Ever wanted to hear Swami Vivekananda?
If you are Indian, then Lt. Swami Vivekananda needs no introduction. You would have also heard about his famous speech in Chicago in 1893, where he addressed the attendees as ‘Sisters and Brothers’. Did you ever wanted to listen to the actual speech? Find it right here.
Swami Vivekananda’s Speech - Part 1 Size - 7.16mb
Swami Vivekananda’s Speech - Part 2 Size - 4.78mb
There is bit of noise in starting of speech but overall the quality is good.
JD
March 5th, 2005 at 11:05 pm
Hey
WOW… will listen to it ASAP! Thanks for the wonderful link and the comments
March 7th, 2005 at 5:15 pm
Cool stuff!!
March 9th, 2005 at 9:07 pm
This is great stuff. Any day now, we will be launching http://www.ourmedia.org. This website will allow publishing such content right onto the Internet Archive (archive.org). Stay tuned!
March 11th, 2005 at 9:56 pm
its great speech . Thanks.
March 14th, 2005 at 6:52 pm
Rockin’! Thanks for these links. Look for a mention at Tiffinbox (http://www.tiffinbox.org/)
March 21st, 2005 at 4:49 am
Gee, thx a lot ! This post has now been “duplicated” (with courtesy to you) at http://sudhir-lp.blogspot.com.
Cheers,
Sudhir.P
March 24th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
Hello,
I am not able to download files, it fails after 250 KB of downloads.
Please can you mail me on this my mail address?
March 31st, 2005 at 4:15 pm
very inspiring. very very nice. thank you.
April 6th, 2005 at 9:38 pm
Too Good.
As a kid I used to fr speech competitions reciting Swami’s speeches..
Now I know, how it was supposed to be done
-Manu
April 6th, 2005 at 9:40 pm
also have duplicated this entry on my blog
themanu.blogger.com (with a ref. to you, of course
-Manu
April 6th, 2005 at 10:46 pm
Hey Manu,
Thanks for linking up!
JD
April 10th, 2005 at 12:48 pm
This is great. I was amazed to hear the actual voice of Swami Vivekanda. This must be made available to everyone and help motivate people.
Thanks again..
April 11th, 2005 at 11:50 pm
Thank you for making them available to everyone.
Vasanta
April 18th, 2005 at 1:41 am
Could someone confirm the source?
April 25th, 2005 at 7:44 am
This is from wikipedia, where somebody had put the voice of Swami Vivekananda
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It is good that you removed the link! I recount one funny experience of a monk of the Ramakrishna Order regarding the ‘Voice of Vivekananda’. He was presented with a CD supposed to contain the ‘original’ voice. The moment he heard it attentively he remembered that he had heard it before. It struck him that there was one cassette of N Vishwanathan who had read out some selected lectures of Swamiji. This was brought out during the Centenary commemoration of Chicago Parliament of Religions in 1993. He played the CD and the cassette simultaneously and lo! both had omission of one para from the lecture of 27th Sept, 1893. Not only that - in narrating the story of Frog in the well, Vishwanathan had expounded in a little dramatic way by modulating his voice, Swamiji’s lecture also had the same style! Wherever Vishwanathan had pronouced the word ‘often’ as ‘often, Swamiji in the CD also had the same pronounciation! More over before Swamiji’s lecture begins, there is an announcement in female voice. The written down records of Parliament of Religions show that there was no female announcer at that time! It appeared to our monk that the new CD has been produced by increasing the speed of the lecture and adding ‘noise’ level so as to appear as ancient one. Vishwanathan’s cassette is still available for sale from Udbodhan Office, Kolkata.Swami Vimokshananda 18:11, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
May 8th, 2005 at 3:09 am
Hi,
I can’t believe my ears! Iam a Bengali and a great devout of Swami Vivekananda, Its treassure for me! Valuable than anything else !
Great Work !
Keep it Up friend!
Rahul Biswas,
May 12th, 2005 at 9:56 pm
This is really a wonderful gift i can say,thanks alot for making it available to all of us,Swami Vivekananda is really Aswsome there is a Magic in his Voice.
Thanks alot.
Chakri.
May 13th, 2005 at 1:38 am
hey nice i must say THANKS to u…..
