The year that is about to end also marks half a century of the demise of twentieth century's greatest comic prose writer and master stylist Sir Pelham Grenville (P.G.) Wodehouse. He had authored …
An Outpouring of Pure Love : A Brief Sketch of Sri Ranchhoddas ji Maharaj
Sri Ranchhoddas ji Maharaj was a towering humanitarian saint whose name is largely restricted to the circle of his immediate disciples and other such persons who had the good fortune to come in touch …
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Swami Vivekananda in California: His Swansong
A fortnight in the Redwoods of Northern California
A notable time during the Swami’s stay in California was when he along with a group of friends and admirers retreated to a forest area, about thirty miles north of San Francisco in the Marine County. …
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Arrival and Stay in Alameda (East Bay)
On 11th April, after having their dinner at their Turk Street Apartment in San Francisco, Swamiji, Alice Hansborough, and Mr. Aspinall took the streetcar and then the ferry across the Bay to what …
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Intensely Touching Lives – Frank Rhodehamel and Some Other Blessed Ones
Frank Rhodehamel was a young man in his late twenties living with his wife in Oakland. He has written elaborate memoirs of meeting Swamiji in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also took very detailed …
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