami Vivekanand - Vol - 4 - Novels
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English Biography
The best definition given of Bhakti-Yoga is perhaps embodied in the verse: "May that love undying which the non-discriminating have for the fleeting objects of the senses never leave this heart of mine — of me who seek after Thee!" We see what a strong love men, who do not know any better, have for sense-objects, for money, dress, their wives, children, friends, and possessions. What a tremendous clinging they have to all these things! So in the above prayer the sage says, "I will have that attachment, that tremendous clinging, only to Thee." This love, when given to God, is called Bhakti. Bhakti is not destructive; it teaches us that no one of the faculties we have has been given in vain, that through them is the natural way to come to liberation. Bhakti does not kill out our tendencies, it does not go against nature, but only gives it a higher and more powerful direction. How naturally we love objects of the senses! We cannot but do so, because they are so real to us. We do not ordinarily see anything real about higher things, but when a man has seen something real beyond the senses, beyond the universe of senses, the idea is that he can have a strong attachment, only it should be transferred to the object beyond the senses, which is God. And when the same kind of love that has before been given to sense-objects is given to God, it is called Bhakti. According to the sage Râmânuja, the following are the preparations for getting that intense love.
Addresses On Bhakti-Yoga - The Complete Works Of Swami Vivekanand - Vol - 4
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The Preparation
The First Steps
The Teacher of Spirituality
The Need of Symbols
The Chief Symbols
The Ishta
Lectures And Discourses - The Complete Works Of Swami Vivekanand - Vol - 4
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The Ramayana
The Mahabharata
Thoughts on the Gita
The Story of Jada Bharata
The Story of Prahlada
The Great Teachers of the World
On Lord Buddha
Christ, the Messenger
My Master
Indian ...Read MoreThought
The Basis for Psychic or Spiritual Research
On Art in India
Is India a Benighted Country
The Claims of Religion
Concentration
Meditation
The Practice of Religion
Writings Prose - The Complete Works Of Swami Vivekanand - Vol - 4
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Is the Soul Immortal
Reincarnation
On Dr. Paul Deussen li
On Professor Max Müller
Sketch of the Life of Pavhari Baba
Aryans and Tamilians
The Social Conference Address
India ...Read MoreMessage to the World
Stray Remarks on Theosophy
Reply to the Address of the Maharaja of Khetri
Reply to the Madras address
A Message of Sympathy to a Friend
What we Believe in
Our Duty to the Masses
Reply to the Calcutta Address
To my Brave Boys
A Plan of Work for India
Fundamentals of Religion
Writings Poems - The Complete Works Of Swami Vivekanand - Vol - 4
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Kali the Mother
Angels Unawares I-III
To the Awakened India
Requiscat in Pace
Hold on Yet a While, Brave Heart
Nirvanashatkam, or Six Stanzas on Nirvana
The Song of The ...Read More
Translations Poems - The Complete Works Of Swami Vivekanand - Vol - 4
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The Problem of Modern India and its Solution
Ramakrishna, his Life and Sayings
The Paris Congress of the History of Religions
Knowledge: Its Source and Acquirement
Modern India
The ...Read Morethat India needs
Our Present Social Problems