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This booklet published by Advaita Ashrama contains the prophetic and epochal lectures delivered by Swami Vivekananda at the World Parliament of Religions, Chicago, in 1893.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I have heard this speech on YouTube 6times and counting. Always wanted to read as you have to 100% in with no distractions to fully understand the different topics covered. Blessed that I came across this book to relive those moments by reading at my place everyday
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Chicago Addresses - Swami Vivekananda
CHICAGO
ADDRESSES
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Ashram_Logo(Publication Department)
5 Dehi Entally Road
Kolkata 700 014
Published by
The Adhyaksha
Advaita Ashrama
P.O. Mayavati, Dt. Champawat
Uttarakhand 262524, India
from its Publication Department, Kolkata
Email: mail@advaitaashrama.org
Website: www.advaitaashrama.org
© All rights reserved
ISBN 978-81-7505-802-6 (ebook)
ISBN 978-81-7505-138-6 (Print Book)
First Ebook Edition - October 2015
Contents
Publisher’s Note
The Background Story
Response to Welcome
Why We Disagree
Paper on Hinduism
Religion Not the Crying Need of India
Buddhism: The Fulfilment of Hinduism
Address at the Final Session
Appendix
Publisher’s Note to the
Twenty-third Impression
In the present impression which is being published on the occasion of the Centenary of Swami Vivekananda’s participation at the Parliament of Religions we have added a background story of the inspiring circumstances that made Swami Vivekananda’s appearance on the platform of the Parliament of Religions in 1893 possible. In the appendix we have presented to our readers what many eminent persons wrote about Swamiji and his speeches at the Parliament. Sanskrit quotations referred to by Swamiji in his speeches have also been provided with in the endnotes together with their references to source-books. It is hoped that these renovations will help the readers to understand and appreciate Swami Vivekananda and his message delivered at Chicago in a deeper way.
11 September 1993
PUBLISHER
THE BACKGROUND STORY
A Wandering Monk in Search of a Way
After the passing away of Sri Ramakrishna in August 1886, Swami Vivekananda spent several years in intense spiritual practices, first in the newly established Ramakrishna Monastery at Baranagore, and later at other places, such as the plains of northern India and the Himalayas. He often wanted to enter the deepest Indian forests to lose himself in silent meditation, but every time some obstacle or other — sometimes the sickness of a brother monk, sometimes the death of a devotee — brought him back to a society beset with a thousand and one miseries. He gradually realized that he was not meant to live the life of an ordinary recluse, struggling for personal salvation. He was destined to work for the divine mission entrusted to him by his Master, Sri Ramakrishna. The Master had told him before his passing away that he would have to do `Mother’s work’, to `teach mankind’, and `to be like a banyan tree, giving shelter to the tired, weary travelers.’ At this time he felt an inner urge to wander alone over the length and breadth of India in search of a plan of action to follow.
In January 1891, leaving the company of his brother monks, he wandered from place to place, alone with God. At first he travelled in the north and later he went to the south, all the while studying closely the life of the people in every class of society. He was deeply moved by this experience. He wept to see the stagnant life of the Indian masses crushed down by ignorance and poverty, and was disturbed by the spell of materialistic ideas he noticed among the educated, who blindly imitated the glamour of the West. He saw that spirituality was at a low ebb in the land of its birth. The picture of ancient India appeared before his eyes vividly in all its