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Christopher Isherwood Papers
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8pk0gr7 No online items Christopher Isherwood Papers Finding aid prepared by Sara S. Hodson with April Cunningham, Alison Dinicola, Gayle M. Richardson, Natalie Russell, Rebecca Tuttle, and Diann Benti. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department The Huntington Library 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org © October 2, 2000. Updated: January 12, 2007, April 14, 2010 and March 10, 2017 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. Christopher Isherwood Papers CI 1-4758; FAC 1346-1397 1 Overview of the Collection Title: Christopher Isherwood Papers Dates (inclusive): 1864-2004 Bulk dates: 1925-1986 Collection Number: CI 1-4758; FAC 1346-1397 Creator: Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986. Extent: 6,261 pieces, plus ephemera. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Abstract: This collection contains the papers of British-American writer Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), chiefly dating from the 1920s to the 1980s. Consisting of scripts, literary manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, photographs, ephemera, audiovisual material, and Isherwood’s library, the archive is an exceptionally rich resource for research on Isherwood, as well as W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender and others. Subjects documented in the collection include homosexuality and gay rights, pacifism, and Vedanta. Language: English. Access The collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department, with two exceptions: • The series of Isherwood’s daily diaries, which are closed until January 1, 2030. -
VI. Literary Works (1950-1976)
Ramakrishna-Vedanta in Southern California: From Swami Vivekananda to the Present VI. Literary Works (1950-1976) 1. Swami Prabhavananda 2. Ida Ansell (Ujjvala) 3. Gerald Heard 4. Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts and D. T. Suzuki 5. Christopher Isherwood 6. Swami Vidyatmananda (John Yale, Prema Chaitanya) 7. Public Speakers and Film Personalities 1. Swami Prabhavananda wami Prabhavananda contributed greatly to bringing the essential message of Vedanta to the West. The sixteen books he S wrote can be grouped into five categories. A more detailed discussion of his pre-1950 works appears earlier in this book. (1) Translations of religious scripture (4): Srimad Bhagavatam: The Wisdom of God (1943); Bhagavad-Gita with C. Isherwood (1944); Crest-Jewel of Discrimination with C. Isherwood (1947); and The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal with F. Manchester (1948). (2) Commentaries on religious scripture (3): How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali with C. Isherwood (1953); The Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta (1963); and Narada’s Way of Divine Love: The Bhakti Sutras of Narada (1971). Prior to publication of these books, the Swami gave a series of highly praised in-depth lectures on the Sermon on the Mount and Narada’s Bhakti Sutras, as well as on the Bhagavad Gita, all of which can be purchased from Vedanta Press and Catalog. Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood provided an invaluable service by making Eastern scripture intelligible to the Western reader. The ambiguity of many translations and commentaries had proved to be a great obstacle in spreading Vedantic ideas to readers in the West. -
Swami Vidyatmananda
Swami Vidyatmananda: An Inventory of His Collection in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Vidyatmananda, Swami, 1913-2000 Title: Swami Vidyatmananda Collection Dates: 1923-1986 Extent: 1 box (.42 linear feet) Abstract: The Swami Vidyatmananda Collection comprises correspondence to Vidyatmananda as well as correspondence he gathered through his association with the Vedanta Society of Southern California and the Centre Védantique Ramakrishna in Gretz, France. Three distinct groups of correspondence are present: letters between Christopher Isherwood and Swami Vidyatmananda (John Yale), 1950-1986; correspondence to Lady Sandwich (formerly Amiya Corbin) from Aldous Huxley, John Van Druten, Christopher Isherwood, Walter De la Mare, E. M. Forster, and Gerald Heard, 1944-1977; and letters to the French diplomat Martha Vanek from Jan Masaryk, René Fülöp-Miller, and Igor Stravinsky, 1923-1930. RLIN Record TXRC03-A21 ID: Language: English Access: Open for research Administrative Information Provenance This collection was gathered and donated in two parts by Swami Vidyatmananda. Vidyatmananda personally collected the Isherwood correspondence over the years 1950-1986. There is a note given by Vidyatmananda at the start of the Lady Sandwich correspondence explaining how he came to be in possession of the remaining materials. Lady Sandwich was affiliated with the Hollywood Vedanta Center contemporaneously with Vidyatmananda, enabling him to assemble her correspondence. Martha Vanek had been a member of the Centre Védantique Ramakrishna in Gretz, which Vidyatmananda Vidyatmananda, Swami, 1913-2000 came to be the manager of many years later. Acquisition: Gifts, 1998-1999 (G11087, G11499) Processed by: Gautam Ganeshan, 2003 Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 2 Vidyatmananda, Swami, 1913-2000 Biographical Sketch Swami Vidyatmananda, born John Yale in 1913, underwent initiation and training under Swami Prabhavananda at the Vedanta Society of Southern California. -
