The Complete Works

Volume I

by Swami Vivekananda

The addresses at the Parliament of Religions, Karma-Yoga, Raja-Yoga with Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, and lectures.

50 items · about 12 hours of reading

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Contents

Addresses at the Parliament of Religions6 · 32 min
  1. Response to Welcome (11th September, 1893)2 min
  2. Why We Disagree2 min
  3. Paper on Hinduism22 min
  4. Religion Not the Crying Need of India1 min
  5. Buddhism, the Fulfillment of Hinduism4 min
  6. Address at the Final Session2 min
Karma-Yoga8 · 2 hr 18 min
  1. I. Karma in Its Effect on Character13 min
  2. II. Each Is Great in His Own Place24 min
  3. III. The Secret of Work16 min
  4. IV. What Is Duty?14 min
  5. V. We Help Ourselves, Not the World14 min
  6. VI. Non-Attachment Is Complete Self-Abnegation21 min
  7. VII. Freedom21 min
  8. VIII. The Ideal of Karma-Yoga16 min
Raja-Yoga9 · 1 hr 47 min
  1. Preface4 min
  2. I. Introductory18 min
  3. II. The First Steps15 min
  4. III. Prana20 min
  5. IV. The Psychic Prana9 min
  6. V. The Control of Psychic Prana7 min
  7. VI. Pratyahara and Dharana11 min
  8. VII. Dhyana and Samadhi15 min
  9. VIII. Raja-Yoga in Brief9 min
Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms6 · 2 hr 25 min
  1. Introduction8 min
  2. I. Concentration: Its Spiritual Uses47 min
  3. II. Concentration: Its Practice45 min
  4. III. Powers20 min
  5. IV. Independence19 min
  6. Appendix: References to Yoga6 min
Lectures and Discourses21 · 4 hr 59 min
  1. Soul, God and Religion18 min
  2. The Hindu Religion5 min
  3. What Is Religion?17 min
  4. Vedic Religious Ideals20 min
  5. The Vedanta Philosophy14 min
  6. Reason and Religion (Delivered in England)26 min
  7. Vedanta as a Factor in Civilisation5 min
  8. The Spirit and Influence of Vedanta8 min
  9. Steps of Hindu Philosophic Thought19 min
  10. Steps to Realisation19 min
  11. Vedanta and Privilege20 min
  12. Privilege (6th December, 1896)10 min
  13. Krishna (1st April 1900)12 min
  14. The Gita — I (26th May, 1900)18 min
  15. The Gita II11 min
  16. The Gita — III (29th May, 1900)20 min
  17. Mohammed's Message to the World (25th March 1900)5 min
  18. The Story of Vilvamangala5 min
  19. The Soul And God (23rd March 1900)21 min
  20. Breathing (28th March,1900)15 min
  21. Practical Religion: Breathing And Meditation (5th April 1900)12 min