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    Chicago Addresses
    Chicago Addresses
    Chicago Addresses
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    Chicago Addresses

    By Swami Vivekananda

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAdvaita Ashrama
    Release dateDec 17, 2015
    ISBN9788175058026
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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

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