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	"First is the conscious plane; that is to say that sort of work which is always accompanied with the feeling of egoism. That part of mind-work which is unaccompanied with feeling of egoism is unconscious work, and that part which is accompanied with the feeling of egoism is conscious work. In the lower animals this unconscious work is called instinct. In higher animals, and in the highest of animals, man, the second part, that which is accompanied with the feeling of egoism, prevails, and is called conscious work. But it does not end here. There is a still higher plane upon which the mind can work. It can go beyond consciousness. Just as unconscious work is beneath consciousness, so there is another work which is above consciousness, and which, also, is not accompanied with the feeling of egoism. The feeling of egoism is only on the middle plane. When the mind is above or below that line there is no feeling of “I,” and yet the mind works. When the mind goes beyond this line of self-consciousness it is called Samadhi, or super-consciousness. It is above consciousness" <ref>Vivekananda, Swami. Raja Yoga. Leeds, England: Press, 2003. p. 62. https://ia801208.us.archive.org/14/items/RajaYogaBySwamiVivekananda/Raja-Yoga-by-Swami-Vivekananda.pdf</ref>		"We have, then, two planes in which the human mind is working. First is the conscious plane; that is to say that sort of work which is always accompanied with the feeling of egoism. That part of mind-work which is unaccompanied with feeling of egoism is unconscious work, and that part which is accompanied with the feeling of egoism is conscious work. In the lower animals this unconscious work is called instinct. In higher animals, and in the highest of animals, man, the second part, that which is accompanied with the feeling of egoism, prevails, and is called conscious work. But it does not end here. There is a still higher plane upon which the mind can work. It can go beyond consciousness. Just as unconscious work is beneath consciousness, so there is another work which is above consciousness, and which, also, is not accompanied with the feeling of egoism. The feeling of egoism is only on the middle plane. When the mind is above or below that line there is no feeling of “I,” and yet the mind works. When the mind goes beyond this line of self-consciousness it is called Samadhi, or super-consciousness. It is above consciousness" <ref>Vivekananda, Swami. Raja Yoga. Leeds, England: Press, 2003. p. 62. https://ia801208.us.archive.org/14/items/RajaYogaBySwamiVivekananda/Raja-Yoga-by-Swami-Vivekananda.pdf</ref>

	"How, for instance, do we know that a man in Samadhi has not gone below his consciousness, has not degenerated,		"How, for instance, do we know that a man in Samadhi has not gone below his consciousness, has not degenerated,
	instead of going higher? In both cases the works are unaccompanied by egoism? The answer is, by the effects,		instead of going higher? In both cases the works are unaccompanied by egoism? The answer is, by the effects,
	by the results of the work, we know that which is below, and that which is above. When a man goes into deep sleep he enters a plane beneath consciousness. He works the body all the time, he breathes, he moves the body, perhaps, in his sleep, without any accompanying feeling of ego; he is unconscious, and when he returns from his sleep he is the same man who went into it. The sum-total of the knowledge which he hap[sic] before he went into the sleep remains the same; it has not increased at all. No enlightenment has come. But if a man goes into Samadhi, if he goes into it a fool, he comes out a sage. What makes the difference? From one state a man comes out the very same man that went in, and out of another state the man becomes enlightened, a sage, a prophet, a saint, his whole character changed, his life changed, illumined. These are the two effects. Now the effects being different, the causes must be different. As this illumination, with which a man comes back from Samadhi, is much higher than can be got from unconsciousness, or much higher than can be got by reasoning in a conscious state, it must therefore be superconsciousness, and Samadhi is called the super-conscious state.		by the results of the work, we know that which is below, and that which is above. When a man goes into deep sleep he enters a plane beneath consciousness. He works the body all the time, he breathes, he moves the body, perhaps, in his sleep, without any accompanying feeling of ego; he is unconscious, and when he returns from his sleep he is the same man who went into it. The sum-total of the knowledge which he hap[sic] before he went into the sleep remains the same; it has not increased at all. No enlightenment has come. But if a man goes into Samadhi, if he goes into it a fool, he comes out a sage. What makes the difference? From one state a man comes out the very same man that went in, and out of another state the man becomes enlightened, a sage, a prophet, a saint, his whole character changed, his life changed, illumined. These are the two effects. Now the effects being different, the causes must be different. As this illumination, with which a man comes back from Samadhi, is much higher than can be got from unconsciousness, or much higher than can be got by reasoning in a conscious state, it must therefore be superconsciousness, and Samadhi is called the super-conscious state."
	~~This,~~"
	<ref>Vivekananda, Swami. Raja Yoga. Leeds, England: Press, 2003. p. 62-3. https://ia801208.us.archive.org/14/items/RajaYogaBySwamiVivekananda/Raja-Yoga-by-Swami-Vivekananda.pdf</ref>		<ref>Vivekananda, Swami. Raja Yoga. Leeds, England: Press, 2003. p. 62-3. https://ia801208.us.archive.org/14/items/RajaYogaBySwamiVivekananda/Raja-Yoga-by-Swami-Vivekananda.pdf</ref>

