Bhakti Yoga, Para Bhakti, Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Volume 3 of the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda — Bhakti Yoga, Para Bhakti, Lectures from Colombo to Almora.
Historical Context
Volume 3 features the historic 'Lectures from Colombo to Almora' delivered during Vivekananda's triumphant return to India in January-February 1897, when he was welcomed as a national hero after his Western success. It also contains his treatises on Bhakti Yoga and Para Bhakti (Supreme Devotion), as well as his scholarly essay 'Buddhistic India', reflecting his deep engagement with India's religious and cultural history.
Table of Contents
Address at the Rameswaram Temple on Real Worship
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Address of Welcome at Almora and Reply
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Address of Welcome Presented at Calcutta and Reply
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
An Interesting Lecture
Reports in American Newspapers
At the Parliament of Religions
Reports in American Newspapers
Bhakti
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Buddhistic India
Buddhistic India
Conclusion
Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
Definition of Bhakti
Bhakti-Yoga
First Public Lecture in the East (Colombo)
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Hindoo Philosophy
Reports in American Newspapers
Hindu Civilisation
Reports in American Newspapers
Hindus at the Fair
Reports in American Newspapers
Human Representations of the Divine Ideal of Love
Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
Incarnate Teachers and Incarnation
Bhakti-Yoga
India: Her Religion and Customs
Reports in American Newspapers
Manners and Customs in India
Reports in American Newspapers
Miracles
Reports in American Newspapers
My Plan of Campaign
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
On Charity
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
One Existence Appearing as Many
Lectures and Discourses
Personal Traits
Reports in American Newspapers
Plea for Tolerance
Reports in American Newspapers
Qualifications of the Aspirant and the Teacher
Bhakti-Yoga
Reincarnation
Reports in American Newspapers
Reply to the Address of Welcome at Madras
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Reply to the Address of Welcome at Madura
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Reply to the Address of Welcome at Pamban
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Reply to the Address of Welcome at Paramakudi
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Reply to the Address of Welcome at Ramnad
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Reply to the Address of Welcome at Shivaganga and Manamadura
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Sannyasa: Its Ideal and Practice
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Spiritual Realisation, the aim of Bhakti-Yoga
Bhakti-Yoga
The Bhakta's Renunciation Results from Love
Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
The Chosen Ideal
Bhakti-Yoga
The Common Bases of Hinduism
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
The Divinity of Man
Reports in American Newspapers
The Forms of Love — Manifestation
Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
The Free Soul
Lectures and Discourses
The Future of India
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
The God of Love is His Own Proof
Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
The Higher Knowledge and the Higher Love are One to the True Lover
Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
The Hindoo Monk
Reports in American Newspapers
The Hindoo Religion
Reports in American Newspapers
The Influence of Indian Spiritual Thought in England
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
The Love of God
Reports in American Newspapers
The Mantra: Om: Word and Wisdom
Bhakti-Yoga
The Method and the Means
Bhakti-Yoga
The Mission of the Vedanta
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
The Naturalness of Bhakti-Yoga and its Central Secret
Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
The Need of Guru
Bhakti-Yoga
The Philosophy of Ishvara
Bhakti-Yoga
The Preparatory Renunciation
Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
The Religion we are born in
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
The Sages of India
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
The Triangle of Love
Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
The Vedanta
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
The Vedanta in all its phases
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
The Women of India
Reports in American Newspapers
The Work before us
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Unity, the Goal of Religion
Lectures and Discourses
Universal Love and How it Leads to Self Surrender
Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
Vedanta in its Application to Indian Life
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Vedantism
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Vedic Teaching in Theory and Practice
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
What have I learnt?
Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Worship of Substitutes and Images
Bhakti-Yoga
Key Quotes from This Volume
“They alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.”
“The moment I have realised God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him — that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”
“Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can, build your hope on none.”
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