The Lion of Vedanta: An Invitation
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The morning session of the Parliament of the World's Religions had already run long, and the man in the ochre robe had not meant to speak at all that day. He had been sitting through it since the opening processional, one figure among hundreds on the platform of the Hall of Columbus at the Art Institute of Chicago, watching bishops and rabbis and Buddhist priests and Confucian scholars rise one after another to read prepared remarks to seven thousand people packed into a hall built for far fewer. He wore a turban of orange and a broad crimson sash, and against the dark frock coats and clerical collars around him he looked like a flame someone had forgotten to put out. Delegates had been glancing at him all morning — the American papers would later admit as much — wondering who the striking dark man was who had not yet said a word. He had come to America with no institution behind him, no letters of introduction that carried real weight, no fixed place among the officially invited delegates. He was, in the plainest sense, a nobody in that room. And by four o'clock, when the session was finally drawing to its close and Dr.
9 movements, carrying the whole life of Swami Vivekananda from beginning to enduring memory.
- Two Minutes of Thunder
- The Boy Who Would Not Believe Easily
- The Garden at Dakshineswar
- The Master Leaves, the Fire Remains
- Arise, Awake, and Stop Not
- Each Soul Is Potentially Divine
- The Lion Grows Tired
- Belur Math, Where the Flame Still Burns
- The Doorway
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