The Master As I Saw Him

The Master as I Saw Him, is a book famous for its chronicling of intensespiritual experiences from the life of Swami Vivekananda, as noted by his disciple—Sister Nivedita.The book is written in an easy to read fashion, such that any chapter can be opened and read without losing any continuity. Nevertheless, it has still been assigned an intermediate rating, mainly because the text pre-supposes a familiarity with Swami Vivekananda, India, her religious traditions and historical customs, which new readers having no prior basis may find difficult to understand.It is important to remember that this book was written over a 100 years ago, and so it presents a view of India of the past - a country tremendously weakened by its deeply entrenched social and religious prejudices such as the caste system, eating of food cooked at the hands of Brahmins only, child-marriage and the low status accorded to women, especially widows.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Contentss's Note — 51. Swami Vivekananda in London, 1895 — 112. Swami Vivekananda in London, 1896 — 193. The Conflict of Ideals — 304. Swami Vivekananda and the Order of Ramakrishna — 415. Wanderings in Northern India — 586. The Awakener of Souls — 657. Flashes from the Beacon-fire — 708. Amarnath — 769. Kshir Bhowani — 8010. Calcutta and the Holy Women — 8711. The Swami and Motherworship — 10012. Half-way Across the World — 10713. Glimpses of the Saints — 11414. Past and Future in India — 11915. On Hinduism — 12416. Glimpses in the West — 13217. The Swami's Mission Considered as a Whole — 13818. Swami Vivekananda and his Attitude to Buddha — 15119. The Swami's Estimate of Historic Christianity — 16320. Woman and the People — 16821. His Method of Training a Western Worker — 18022. Monasticism and Marriage — 19123. Our Master's Relation to Psychic Phenomena So- — called — 20224. The Swami's Teaching About Death — 21025. Super-consciousness — 22226. The Passing of the Swami — 23227. The End — 238