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Periodical: Pacific Vedantist

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Pacific Vedantist, The.
A Monthly Journal Devoted to Vedanta Philosophy and All Noble Thoughts.
That which exists is one, sages call it variously. Rigveda
Other titles: The Pacific Vedantin (with vol. 1, no. 3)
1902
Monthly
San Francisco, CA.
Language: English.
Publisher: Vedanta Society of San Francisco.
Succeeded by: Brahmavadin
1/1, January 1902.
20 pp., $1.00 a year.

This was a standard Vedanta journal put out by the followers of Swami Vivekananda in San Francisco. It contained lengthy discourses by the swami and accounts of doings of the society and its missionaries internationally and on the West Coast.

Other Sources:
Issues:Pacific Vedantist V1 1902
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Pacific Vedantist was the 1902 magazine of the Vedanta Society of San Francisco, one of the earliest American organs of the Ramakrishna–Vivekananda mission. Its pages teach Advaita Vedanta directly — the soul as already 'pure and perfect,' the limits of a personal God, the play of causation in the phenomenal world — in the confident universalist voice Vivekananda brought west. Karma and reincarnation appear as doctrine, and 'concentration,' 'the silence,' and breath-control as yoga, not as the New-Thought mind-cure whose vocabulary they superficially resemble. It belongs squarely to Hindu religious philosophy, an early channel for Vedanta on the American Pacific coast.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Yoga and Vedanta