The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Lectures, Letters, and Essays on Vedanta, Raja Yoga, Self-Realization, and Service to HumanityBy Swami Vivekananda
Length158h 10m
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The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda gathers lectures, essays, letters, conversations, poems, and translations that articulate a wide-ranging vision of Vedanta, yoga, religion, ethics, education, and social service. Moving between philosophical exposition, devotional reflection, polemic, and intimate correspondence, the collection reveals Vivekananda's ability to translate Sanskritic concepts into compelling modern English without entirely effacing their metaphysical depth. Written amid colonial India's encounter with Western modernity and the late nineteenth-century comparative study of religion, these texts connect Advaita Vedanta with practical spirituality, universal religious fellowship, and disciplined action. Together, they form both a substantial literary archive and a foundational document of modern Hindu thought. Born Narendranath Datta in 1863, Vivekananda became the foremost disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, whose experiential mysticism deeply shaped his intellectual and spiritual development. His appearance at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago established him as an influential interpreter of Hinduism abroad, while his subsequent teaching in India and the West encouraged a synthesis of contemplation, service, and national renewal. The collection preserves the development of these ideas across changing audiences and circumstances. This edition is essential for readers seeking a direct encounter with Vivekananda's thought rather than a simplified biography or secondary interpretation. It will reward students of religion, philosophy, colonial intellectual history, and global literary culture, while offering general readers an unusually vivid record of a thinker who made spiritual universalism a program for individual and social transformation.
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Publish dateFeb 12, 2026
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Table of contents
1Sadhana – The Realisation of Life (Annotated)
2Addresses at The Parliament of Religions
3Karma-Yoga
4CHAPTER II EACH IS GREAT IN HIS OWN PLACE
5CHAPTER III THE SECRET OF WORK
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6CHAPTER IV WHAT IS DUTY?
7CHAPTER V WE HELP OURSELVES, NOT THE WORLD
8CHAPTER VI NON-ATTACHMENT IS COMPLETE SELF-ABNEGATION
9CHAPTER VII FREEDOM
10CHAPTER VIII THE IDEAL OF KARMA-YOGA
11Raja-Yoga
12CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
13CHAPTER II THE FIRST STEPS
14CHAPTER III PRANA
15CHAPTER IV THE PSYCHIC PRANA
16CHAPTER V THE CONTROL OF PSYCHIC PRANA
17CHAPTER VI PRATYAHARA AND DHARANA
18CHAPTER VII DHYANA AND SAMADHI
19CHAPTER VIII RAJA-YOGA IN BRIEF
20Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms
21CHAPTER I CONCENTRATION: ITS SPIRITUAL USES
22CHAPTER II CONCENTRATION: ITS PRACTICE
23CHAPTER III POWERS
24CHAPTER IV INDEPENDENCE
25Lectures And Discourses (pt. 1)
26Lectures And Discourses (pt. 2)
27Lectures And Discourses (pt. 3)
28Work and its Secret
29The Powers of the Mind
30Hints on Practical Spirituality
31Bhakti or Devotion
32Jnana-Yoga
33CHAPTER II THE REAL NATURE OF MAN
34CHAPTER III MAYA AND ILLUSION
35CHAPTER IV MAYA AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPTION OF GOD
36CHAPTER V MAYA AND FREEDOM
37CHAPTER VI THE ABSOLUTE AND MANIFESTATION
38CHAPTER VII GOD IN EVERYTHING
39CHAPTER VIII REALISATION
40CHAPTER IX UNITY IN DIVERSITY
41CHAPTER X THE FREEDOM OF THE SOUL
42CHAPTER XI THE COSMOS: The Macrocosm
43CHAPTER XII THE COSMOS: The Microcosm
44CHAPTER XIII IMMORTALITY
45CHAPTER XIV THE ATMAN
46CHAPTER XV THE ATMAN: ITS BONDAGE AND FREEDOM
47CHAPTER XVI THE REAL AND THE APPARENT MAN
48Practical Vedanta and other lectures (pt. 1)
49Practical Vedanta and other lectures (pt. 2)
50Practical Vedanta and other lectures (pt. 3)
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