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Anatomy of a pilgrimage (Sringeri edition)

Vishy KurugantiJuly 02, 20177 mins

[Editor’s Note: My mother is a late adopter of the Internet. In the pre-Internet era, she used to write the loveliest of letters to her children. The letters stopped after I returned to India. In the…

How Hinduism is different from all other religions

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 13, 20143 mins

Pic courtesy uttaranchal.org.uk [Editor’s Note: Swami Vivekananda opines on how Hinduism is different from all other religions. The emphasis in the excerpts are all mine. This is but a partial extract…

Swami Vivekananda on Spiritual Conquest (Part 2)

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 12, 20135 mins

[Editor’s Prelude] This is Part 2 of a two-part blog series on Swami Vivekananda’s ideas on spiritual conquest – from a talk titled The Work Before Us delivered at the Triplicane Literary Society…

Swami Vivekananda on Spiritual Conquest

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 12, 20138 mins

*[Editor’s Prelude] Was Swami Vivekananda the first ambassador of Hinduism to the West? The more one reads of his writings and lectures, one begin to realize that he was possibly Hinduism’s first (and…

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