Catalog Nov 2017 Edition
VEDANTA SOCIETY OF WESTERN WASHINGTON BOOKSHOP CATALOG _____________________ Vedanta Society Bookshop 2716 Broadway Ave E. Seattle WA 98102-3909 USA Ph: (206) 323-1228 Fax: (206) 329-1791 Email: [email protected] Prices are subject to change without notice. Orders within Washington state must include 10.1% sales tax. We accept payment by: Cash, Check, VISA, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express. BOOKSHOP SPECIAL Your order of two or more books among the qualified titles below, authored or translated by Swami Bhaskarananda, are shipped FREE within the continental United States. No other discounts apply. Your order is delivered via surface mail. Extra shipping charges may apply to the remainder of your order. The qualifying titles are: 1. Essentials of Hinduism – A Comprehensive Overview of the World’s Oldest Religion Cat# VED-0692 2. Meditation, Mind & Patanjali’s Yoga Cat# MED-0759 3. Meditacion Yoga y Control de la Mente (Spanish translation of Meditation, Mind & Patanjali’s Yoga) Cat# MED-1328 4. Life in Indian Monasteries: Reminiscences About Monks of the Ramakrishna Order Cat# BGR-0758 5. Journey from Many to One: Essentials of Advaita Vedanta Cat# PHY-1009 6. Reminiscences of Swami Brahmananda Cat# DIR-1088 7. The Philosophical Verses of Yogavasishtha Cat# PHY-1220 8. The Wonder That is Sri Ramakrishna Cat# RKM-1243 9. How to Get Along with Others: Using Common Sense and Ancient Hindu Wisdom Cat# SLF-1329 10. One-Eyed Vision Cat# SUB-0588 TABLE OF CONTENTS Sri Ramakrishna 2 Meditation 24 Swami Vivekananda 5 Yoga 25 -
Magazine Articles July / August 2008
Magazine Articles July / August 2008 1 . Divine Wisdom 2. Adroha or Absence of Malice - Swami Dayatmananda 3. Gerald Heard and Vedanta - John Roger Barrie 4. Colloquies on Spiritual Topics - Swami Prabhavananda 5. Thayumanava - Swami Ritajananda 6. Conversations with Swami Turiyananda (contd) - Swami Raghavananda 7. Discourse on a Profound Verse of the Gita - Swami Siddheswarananda 8. Pathways of Realization (contd.) - Clement James Knott 9. Leaves of an Ashrama 26 : Dispassion as Dis-Passion - Swami Vidyatmananda 10. Book Review Divine Wisdom Question : "Sir, must we renounce the world" Sri Ramakrishna: "No. Why should you? A man can realize God even in the world. But at the beginning he must spend a few days in solitude. He must practise spiritual discipline in a solitary place. He should take a room near his house, so that he may come home only for his meals. Keshab, Pratap, and others said to me, 'Sir, we follow the ideal of King Janaka.' 'Mere words don't make a King, Janaka', I replied. 'How many austerities King Janaka first had to perform in solitude - standing on his head, and so on! Do something first; then you may become a King Janaka.' You see a man writing English fluently; but could he do that at the very, start? Perhaps he was the son of poor parents; he was cook in a family, and earned his meals by his service. Perhaps he had to struggle hard to go on with his studies. It is after all these efforts that he can now write such fluent English. "I said to Keshab Sen further, 'How can the worldly man be cured of his serious disease unless he goes into solitude?' A worldly man is suffering from delirious fever, as it were. -
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD & VEDANTA By
American Vedantist Issue #69 American Vedantist is a not-for-profit online journal dedicated to developing Vedanta in the West and to facilitating companionship among Vedantists. (To find out more about American Vedantist, visit our website) CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD & VEDANTA by Anna & Jon Monday We open with a prayer: Oh, source of my inspiration, teach me to extend toward all living beings that fascinated, unsentimental, loving and all-pardoning interest which I feel for the characters I create. May I become identified with all humanity, as I identify myself with these imaginary persons. May my art become my life, and my life my art. Deliver me from snootiness, and from the Pulitzer Prize. Teach me to practice true anonymity. Help me to forgive my agents and publishers. Make me attentive to my critics and patient with my fans. For yours is the conception and execution. Amen. The Prayer for Writers Christopher Isherwood July 14, 1940 Christopher Isherwood is a multifaceted character, each facet with its own fan base. While most popularly known as a celebrated writer, the creator of the source materials for some blockbuster musicals and films, and a vanguard of gay rights activism, he was also a Leftist, a pacifist and conscientious objector; a self-professed “connoisseur of people” who, as host, mixed disparate people with the skill of a master chemist; a professional screenwriter; an international travel writer; an attendee of world class celebrity parties; a Mexican food fan, a Hans Christian Andersen fan; Graham Greene’s cousin; a beach enthusiast whose “lifelong urge” was to “plunge into” the breakers; and a college drop-out who became a distinguished lecturer and teacher of literature and writing and generously mentored aspiring writers. -
