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Periodical: Message of the East

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Message of the East.
Vedanta Monthly.
Other titles: Vedanta Monthly
1912--1964
Monthly, quarterly
Boston, MA.
Language: English.
Publisher: Vedanta Centre.
1/1, January 1912-1964.
$1.00 a year, 16 pp.

This was the journal of Swami Paramananda (1884-1940), a Bengali student of Swami Vivekananda who was dispatched to the United States by the Ramakrishna Order. It contained schedules of talks, services and classes for medication and practical spiritual training at the Vedanta Center in Boston, together with translations of Indian spiritual classics and articles by Vivekananda, Sister Devamata, G.C. Ghosh, et al., on Paramananda's views on universalism and practical mysticism leading to self-mastery.

Other Sources:
Issues:Message Of The East V01 1912
Message Of The East V02 1913
Message Of The East V03 1914
Message Of The East V04 1915
Message Of The East V05 1916
Message Of The East V06 1917
Message Of The East V07 1918
Message Of The East V08 1919
Message Of The East V09 1920
Message Of The East V10 1921
Message Of The East V11 1922
Message Of The East V12 1923
Message Of The East V13 1924
Message Of The East V14 1925
Message Of The East V15 1926
Message Of The East V16 1927
Message Of The East V17 1928
Message Of The East V18 1929
Message Of The East V20 1931
Message Of The East V21 1932
Message Of The East V24 1935
Message Of The East V25 1936
Message Of The East V28 1939
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Message of the East was a Vedanta review in the Ramakrishna–Vivekananda lineage, issued from the American Vedanta Centre milieu around Swami Paramananda in Boston. Its concern is Advaita Vedanta expounded for a Western readership: the discipline of dissolving the ego so that the Soul — 'the reality' — may be freed, the ideal of unselfish work, and the way devotion and prayer enrich both inner and outer life. It is systematic Hindu philosophy and comparative religion rather than any séance-room or mind-cure interest, and stands among the channels by which classical Indian thought reached Anglophone audiences. Its karmic and yogic vocabulary is doctrinal, not spiritualist.

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Topics:Yoga and Vedanta