Celebrating Swami Vivekananda 163 years later
The Hindu Media Guyana (THMG) joins the world in observing the Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary today January 12. On September 11th, 1893 the unknown Sannyasin Swami Vivekananda appeared on the American soil at the...
Mahabharata Series by Swami Vivekananda Part 6
Now, both parties alike wished to secure the alliance of Krishna. But he declined to take an active part and fight in this war, but offered himself as charioteer to Arjuna, and as the...
Mahabharata Series by Swami Vivekananda Part 5
Now, as the thirteenth year of the exile was drawing nigh, the Yaksha bade the Pandavas to go to Virata’s kingdom and live there in such disguises as they would think best. So,...
Sri Krishna: The Greatest Exemplifier of Non-attachment
The central figure of the Gita is Krishna. Hindus worship many Incarnations of God. They believe in not one or two only, but in many, who have come down from time to...
The Guru
Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection. Whatever we are now is the result of our acts and thoughts in the past; and whatever we shall...
Mahabharata Series by Swami Vivekananda Part 4
We left the Pandava brothers in exile. Even there they were not allowed to remain unmolested from the evil plots of Duryodhana; but all of them were futile.
A story of their forest life,...
Mahabharata Series by Swami Vivekananda Part 3
The four younger brothers (Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva) went out with armies on a conquering expedition, each in a different direction, and brought all the kings under subjection to Yudhishthira. Returning, they laid...
Mahabharata Series by Swami Vivekananda Part 2
I told you last night of the peculiar form of the ancient Indian marriage. It was called Svayamvara, that is, the choosing of the husband by the princess. A great gathering of princes...
Mahabharata Series by Swami Vivekananda Part 1
The other epic about which I am going to speak to you this evening, is called the Mahâbhârata. It contains the story of a race descended from King Bharata, who was the...
Swami Vivekananda’s world famous address to Parliament of Religion, September 11, 1893
Swami Vivekananda, the unknown monk who rose to world fame at the Parliament of Religion in Chicago on September 11th, 1893 who is credited to have brought...
