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Translations: Poems

The Hymn of Samadhi

(Rendered from Bengali )

Lo! The sun is not, nor the comely moon,
All light extinct; in the great void of space
Floats shadow-like the image-universe.

In the void of mind involute, there floats
The fleeting universe, rises and floats,
Sinks again, ceaseless, in the current “I.”

Slowly, slowly, the shadow-multitude
Entered the primal womb, and flowed ceaseless,
The only current, the “I am”, “I am.”

Lo! ‘Tis stopped, ev’n that current flows no more,
Void merged into void—beyond speech and mind!
Whose heart understands, he verily does.

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Contents

Addresses on Bhakti-Yoga
  1. The Preparation
  2. The First Steps
  3. The Teacher of Spirituality
  4. The Need of Symbols
  5. The Chief Symbols
  6. The Ishta
Lectures and Discourses
  1. The Ramayana
  2. The Mahabharata
  3. Thoughts on the Gita
  4. The Story of Jada Bharata
  5. The Story of Prahlada
  6. The Great Teachers of the World
  7. On Lord Buddha
  8. Christ, the Messenger
  9. My Master
  10. Indian Religious Thought
  11. The Basis for Psychic or Spiritual Research
  12. On Art in India
  13. Is India a Benighted Country?
  14. The Claims of Religion
  15. Concentration
  16. Meditation
  17. The Practice of Religion
Writings: Prose
  1. Is the Soul Immortal?
  2. Reincarnation
  3. On Dr. Paul Deussen
  4. On Professor Max Müller
  5. Sketch of the Life of Pavhari Baba
  6. Aryans and Tamilians
  7. The Social Conference Address
  8. India's Message to the World
  9. Stray Remarks on Theosophy
  10. Reply to the Address of the Maharaja of Khetri
  11. Reply to the Madras Address
  12. A Message of Sympathy to a Friend
  13. What We Believe in
  14. Our Duty to the Masses
  15. Reply to the Calcutta Address
  16. To My Brave Boys
  17. A Plan of Work for India
  18. Fundamentals of Religion
Writings: Poems
  1. Kali the Mother
  2. Angels Unawares
  3. To the Awakened India
  4. Requiescat in Pace
  5. Hold on Yet a While, Brave Heart
  6. Nirvanashatkam, or Six Stanzas on Nirvana
  7. The Song of the Sannyâsin
  8. Peace
Translations: Prose
  1. The Problem of Modern India and its Solution
  2. Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings
  3. The Paris Congress of the History of Religions
  4. Knowledge: its Source and Acquirement
  5. Modern India
  6. The Education That India Needs
  7. Our Present Social Problems
Translations: Poems
  1. To a Friend
  2. The Hymn of Creation
  3. The Hymn of Samadhi
  4. A Hymn to the Divine Mother - अम्बास्तोत्रम्।
  5. A HYMN TO SHIVA शिवस्तोत्रम्
  6. A Hymn to the Divinity of Shri Ramakrishna
  7. "And Let Shyama Dance There"
  8. A Song I Sing to Thee