The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Mayavati Memorial Edition. Vols. !-VII (complete).

Almora, Himalayas: Swami Pavitrananda/Advaita Ashrama, 1946-47. Fourth edition of this compilation of Vivekanamda's teachings. Seven octavo volumes with separate index. Various paginations. Publisher's teal cloth with gilt spine lettering and with the Ashram's gilt device at thed base of ever spine. Previous owner's name on front endpaper (not unattractive). The separated index is in wrappers with soe wear. The set is very good; clean and with no real issues.Swami Vivekananda was a man on a serious quest to find someone who had seen God. He found this person in Swami Ramakrishna and became his most devout disciple. fter Sri Ramakrishna's passing in 1886, Vivekananda renounced the world and crisscrossed India as a wandering monk. His mounting compassion for India's people drove him to seek material help from the West. Accepting an opportunity to represent Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of Religions in 1893, Vivekananda won instant celebrity in America and a ready forum for his spiritual teaching. For three years he spread the Vedanta philosophy and religion in America and England and then returned to India to found the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. He passed away on July 4, 1902, after a brief second visit to the West" (IASOP). 'Comprising all his lectures, addresses and discourses delivered in Europe, America and India; all his writings in prose and poetry, together with translations of those written in Bengali and Sanskrit; reports of his interviews and his replies to the various addresses of welcome; his sayings and epistles,--private and public—original and translated; with a biography, glossary and index. Carefully revised & edited" (IASOP).