May 23rd, 2005 at 10:06 am
I am not able to hear anything. Could someone please help,
Thanks,Lakshmi
June 9th, 2005 at 3:39 pm
Hi,
Bfore i begin .. I would like to remind u all of a gr8 quote by swami , it goes like this; Dont believe in a thing bcoz u have read abt it in a book, Dont believe in a thing bcoz another person has said it was true, Dont believe in words bcoz
they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for urself… reason it out…that is realization..
So, If these are real audios of swami..IAM GRATEFUL TO YOU (THNX, THNX,THNXTHNX,THNX,THNX,THNX,
THNX,THNX,THNX,THNX,THNX,THNX,THNX,THNX,)
..If they arent….U will lose
June 10th, 2005 at 2:13 pm
I love Swami Vivekananda and thank a million to you.
June 10th, 2005 at 10:00 pm
Hi,
Thank you very much for this.
This is something every hindu and everybody
else should listen, I think.
June 14th, 2005 at 12:20 am
Thanks a lot. Its really one of the rarest original speech one could ever find.
Thanks again.
June 14th, 2005 at 12:21 am
Thanks a lot. Its really one of the rarest original speech one could ever find.
Thanks again.
June 14th, 2005 at 12:30 am
Among many thousand followers of Swamiji, I am one. I ‘ve read about Swamiji, i believe the voice quality could be improved more towards clarity. The content of Swamiji’s speech is understandable. New and improved softwares are in market to clear the unnecessary noise from the unforgettable speech.
Thanks for effort.
June 17th, 2005 at 7:14 pm
An extremely rare masterpiece. Ought to be listened to by every Indian.
June 17th, 2005 at 11:15 pm
That was fantastic stuff!!!!
June 30th, 2005 at 6:45 am
wonderful collection. are there anymore speeches available?
July 5th, 2005 at 10:18 pm
Thanks.
July 8th, 2005 at 10:30 pm
Thank you for making them available to everyone.Must be listened by every Indain
July 22nd, 2005 at 4:36 am
This is simply amazing. I am just excited to listen the great jnani’s speech. He is one of the greatest men Indian and the entire world has ever witnessed. He is along side with the other greats like Bharathiyar and of course not tO forget the Jivan Mukta
CHANDRA SEKARA BHARATHI of SRINGERI.
July 22nd, 2005 at 4:38 am
This is simply amazing. I am just excited to listen the great jnani
July 22nd, 2005 at 4:39 am
This is simply amazing. I am just excited to listen the great jnani
August 9th, 2005 at 1:13 am
Thank you very much. such an inspirational speech. thanks a lot again to you for hosting this.
August 11th, 2005 at 9:56 am
You got what I’ve been searchine for from somany years .. Thanks a lot.. Dear ..
Regards,
Ramadas Kaipa.
August 14th, 2005 at 5:48 am
it is a GREAT VOICE that i ever heard !!!
i’m proud to take birth in his land !!!
Thank u very much for giving most of us a chance to hear his precious voice !!!
regards
Pradeep
August 14th, 2005 at 5:54 am
i always call him “THE MESSENGER OF KNOWLEDGE”
My special thanks to u for creating such a beautiful website !!!!
regards
pradeep
August 14th, 2005 at 10:07 am
Oh my goodness . . . I cannot believe I am presently hearing the very voice of the great Vivekananda. Wow. I am pleased and honored. Thank you for allowing this wonderful opportunity.
Javier Calderon
August 21st, 2005 at 9:46 am
Namasthae….
Thank you very much for this. This is a great asset indeed. All Indian should hear this. I am still exited. I am not geting the words to express my feelings.
Once again Thanks a lot for creating such a chance to hear the great movement where the Indians rise to the top of the world through Swami Vivekanda and Our culture.
I am very proud to say that “I am an Indian.”
Regards,
Vinod
August 21st, 2005 at 8:31 pm
This is not Swamiji’s voice nor his speech. The speech Swamiji delivered on 11th sep 1893 was only 4.5 minuts long. I love Swami Vivekananda and I have no doubt every true Indian love him including the one who posted this speech here. But I expect some scrutiny to be done before mislieading everyone.