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	"Even at the present day, we see women in India managing vast estates with great ability. There were two ladies where I was born who were the proprietors of large estates and patronesses of learning and art and who managed these estates with their own brains and looked to every detail of the business."		"Even at the present day, we see women in India managing vast estates with great ability. There were two ladies where I was born who were the proprietors of large estates and patronesses of learning and art and who managed these estates with their own brains and looked to every detail of the business."

			===Levels of Consciousness===

			Three basic levels of Consciousness in Raja Yoga,

			"First is the conscious plane; that is to say that sort of work which is always accompanied with the feeling of egoism. That part of mind-work which is unaccompanied with feeling of egoism is unconscious work, and that part which is accompanied with the feeling of egoism is conscious work. In the lower animals this unconscious work is called instinct. In higher animals, and in the highest of animals, man, the second part, that which is accompanied with the feeling of egoism, prevails, and is called conscious work. But it does not end here. There is a still higher plane upon which the mind can work. It can go beyond consciousness. Just as unconscious work is beneath consciousness, so there is another work which is above consciousness, and which, also, is not accompanied with the feeling of egoism. The feeling of egoism is only on the middle plane. When the mind is above or below that line there is no feeling of “I,” and yet the mind works. When the mind goes beyond this line of self-consciousness it is called Samadhi, or super-consciousness. It is above consciousness" <ref>Vivekananda, Swami. Raja Yoga. Leeds, England: Press, 2003. p. 62. https://ia801208.us.archive.org/14/items/RajaYogaBySwamiVivekananda/Raja-Yoga-by-Swami-Vivekananda.pdf</ref>

			"How, for instance, do we know that a man in Samadhi has not gone below his consciousness, has not degenerated,
			instead of going higher? In both cases the works are unaccompanied by egoism? The answer is, by the effects,
			by the results of the work, we know that which is below, and that which is above. When a man goes into deep sleep he enters a plane beneath consciousness. He works the body all the time, he breathes, he moves the body, perhaps, in his sleep, without any accompanying feeling of ego; he is unconscious, and when he returns from his sleep he is the same man who went into it. The sum-total of the knowledge which he hap[sic] before he went into the sleep remains the same; it has not increased at all. No enlightenment has come. But if a man goes into Samadhi, if he goes into it a fool, he comes out a sage. What makes the difference? From one state a man comes out the very same man that went in, and out of another state the man becomes enlightened, a sage, a prophet, a saint, his whole character changed, his life changed, illumined. These are the two effects. Now the effects being different, the causes must be different. As this illumination, with which a man comes back from Samadhi, is much higher than can be got from unconsciousness, or much higher than can be got by reasoning in a conscious state, it must therefore be superconsciousness, and Samadhi is called the super-conscious state.
			This,"
			<ref>Vivekananda, Swami. Raja Yoga. Leeds, England: Press, 2003. p. 62-3. https://ia801208.us.archive.org/14/items/RajaYogaBySwamiVivekananda/Raja-Yoga-by-Swami-Vivekananda.pdf</ref>

