印度教僧侣
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中文
印度教僧侣
（《上诉雪崩报》，1894年1月16日）
斯瓦米·辨喜，这位印度教僧侣，今晚将在（孟菲斯）礼堂登台演讲，他是这个国家宗教或演讲台上所出现的最为雄辩的人物之一。他无与伦比的口才、对神秘事物深邃的洞察、在辩论中的机敏，以及高度的真诚，在世博会宗教议会上赢得了世界思想界最密切的关注，也赢得了此后在美国诸多州份演讲巡回途中数以千计听众的赞叹。
在交谈中，他是一位最为愉快的绅士；他对词语的选择堪称英语中的精华，而他的总体风度使他跻身于西方礼仪与习俗中最有教养之人的行列。作为一名同伴，他是一个最具魅力的人；作为一名谈话者，他或许在西方世界任何城市的客厅中皆无人能出其右。他不仅讲英语时口齿清晰，而且流利自如，他的思想——崭新而闪光——从他的口中源源流出，形成令人叹为观止的华美语言的涌流。
斯瓦米·辨喜因其所继承的宗教或早年的教育，成长为一名婆罗门，但皈依印度教之后，他牺牲了自己的地位，成为一名印度教祭司，即在东方那片充满理想主义的国度所称的游方僧（Sannyasin）。他始终是大自然奇妙与神秘力量的虔诚探寻者——那力量来自上帝崇高的构想；多年的求学与执教经历，使他在那个东方国度的高等学府中积累了深厚的学识，这种学识使他成为当今时代最具思想深度的学者之一，享誉世界。
他在世博会议会成员面前发表的精彩首次演讲，立即使他在那个伟大的宗教思想者群体中确立了领袖地位。会议期间，他多次为自己的宗教进行辩护，为英语语言增添了一些最美丽、最具哲学深度的珠玑，其中描绘了人对同类及对其创造者所应尽的更崇高的责任。他是思想的艺术家，信仰中的理想主义者，舞台上的戏剧家。
自抵达孟菲斯以来，他一直是胡·L·布林克利先生的客人，白天与晚间均有众多孟菲斯人登门，希望向这位尊贵的访客致以敬意。他也是田纳西俱乐部的非正式嘉宾，并曾出席S. R. 谢泼德夫人于周六晚间举办的招待会。R. B. 斯诺登上校周日在其安尼斯代尔的府邸设宴款待这位杰出的访客，出席者包括副主教托马斯·F. 盖勒、乔治·帕特森牧师及多位其他神职人员。
昨日下午，他在伦道夫大楼十九世纪俱乐部会所内，为由该俱乐部成员组成的众多时髦听众发表了演讲。今晚，他将在礼堂就"印度教"这一主题发表演讲。
English
THE HINDOO MONK
(Appeal-Avalanche, January 16, 1894)
Swami Vive Kananda, the Hindoo monk, who is to lecture at the Auditorium [Memphis] tonight, is one of the most eloquent men who has ever appeared on the religious or lecture platform in this country. His matchless oratory, deep penetration into things occult, his cleverness in debate, and great earnestness captured the closest attention of the world's thinking men at the World's Fair Parliament of Religion, and the admiration of thousands of people who have since heard him during his lecture tour through many of the states of the Union.
In conversation he is a most pleasant gentleman; his choice of words are the gems of the English language, and his general bearing ranks him with the most cultured people of Western etiquette and custom. As a companion he is a most charming man, and as a conversationalist he is, perhaps, not surpassed in the drawing-rooms of any city in the Western World. He speaks English not only distinctly, but fluently, and his ideas, as new as sparkling, drop from his tongue in a perfectly bewildering overflow of ornamental language.
Swami Vive Kananda, by his inherited religion or early teachings, grew up a Brahmin, but becoming converted to the Hindoo religion he sacrificed his rank and became a Hindoo priest, or as known in the country of oriental ideality, a sanyasin. He had always been a close student of the wonderful and mysterious works of nature as drawn from God's high conception, and with years spent as both a student and teacher in the higher colleges of that eastern country, he acquired a knowledge that has given him a worldwide reputation as one of the most thoughtful scholars of the age.
His wonderful first address before the members of the World's Fair Parliament stamped him at once as a leader in that great body of religious thinkers. During the session he was frequently heard in defence of his religion, and some of the most beautiful and philosophical gems that grace the English language rolled from his lips there in picturing the higher duties that man owed to man and to his Creator. He is an artist in thought, an idealist in belief and a dramatist on the platform.
Since his arrival in Memphis he has been guest of Mr. Hu L. Brinkley, where he has received calls day and evening from many in Memphis who desired to pay their respects to him. He is also an informal guest at the Tennessee Club and was a guest at the reception given by Mrs. S. R. Shepherd, Saturday evening. Col. R. B. Snowden gave a dinner at his home at Annesdale in honor of the distinguished visitor on Sunday, where he met Assistant Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, Rev. Dr. George Patterson and a number of other clergymen.
Yesterday afternoon he lectured before a large and fashionable audience composed of the members of the Nineteenth Century Club in the rooms of the club in the Randolph Building. Tonight he will be heard at the Auditorium on "Hindooism".
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