Swami Vivekananda                           

TEACHINGS

BOOKS ONLINE BY THE SWAMI

• Bhakti Yoga
  1. Chapter 1: Definition of Bhakti
  2. Chapter 2: The Philosophy of Isvara
  3. Chapter 3: Spiritual realisation, the aim of Bhakti Yoga
  4. Chapter 4: The need of Guru
  5. Chapter 5: Qualifications of the Aspirant and the Teacher
  6. Chapter 6: Incarnate Teachers and incarnation
  7. Chapter 7: The Mantra: Om: word and wisdom
  8. Chapter 8: Worship of substitutes and images
  9. Chapter 9: The chosen ideal
  10. Chapter 10: The method and the means
• Jnana Yoga
  1. Table of Contents
  2. Chapter 1: The necessity of religion
  3. Chapter 2: The real nature of man
  4. Chapter 3: Maya and illusion
  5. Chapter 4: Maya and the evolution of the conception of God
  6. Chapter 5: Maya and Freedom
  7. Chapter 6: The Absolute and Manifestation
  8. Chapter 7: God in everything
  9. Chapter 8: Realisation
  10. Chapter 9: Unity in Diversity
  11. Chapter 10: The freedom of the soul
  12. Chapter 11: The cosmos: The macrocosm
  13. Chapter 12: The cosmos: The microcosm
  14. Chapter 13: Immortality
  15. Chapter 14: The Atman
  16. Chapter 15: The atman: its bondage and freedom
  17. Chapter 16: The real and the apparent man
• Karma Yoga
  1. Table of Contents
  2. Chapter 1: Karma in its effect on character
  3. Chapter 2: Each is great in his own place
  4. Chapter 3: The secret of work
  5. Chapter 4: What is duty?
  6. Chapter 5: We help ourselves, not the world
  7. Chapter 6: Non-attachment is the complete self-abnegation
  8. Chapter 7: Freedom
  9. Chapter 8: The ideal of Karma Yoga
• Lectures from Colombo to Almora
  1. First public lecture in the East
  2. Vedantism
  3. Reply to the address of welcome at Pamban
  4. Address at the Rameswaram Temple on real worship
  5. Reply to the address of welcome at Ramnad
  6. Reply to the address of welcome at Paramakudi
  7. Reply to the address of welcome at Shivaganga and Manamadura
  8. Reply to the address of welcome at Madura
  9. The mission of the Vedanta
  10. Reply to the address of welcome at Madras
  11. My plan of campaign
  12. Vedanta in its application to Indian life
  13. The sages of India
  14. The work before us
  15. The future of India
  16. On Charity
  17. Address of welcome presented at Calcutta and reply
  18. The Vedanta in all its phases
  19. Address of welcome at Almora and reply
  20. Vedic teaching in theory and practice
  21. Bhakti
  22. The common bases of Hinduism
  23. Bhakti
  24. The Vedanta
  25. Vedantism
  26. The influence of Indian spiritual thought in England
  27. Sannyasa: Its ideal and practice
  28. What have I learnt?
  29. The religion we are born in
• Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
  1. Chapter 1
  2. Chapter 2
  3. Chapter 3
  4. Chapter 4
  5. Chapter 5
  6. Chapter 6
  7. Chapter 7
  8. Chapter 8
  9. Chapter 9
  10. Chapter 10
• Raja Yoga
  1. Table of Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter 1: Introductory
  4. Chapter 2: The first steps
  5. Chapter 3: Prana
  6. Chapter 4: Psychic of Prana
  7. Chapter 5: The control of psychic Prana
  8. Chapter 6: Pratyahara and Dharana
  9. Chapter 7: Dhyana and Samadhi
  10. Chapter 8: Raja Yoga in brief