August 23rd, 2005 at 6:40 pm
I did some further research this morning, and it appears that the speech is not in Swami Vivekananda’s voice. For example, the following paragraph from the text of the “Paper on Hinduism” was missing from the spoken speech:
“I remember, as a boy, hearing a Christian missionary preach to
crowd in India. Among other sweet things he was telling them was,
that if he gave a blow to their idol with his stick. what could it
do? One of his hearers sharply answered, ‘If I abuse your God, what
can He do?’ ‘You would be punished,’ said the preacher, ‘when you
die.’ ‘So my idol will punish you when you die,’ retorted the
Hindu.”
So I did some further research about the history of sound recording at:
http://www.recording-history.org/HTML/musictech1.htm
Then I found a Wikipedia article that confirmed my suspicions. You can read it at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ramashray
Nevertheless, the ideas conveyed in the text and in the speech (whoever the speaker really is) are worthy of respect and consideration.
Avinash Chitnis
August 29th, 2005 at 5:41 am
My goodnes ….
I do not find words to express my gratitude. I was mad to listen to the
original voice of The Great Swami Vivekananda for years. I knew that the
only recording was available in the treasury to Khtadi’s Maharaja.
I feel very excited and blessed listening to this speeches in real voice.
Though, I want to know if this is the real voice. I have read somewhere
about someone called N Vishwanathan. Is this his voice ??
Anyway the great stuff !!!!!
August 29th, 2005 at 7:03 am
Need to investigate if this is the original voice.
August 30th, 2005 at 3:32 pm
Thank you very much for the link, i really enjoyed it.
August 31st, 2005 at 3:11 am
I have read somewhere that the original recording of Swami Vivekananda
was there in the treasury ot Khetadi’s Maharaja. Also, this recording is
not much clear. This recording took place before the event of the Parliament in Chicago; Swami Vivekananda was not famous that time.
I kindly urge, if someone can, to find this out. I herewith call for some
volunteers to come forward and take some initiative. I will be actively participating in this in all the possible ways. I am reachable at :
hitulparikh@yahoo.com
Looking forward some genuine response…….
Hitul Parikh
September 1st, 2005 at 5:22 pm
It is possible that these are original audio recordings of Swami Vivekananda’s speeches. Why not? We should have a rationale view on the spread and adoption of a technology. Edison had patented the phonogram in England in 1878 soon followed by one in USA. There were two more persons who had been working on the technology simultaneous to him - one of them was a German emigre to USA; and the other person had patented phonogram around the same in Canada. These breakthroughs in sound technology were preceded by things like phonoautograph right since 1857. If one draws a parallel with today’s wide and wild spread of Personal computers (and other nascent variants of computer) within a couple of decades with the phonogram technology around the later part of 19th century, it was very much possible that it had become a familiar means for atleast for a section of the then western society - especially North America, Europe etc. Perhaps technology advances through gradual improvisations and comes to the public consciousness only after crossing a critical qualitative (and perhaps quantiative too) level. This subject should be studied by Historians of Science and Technology rather than passing off ignorance as authentic opinion.
September 6th, 2005 at 12:38 am
Afraid, I have to agree with both Hitul Parikh and Avinas on this. Even I was quite fooled by it when I received a CD from a friend who claimed it contained the original recording of Swamiji’s speech. Apparently it is N. Vishwanathan’s voice very carefully modulated with external hiss to appear old. A recording made that early would have a lot of nasal sounds as these frequencies were predominant in recordings of that era. The voice here is deeper - very close to Vishwanathan’s and above all the speech itself is incomplete. Well, it is all a matter of belief - the speech is Swamiji’s - unfortunately, it is not in his voice.
September 7th, 2005 at 12:05 pm
Hi
I am not happy,
Because Unable to download voice of swami vivekanda,
we have no right to download voice files
If u mail it to me then I will heartly thankful to you.
Kamal Mistry.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:14 am
This is a fake! Please do no deceive people or to get more hits on your site!
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:02 am
I think it doesnt matter as long as the content belonged to Swamy Vivekananda.
And I feel, if Viswanathan had done it to cheat the people, still unknowingly he did a great job by providing the content to many people.
regards,
Raja Mohan
June 6th, 2007 at 7:19 am
thanks ;
June 17th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
is it true voice of swamiji…. plz confirm me.. if its true then i thank u so much………………!
