Why Build Places of Worship? – Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda in the book Raja Yoga is deciphering and explaining Yoga Sutras by Patanjali. While explaining these in the 70th Sutra (out of 195 Sutras), Swami Vivekananda has made a very important & interesting argument on places of worship and holy people. He also questions, why is it important to worship god (if at…
Raja Yoga Introduction – Swami Vivekananda
This post captures the introduction of Raja Yoga and Swami Vivekananda’s commentary on religion. Knowledge from experience All our knowledge is based upon experience. What we call inferential knowledge, in which we go from the less to the more general, or from the general to the particular, has experience as its basis. In what are…