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...
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...
Swami Vivekananda—The mighty harbinger of Vedanta to the West 9/11/1893
On September 11th, 1893 the unknown Sannyasin Swami Vivekananda appeared on the American soil at the Parliament of Religion in Chicago and presented for the first time in a formal...
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...
THE SHAD-DARSHANAS—HINDU PHILOSOPHY—Part 2
The Orthodox and the Heterodox Systems of Indian Philosophy
The six systems of Indian philosophy or the Shad-Darshanas are the six orthodox systems of philosophy. They are the six ways of looking at the Truth. They are...
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,...
Hindu Philosophy—Part 14
The Visishtadvaita System—The Story of Its Evolution
The Visishtadvaita system is an ancient one. It was originally expounded...