July 8th, 2007 at 6:40 am
i’m thrilled to hear Swami’s voice. The speech is really fabulous,just drawing my attention throughout…..One of the greatest souls India produced.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
I am an ardent admirer of Swami Vivekanada. I have read his speeches with deepest zeal.
When I listened to the first word of the audio recording, it was so obvious to me that it was not his voice at all. Any fool would have guessed that! Why? It’s so obvious. When Swamiji made a speech he was mere 31 years old. Very young. The voice in audio sounds much older than 31.
Also, I know fact Vivekanada voice was not deep like the one in audio. His voice sounded like music; so beautiful! –That’s what the people who have actually heard him say that. Plus the Chicago address was spontaneous. The audio recording doesn’t show that.
Anyway nice try. It’s better to try to focus on and mimic Swami Vivekanad’s addresses than to emulate dogs’ barkings!
Thank you
Anil
July 17th, 2007 at 2:36 am
People please. I have studied this recording in detailand IT IS NOT THE ORIGIAL VOICE OF VIVEKANADA. There are no known recordings of ANY SPEAKERS speech at the world Parliament of Religions. The phonograph was invented 6 years before the speech, however, it would be impossible to have a recording which such clarity.
Also, according to my reasearch a female mc did not introduce the swami. THIS IS A HOAX. People, please be realistic
July 17th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
u will feel proud to be in this rendezvous after visting this site n may all be happy with name of young n dynamic swami vivekanada .
lovingly sri..
July 24th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Its my fortune to hear Swami Vivekananda’s divine voice. Thanks for providing us this wonderful link…
August 1st, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Thnx for These
August 2nd, 2007 at 2:35 pm
I’m inspired to listen this speech.
August 4th, 2007 at 7:13 am
badia hai
August 4th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Well, why most of are bothered of if the voice is real or not. c’mon, well did u hear the speech, well grow up and learn from the speech “Rose named anything would smell equally sweet”. even if it is not his real voice this is the greatest thing I have ever heard related to religous Philosophy.
Though if it is recited by anyother person isnt it with force. Is Theory of relativity effectless without Einstein?
and yes, Freshers in Forensic and Audio engineering go get a job.
August 7th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
To understand Indian deep rooted problem of society Swami Vibekananda.Rabindranath Tagore and Babashaheb Ambedkar need to be read.
Thanks for highlighting Swami Vibekananda who told,”Don’t forget low caste,illiterate.poor etc.are your blood and your brother.”
August 9th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Speechless!Really fortunate to hear the devine voice of the Swamiji.
August 12th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Thank you so much, you made my family happy, I have been looking for this speech for long time. Thank you again.
August 18th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
First-of-all i need to say thanks to the persons who kept his speech in the net.no doubt at all the voice of Vivekananda is really fill our nerves with patriot feeling and it is really inspiring .
August 19th, 2007 at 11:37 am
It is useless to search whether the voice is of other than Swami Vivekananda.But each word of voice touches the heart what he told,”Why do’nt kick the photo?Photo can’t be the real king.”
August 28th, 2007 at 7:47 am
great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..great…superb…..
August 28th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Please tell me whether it is the real tone of my respected swamiji.
September 4th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
he is a person who preaches what he has practised. there are no words to describe about him. it is applicable to all ages to come in the future. let all stand under the light of his bliss.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Hi, I’m the lucky person. It was my dream to hear the voice of Swami vivekanand. Thanks a lot.
September 13th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Guys!! This is the voice of N. Vishwanathan. But don’t get disheartened - there’s a news recently which says that His voice was recorded by the Maharaja of Mysore and the record has been recently discovered from one of the storerooms in the palace. Efforts are underway to make the recording available to the public.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
I have a voice of VIvekananda in 2 files having size
45 MB [31 minute 19 seconds] and 28 Mb but here the size shows very small.
Its posted in YOUTUBE
September 18th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Can some one give me the text of the speech
This is an amazing recording!!!! Can some one confirm the source to make it greatly credible!!!
September 18th, 2007 at 11:51 am
I AM NOT ABLE TO HEAR ANY THING PLEASE HELP & MAIL IT
October 11th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Hi, Iam the lucky person.First-of-all i need to say thanks to the persons who kept his speech in the net.I’m inspired to listen this speech. Thank you so much.