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	"Each soul is ... divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, BY controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy, by one, or more, or all of these and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details."<ref>Vivekananda, Swami. Yoga Philosophy: Lectures Delivered in New York, Winter of 1895-6. New York: Longmans, Green, and CO, 1896. https://ia600303.us.archive.org/25/items/yogaphilosophyle00viverich/yogaphilosophyle00viverich_bw.pdf. Opening Quote</ref>		"Each soul is ... divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, BY controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy, by one, or more, or all of these and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details."<ref>Vivekananda, Swami. Yoga Philosophy: Lectures Delivered in New York, Winter of 1895-6. New York: Longmans, Green, and CO, 1896. https://ia600303.us.archive.org/25/items/yogaphilosophyle00viverich/yogaphilosophyle00viverich_bw.pdf. Opening Quote</ref>

	'''On Gods in the Vedas''': "I may be pardoned for using the word gods; the literal translation is "the bright ones"		'''On esotericism and mystical experience:''' <blockquote>In Western countries it is thought to be mysticism. People who wanted to practise it were either burned or killed as witches and sorcerers, and in India, for various reasons, it fell into the hands of persons who destroyed 90 per cent, of the knowledge, and of that portion which remained tried to make a great secret. In modern times many so-called teachers have arisen worse than those of India, because the latter knew something while these modern exponents do not. Anything that is secret and mysterious in these systems...should be at once rejected....All mystery-mongering weakens the human brain... it is a striking fact, that the more modern the commentator, the greater the mistakes he makes. The more ancient the writer on it the more rational he is. Most of the modern writers talk of all sorts of mystery. Thus it fell into the hands of a few persons who made it a secret, instead of letting the full blaze of daylight and reason fall upon it, and they did so that they might have the powers to themselves.</blockquote><blockquote>In the first place there is no mystery in what I preach. What little I know I will tell you. So far as I can reason it out I will do so, but what I do not know I will simply tell you that it is what the books say. It is wrong to blindly believe. You must exercise your own reason and judgment you must practise, and see whether these things happen or not. Just as you would take up any other science of a material nature, exactly in the same manner you should take up this science for study. There is neither mystery nor danger in it. So far as it is true it ought to be preached in the public streets, in the broad daylight. Any attempt to mystify these things is productive of great danger.(Vivekananda, 1896, pp. 12–13) </blockquote>'''On Gods in the Vedas''': "I may be pardoned for using the word gods; the literal translation is "the bright ones"

	'''On women''':<ref>Allthe following quotes from Vivekananda, Swami. “The Women of India.” ''Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda''. Vol. 9. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016. <nowiki>https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/SWAMI-VIVEKANANDA-COMPLETE-WORKS-Vol-9.pdf</nowiki></ref>		'''On women''':<ref>Allthe following quotes from Vivekananda, Swami. “The Women of India.” ''Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda''. Vol. 9. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016. <nowiki>https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/SWAMI-VIVEKANANDA-COMPLETE-WORKS-Vol-9.pdf</nowiki></ref>

