Swami Vivekananda Addresses the World Parliament of Religions

I’m preparing a brief paper on the meeting of Unitarians and Universalists and the renowned Swami Vivekananda. I was lamenting some of the difficulties and lack of resources that I found useful, when a friend pointed me to Youtube and a clip of the swami’s opening remarks.

I was quite taken with it. I particularly thrilled at hearing his voice. It was commanding and I felt a sense of the charisma people remarked of about this remarkable spiritual teacher. It took perhaps half an hour before my more critical side took over. The quickest research revealed that in fact the technology of the time would not have allowed for such an extensive recording. Totally bogus.

That said, hearing the remarks, and the voice is just perfect, rather than merely reading them might prove as inspiring to you as they were for me.

So, here you go…