Lecture notes taken by Josephine Robinson, 1906-1910.

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Lecture notes taken by Josephine Robinson, 1906-1910.

The lectures were based on Swami Vivekananda's teachings, including the sacred books of the world's four great religions and on the classic literary works of the time. The central point was the discovery and salvation of the individual human and his soul.

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Robinson, Josephine, 1868-1951

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Robinson was born in Chicago. She attended Indianapolis High School and Vassar College, and studied music in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and New York. A well-known vocal soloist, she was musically active in Indianapolis. Robinson was the biographer of her grandfather, Indianapolis pioneer Daniel Yandes. From about 1925, she lived with her sisters, Anna Belle and Mary Yandes Robinson, at 1801 N. Pennsylvania Street in Indianapolis, in a house previously occupied by Henry L. Beveridge. F...

Branconière, Benedicion Santa Ana de.

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A student of Swami Vivekananda, Miss de Branconière taught his philosophy first in Paris and later in California, both at the University of California at Berkeley and in private evening lectures in Alameda. Josephine Robinson recorded the evening lectures in shorthand and then typed them. The lectures are organized by chronology, but are also retyped and condensed into an alphabetically subject-arranged "Digest, " which is indexed. From the description of Lecture notes taken by Jose...

Vivekānanda, swāmī, 1863-1902

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