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 All religions based on experience of God (Crist), certain truths (buddha), etc. <ref>Vivekananda, Swami. ''Yoga Philosophy: Lectures Delivered in New York, Winter of 1895-6''. New York: Longmans, Green, and CO, 1896. p. 2 https://ia600303.us.archive.org/25/items/yogaphilosophyle00viverich/yogaphilosophyle00viverich_bw.pdf &lt;nowiki&gt;</ref>
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 On the nature of human spirituality and religion, Swami says
 "Each soul is ... divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, BY controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy, by one, or more, or all of these and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details."<ref>Vivekananda, Swami. Yoga Philosophy: Lectures Delivered in New York, Winter of 1895-6. New York: Longmans, Green, and CO, 1896. https://ia600303.us.archive.org/25/items/yogaphilosophyle00viverich/yogaphilosophyle00viverich_bw.pdf. Opening Quote</ref>
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	Was 'befriended by some wealthy Americans and by Harvard Professor John Henry Wright who was able to pull strings to that the svami could participate even though he was not the approved representative of any religious body."<ref>Williams, George M. ''The Quest for Meaning of Svami Vivekananda''. Chio, California: New Horizons Press, 1994. p. 59</ref>		Was 'befriended by some wealthy Americans and by Harvard Professor John Henry Wright who was able to pull strings to that the svami could participate even though he was not the approved representative of any religious body."<ref>Williams, George M. ''The Quest for Meaning of Svami Vivekananda''. Chio, California: New Horizons Press, 1994. p. 59</ref>

	Spoke to ~~elite~~ bodies in America. Critisized secrecy of western esoteric traditions.		'''Spoke to the World's Parliament of Religions''', Chicago, 11th Sept 1893. <ref>Vivekananda, Swami. "Response to Welcome." ''Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda''. Vol. 5. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016. <nowiki>https://www.holybooks.com/complete-works-of-swami-vivekananda/</nowiki>.</ref>

			Critic of Christian hypocrisy. "Christians must always be ready for good criticism, and I hardly think that you will mind if I make a little criticism. You Christians, who are so fond of sending out missionaries to save the soul of the heathen — why do you not try to save their bodies from starvation? In India, during the terrible famines, thousands died from hunger, yet you Christians did nothing. You erect churches all through India, but the crying evil in the East is not religion — they have religion enough — but it is bread that the suffering millions of burning India cry out for with parched throats. They ask us for bread, but we give them stones. It is an insult to a starving people to offer them religion; it is an insult to a starving man to teach him metaphysics. In India a priest that preached for money would lose caste and be spat upon by the people. I came here to seek aid for my impoverished people, and I fully realised how difficult it was to get help for heathens from Christians in a Christian land."<ref>Vivekananda, Swami. "Religion not the Crying Need of India." ''Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda''. Vol. 5. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016. https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/SWAMI-VIVEKANANDA-COMPLETE-WORKS-Vol-1.pdf</ref>

			Pointed out the Buddha, like Christ, "The great glory of the Master lay in his wonderful sympathy for everybody, especially for the ignorant and the poor. Some of his disciples were Brahmins. When Buddha was teaching, Sanskrit was no more the spoken language in India. It was then only in the books of the learned. Some of Buddha's Brahmins disciples wanted to translate his teachings into Sanskrit, but he distinctly told them, "I am for the poor, for the people; let me speak in the tongue of the people." And so to this day the great bulk of his teachings are in the vernacular of that day in India.<ref>Vivekananda, Swami. "Religion not the Crying Need of India." ''Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda''. Vol. 5. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016.https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/SWAMI-VIVEKANANDA-COMPLETE-WORKS-Vol-1.pdf.</ref>

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	Was 'befriended by some wealthy Americans and by Harvard Professor John Henry Wright who was able to pull strings to that the svami could participate even though he was not the approved representative of any religious body."<ref>Williams, George M. ''The Quest for Meaning of Svami Vivekananda''. Chio, California: New Horizons Press, 1994. p. 59</ref>		Was 'befriended by some wealthy Americans and by Harvard Professor John Henry Wright who was able to pull strings to that the svami could participate even though he was not the approved representative of any religious body."<ref>Williams, George M. ''The Quest for Meaning of Svami Vivekananda''. Chio, California: New Horizons Press, 1994. p. 59</ref>

			Spoke to elite bodies in America. Critisized secrecy of western esoteric traditions.