The Making of a Devotee
THE MAKING OF A DEVOTEE Swami Vidyatmananda (John Yale) Ramakrishna Order of India "As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea, so O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee." --Hymn on the Greatness of Shiva CONTENTS ● Introduction ● Chapter One: The Devotee as Historical Incident ● Two: The Devotee as Inquirer after Truth ● Three: The Devotee as Psycho-Physical Being ● Four: The Devotee as Disciple ● Five: The Devotee as Literary Enthusiast ● Six: The Devotee as Friend of Vivekananda ● Seven: The Devotee as Admirer of Sri Ramakrishna ● Eight: The Devotee as Sadhu ● Nine: The Devotee as Passenger to India and More ● Ten: The Devotee as "Manager Maharaj" ● Eleven: The Devotee as Aide to a Holy Man ● Twelve: The Devotee as Witness to Evidences of the Faith ● Epilogue Introduction I have lived during a period when began, and participated in, the early stages of a noteworthy religious development. I had thought of titling this book The Story of a Third-Generation Disciple. That is my situation. Sri Ramakrishna lived from 1836 to 1886. Millions of people now consider him an avatar--an incarnation of God of the same order as Jesus or Sri Krishna or Gotama Buddha--a savior for his age. The influence of Sri Ramakrishna expressed itself through his several disciples. The most famous of these was Swami Vivekananda. Another was Swami Brahmananda. My guru, Swami Prabhavananda, was a disciple of Swami Brahmananda; I may thus consider myself to be a spiritual great-grandson of Sri Ramakrishna. -
V. the Swami Prabhavananda Era: the Period of Fruition (1950-1976) 1
Ramakrishna-Vedanta in Southern California: From Swami Vivekananda to the Present V. The Swami Prabhavananda Era: The Period of Fruition (1950-1976) 1. Vedanta Society Activities in the 1950s 2. Vedanta Society Activities in the 1960s 3. Vedanta Society Activities 1970-1976 4. Santa Barbara Convent 5. Trabuco Monastery Swami Prabhavananda 1. Vedanta Society Activities in the 1950s uring this decade the membership increased in size from 209 in 1950, to 313 in 1955, and to 336 in 1960. Swami D Prabhavananda traveled to India in October 1949, accompanied by three future Pravrajikas (Sarada, Varada, and Prabha) and the future Swami Krishnananda. They returned to Los Angeles on May 24, 1950. Saradaprana described their trip to Jayrambati in a modern bullock cart: The first thing we visited was Mother in the beautiful Temple they had built for her. About that time they were going to offer the food so we had to leave. The Swamis had arranged for us to pass the night in Mother’s own home. Just a few steps from the site of the Temple where Mother was born, is the home where she lived so many years. They took us there, and there was the room she had slept in and worshiped the Master in, and the veranda of the room she had sat cutting vegetables to cook for her children. Across the room were two other rooms, one occupied by older women who had lived with the Mother. She pointed to the different places and tried to make us understand that Mother had sat there; had done this here, etc. -
III. the Swami Prabhavananda Era: the Formative Years (1930-1949)*
Ramakrishna-Vedanta in Southern California: From Swami Vivekananda to the Present III. The Swami Prabhavananda Era: The Formative Years (1930-1949)* Swami Prabhavananda 1. Vedanta Society Activities in the 1930’s 2. Vedanta Society Activities in the 1940s 3. Santa Barbara Convent 4. Trabuco College and Monastery 5. Swami Paramananda After 1930 1. Vedanta Society Activities in the 1930’s he second quarter of the twentieth century marked a dynamic period of impressive expansion, not only for Vedanta in T Southern California, but in many other regions of the country. A great deal of credit must be given to Swami Shivananda, the President, and to Swami Saradananda, the Secretary, of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission. The latter had * Assistance provided by Chapter Editor Swami Yogeshananda Chapter III - The Swami Prabhavananda Era: The Formative Years (1930-1949) 7/8/2018 Page 1 Ramakrishna-Vedanta in Southern California: From Swami Vivekananda to the Present previously taught in the U.S. during the years 1896-1898. Sometime in the mid-1920s Swami Prakashananda had asked Belur Math to send fifty able-bodied sannyasins to the U.S. if they could be spared. His idea was to have Vedanta swamis in every state in the country.1 The Math was not able to do this, but it did provide a strong base of support for the American movement. The first wave to come was the five disciples of Sri Ramakrishna between 1893 and 1903. They were followed by a second wave of five swamis who came between 1903 and 1906. The third wave began in 1923 when the Math sent ten high-powered and well-trained swamis.