Vivekananda Archive
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Addresses at The Parliament of Religions, Karma Yoga, Raja Yoga, Lectures and Discourses

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Volume 1 of the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda — Addresses at The Parliament of Religions, Karma Yoga, Raja Yoga, Lectures and Discourses.

Historical Context

Volume 1 centres on Swami Vivekananda's landmark addresses at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, September 1893, where his opening words 'Sisters and Brothers of America' electrified a crowd of seven thousand and introduced Vedanta and Hinduism to the Western world. It also contains his systematic treatises Karma Yoga and Raja Yoga, both delivered as lecture series in New York during 1895-96, which remain foundational texts of modern yoga philosophy.


Table of Contents

1

Address at the Final Session

Addresses at The Parliament of Religions

lecture AR 2 min read
2

Appendix - References To Yoga

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 7 min read
3

Breathing

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 14 min read
4

Buddhism, the Fulfillment of Hinduism

Addresses at The Parliament of Religions

lecture AR 3 min read
5

Concentration: Its Practice

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 41 min read
6

Concentration: Its Spiritual Uses

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 44 min read
7

Dhyana And Samadhi

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 14 min read
8

Each is great in his own place

Karma-Yoga

lecture AR 22 min read
9

Freedom

Karma-Yoga

lecture AR 20 min read
10

Independence

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 17 min read
11

Introduction

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 7 min read
12

Introductory

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 17 min read
13

Karma in its Effect on Character

Karma-Yoga

lecture AR 12 min read
14

Krishna

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 11 min read
15

Mohammed

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 4 min read
16

Non-attachment is complete self-abnegation

Karma-Yoga

lecture AR 19 min read
17

Paper on Hinduism

Addresses at The Parliament of Religions

essay AR 20 min read
18

Powers

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 18 min read
19

Practical Religion: Breathing And Meditation

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 11 min read
20

Prana

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 19 min read
21

Pratyahara And Dharana

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 11 min read
22

Preface

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 3 min read
23

Privilege

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 9 min read
24

Raja-Yoga In Brief

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 8 min read
25

Reason And Religion

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 24 min read
26

Religion not the Crying need of India

Addresses at The Parliament of Religions

lecture AR 1 min read
27

Response to Welcome

Addresses at The Parliament of Religions

lecture AR 2 min read
28

Soul, God And Religion

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 17 min read
29

Steps Of Hindu Philosophic Thought

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 17 min read
30

Steps To Realisation

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 17 min read
31

The Control Of The Psychic Prana

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 7 min read
32

The First Steps

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 14 min read
33

The Gita I

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 17 min read
34

The Gita II

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 9 min read
35

The Gita III

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 17 min read
36

The Hindu Religion

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 5 min read
37

The Ideal of Karma-Yoga

Karma-Yoga

lecture AR 15 min read
38

The Psychic Prana

Raja-Yoga

lecture AR 8 min read
39

The Secret of Work

Karma-Yoga

lecture AR 15 min read
40

The Soul And God

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 19 min read
41

The Spirit And Influence Of Vedanta

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 7 min read
42

The Vedanta Philosophy

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 10 min read
43

Vedanta And Privilege

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 19 min read
44

Vedanta As A Factor In Civilisation

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 5 min read
45

Vedic Religious Ideals

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 19 min read
46

Vilvamangala

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 4 min read
47

We help ourselves, not the world

Karma-Yoga

lecture AR 10 min read
48

What is Duty?

Karma-Yoga

lecture AR 13 min read
49

What Is Religion?

Lectures and Discourses

lecture AR 16 min read
50

Why we disagree

Addresses at The Parliament of Religions

lecture AR 2 min read

Key Quotes from This Volume

“Sisters and Brothers of America... It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have given us.”

“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”

“The present convention... is in itself a vindication of the wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita: 'Whosoever comes to Me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to Me.'”

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