Shiva In Ecstasy

From Volume 8 of The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, chapter -II, ‘Writings: Prose And Poems’ Shiva is dancing, lost in the ecstasy of Self, sounding his own cheeks. His tabor is playing and the garland of skulls is swinging in rhythm. The waters of...

To My Own Soul

From Volume 8 of The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, chapter -II, ‘Writings: Prose And Poems’ Composed at Ridgely Manor, New York, in 1899. Hold yet a while, Strong Heart, Not part a lifelong yoke Though blighted looks the present, future gloom. And...