The Science and Philosophy of Religion

by Swami Vivekananda

Table of Contents:

1. Publisher's Note
2. Editor's Preface
3. Introduction
4. The Samkhya Cosmology
5. Prakriti and Purusha
6. Samkhya and Advaita
7. The Free Soul
8. One Existence Appearing as Many
9. Unity of the Self
10. The Highest Ideal of Jnana Yoga.

About the Author:

Swami Vivekananda inspiring personality was well known both in India and in America during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. The unknown monk of India suddenly leapt into fame at the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893, at which he represented Hinduism. His vast knowledge of Eastern and Western culture as well as his deep spiritual insight, fervid eloquence, brilliant conversation, broad human sympathy, colorful personality, and handsome figure made an irresistible appeal to the many types of Americans who came in contact with him. People who saw or heard Vivekananda even once still cherish his memory after a lapse of more than half a century.

The Swami's mission was both national and international. A lover of mankind, he strove to promote peace and human brotherhood on the spiritual foundation of the Vedantic Oneness of existence. A mystic of the highest order, Vivekananda had a direct and intuitive experience of Reality. He derived his ideas from that unfailing source of wisdom and often presented them in the soul stirring language of poetry.