Rajayoga

[Guest guest]

Dear Kristen,

 

Jay sent on your letter to me about Swami Vivekananda's Raja-Yoga. The

information you are looking for is all in Marie Louise Burke's Swami

Vivekananda in the West: New Discoveries: The World Teacher (Volumes 3 and

4 of the series). [This 6 volume series was published in Calcutta in the

1980s.] In volumes 3 and 4 she gets into when the classes were given, how

they were edited and a general gist of their content. The material was

published, by the way, both in England and in the USA. There was quite a

squabble over it; Marie Louise gets into all of that in her books.

Swami Vivekananda mentions Raja-Yoga quite a bit in his letters, specially

during his second visit to the West, when he found that the book had

prepared the ground for him considerably. I get the impression that this

work had the biggest impact on the West during his lifetime. It was

published commercially in the USA right up to 1930, which speaks for its

importance.

 

From your address, I gather you are at the University of Manitoba. Marie

Louise's books are pretty standard and are to be found in many university

libraries. I feel sure you could get a copy of volumes 3 and of this

series on an interlibrary loan without much difficulty.

 

With best wishes,

Sister Gayatriprana

 

PS: If there is a summary of the conference I would love to see a copy.

Where is the conference being held? It is interesting to know that people

are getting into Swamiji to this extent Please keep me posted.

Gp