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Thiruvalluvar
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Ganesh Ghosh
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Jagadish Chandra Bose
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Swami Vivekananda’s Poem
WHEN I ASKED GOD FOR STRENGTH ,HE GAVE ME DIFFICULT SITUATIONS TO FACE . WHEN I ASKED GOD FOR BRAIN...
Bold and fearless with an exceptionally strong common sense
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Be Bold.. Be Strong.. Be Heroes..
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Bring light to the ignorant and bring more light to the intelligent..
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Power of concentration
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Honesty and Truth are the best policy
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Addresses at the Parliament of Religions – 4(Religion Not the Crying Need of India)
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Addresses at the Parliament of Religions – 5(Buddhism, the Fulfillment of Hinduism)
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Karma- Yoga (Chapter- III) The Secret of Work
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Karma-Yoga (Chapter- IV) What is Duty?
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Karma-Yoga (Chapter- V) We Help ourselves, Not The World
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Karma-Yoga (Chapter- VI) Non-Attachment is Complete Self-Abnegation
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Karma-Yoga (Chapter- VII) Freedom
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Karma-Yoga (Chapter- VIII) The Real Ideal of Karma-Yoga
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Lectures and Discourses- The Hindu Religion
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Lectures and Discourses- Vedic Religious Ideals
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Lectures and Discourses- The Vedanta Philosophy
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Lectures and Discourses- Reason and Religion
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Lectures and Discourses- Vedanta as a Factor in Civilisation
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Lectures and Discourses- The Spirit and Influence of Vedanta
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Lectures and Discourses- Steps of Hindu Philosophic Thought
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Lectures and Discourses- Steps to Realisation
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Lectures and Discourses- Vedanta and Privilege
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Lectures and Discourses- Privilege
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Lectures and Discourses- Krishna
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Lectures and Discourses- The Gita I
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Lectures and Discourses- The Gita II
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Lectures and Discourses- The Gita III
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Lectures and Discourses- Mohammed
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Lectures and Discourses- Vilvamangala
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Lectures and Discourses- The Soul and God
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Lectures and Discourses- Breathing
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Lectures and Discourses- Practicle Religion: Breathing and Meditation
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Volume 2- Work and It’s Secret
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Volume 2- The Powers of the Mind
Volume 2 The Powers of the Mind (Delivered at Los Angeles, California, January 8, 1900) All over the world there...
Volume 2- Hints on Practicle Spirituality
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Volume 2- Bhakti Or Devotion
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- I) The Necessity of Religion
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- II) The Real Nature of Man
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- III) Maya and Illusion
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- IV) Maya and The Evolution of The Conception of God
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- V) Maya and Freedom
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- VI) The Absolute and Manifestation
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- VII) God in Everything
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- VIII) Realisation
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- IX) Unity in Diversity
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- X) The Freedom of The Soul
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- XI) The Cosmos: The Macrocosm
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- XI) The Cosmos: The Microcosm
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- XII) Immortality
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- XIII) The Atman
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- XIV) The Atman:It’s Bondage and Freedom
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Volume 2- Jnana-Yoga (Chapter- XV) The Real and The Apparent Man
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Volume 2- (Practical Vedanta and other lectures) Practicle Vedanta Part I
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Volume 2- (Practical Vedanta and other lectures) Practicle Vedanta Part II
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Volume 2- (Practical Vedanta and other lectures) Practicle Vedanta Part III
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Volume 2- (Practical Vedanta and other lectures) Practicle Vedanta Part IV
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Volume 2- (Practical Vedanta and other lectures) The Way to The Realisation of A Universal Religion
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Volume 2- (Practical Vedanta and other lectures) The Ideal of A Universal Religion
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Volume 2- (Practical Vedanta and other lectures) The Open Secret
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Volume 2- (Practical Vedanta and other lectures) The Way to Blessedness
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Volume 2- (Practical Vedanta and other lectures) Yajnavalka and Maitreyi
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Volume 2- (Practical Vedanta and other lectures) Soul, Nature and Lectures
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Volume 2- (Practical Vedanta and other lectures) A Study of the Sankhya Philosophy
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Volume 2- (Practical Vedanta and other lectures) Sankhya and Vedanta
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Volume 2- (Practical Vedanta and other lectures) The Goal
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Volume 2- (Reports in American Newspapers) Divinity of Man
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Volume 2- (Reports in American Newspapers) Swamy Vivekananda on India
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Volume 2- (Reports in American Newspapers) Religious Harmony
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Volume 2- (Reports in American Newspapers) From far off India
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Volume 2- (Reports in American Newspapers) An Evening with our Hindu Cousins
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Volume 2- (Reports in American Newspapers) The Manners and Customs Of India
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Volume 2- (Reports in American Newspapers) The Religions of India
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Volume 2- (Reports in American Newspapers) Sects and Doctrines in India
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Volume 2- (Reports in American Newspapers) Less Doctrines and more Bread
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