Uma
October 19th, 2007 at 11:36 am
It is unbelievable. I loved it. I have no words to express. After hearing my this desire since my childhood is fulfilled. geart indeed, great
October 19th, 2007 at 11:40 am
indeed. I have benn under tremendous pressure, I feel much lighter, I am really thankful to the person / group who has protected the speech of swamijee. May God bless him. thanks a lot.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Yaar ye to bahut achhaa hai lekin ye voice me kuchha na kuchha golmal jarur hai, lekin mai khusi hu, chalo yaar aakhir koi bhi kaise bhi ham sab ko ye aabaj sunane ka effort to use kiya usko mai thanks bolta hu. Mai really happy hu and feeling lucky too.
October 25th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Hi, really I can’t believe my ears. Is this is true. coz, in one book, I read there is no original voice of swami vivekananda. anyway, whoever uploaded it, thanks a lot
November 5th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Thanks a lot to providing the great collection…
Really this is a great job…
November 19th, 2007 at 6:23 am
Thanks a lot for the Audio clips! I m indeed very grateful to all those who really put these audio clips into the net… Thanks a lot
November 22nd, 2007 at 3:44 am
it was some thing real and great.. i wanna listen his voice any one come a a cross please contact me
December 18th, 2007 at 4:33 am
Thanks alot
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:04 am
Hi
I am very happy to leasen the speech. i am really very lucky to being an indian.
Thankyou sumanth garu for sending this link.
December 27th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
jUST AMAZING
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
It is amaging to hear the voice of Swamijee, he is the inspiration for all Indians. His voice is such like a fire, he is amaging personality. Thanks for providing this audio. Thanks a lot…
January 9th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Content is more important than voice.
Thanks for posting this in your site….
It’s awesome!!!!!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:56 am
I don’t know This Truth 0R … But If it it is true than its Good
January 16th, 2008 at 8:03 am
I don’t believe my ears!!That’s strange…Strange..!!!
February 1st, 2008 at 2:36 pm
thank you so much
i like so much to swamijee. in future is there another vivekanand born ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
l love Swami Vivekanand. i hear voice of Swami Vivekanand and i feeling like a spirit of god.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 pm
When i listen voice of Swami Vivekanand i shot. i am luck to
being Indian and l feel very good
February 4th, 2008 at 8:39 am
I am surprised to hear the voice. But genuineness of this audio must be verified from Bellur Math Howroh. Then everyone should proud on this voice.
February 8th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Super!!!!!!!!!
What a wonderful speech..
While listening this I went to actual in 1963.
Thanks for sharing this site.
February 9th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Outstanding effort for presenting the words of greatest person of India.I went through all of the comments section and its really nice to see this kind of adoreness of YOUNG GUNS towards vivekananda and his thoughts.I congratulate N vishwanath for his exceptional voice and the intensity which he has implemented in the Vivekananda’s thoughts.I am pretty sure this audio will help any person to rethink about the country and forces him to put it into the action rather than being fanatic and sitting quite.
I salute my Guru (Vivekananda)
sachin.
March 7th, 2008 at 7:34 am
By seeing comments from thousands of people, I feel Swami Vivekananda always with us and he is guiding US.
I salute on his feet.
March 7th, 2008 at 7:35 am
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March 8th, 2008 at 1:43 am
you’ve done a wonderful job for vivekananda lovers…..
March 19th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Really great and good. Thanks for making it available.It’s my dream to hear Vivekananda’s voice.
Don’t miss it……
April 1st, 2008 at 8:46 am
I am 100% convinced that this is fake.The voice of Swami cannot becompared to this ordinary one.The voice belongs to an older fellow.Stop fooling people.
April 6th, 2008 at 7:34 am
swami vivekanada - what the peoples / young peoples think abot this person ?, what he was ?what he is ? what he will? , vivekanada was a ideal of youngs , vivekanada is ideal and he will ideal specially for indian but not only for indians. vivekanada was a world of knowledge who create a new divine world of spiritual knowledge . don’t think that he was hindu bcoz he was a great soul and soul has no religion. he was a divine spirit who gave a new direction two the youngs . according to swami vivekananda death is change of centre from one body to another body so people can’t die .