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Вивекананда порадовал тем, что еще в конце 19-го века сделал широкодоступными для Запада идеи Веданты о духовном единстве мироздания. Примечательно также, что до развала Союза существовала цензура, и у обычного человека в то время практически не было шансов получить доступ к информации такого рода. Хотя, благодаря дружественным отношениям с Индией, в СССР и информация о йоге начала появляться, и даже был снят документальный фильм «Индийские йоги, кто они?».

Вот наиболее понравившиеся мне мысли из Jnana-Yoga:

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1- CHAPTER I THE NECESSITY OF RELIGION
I (ego) and We

2- CHAPTER II THE REAL NATURE OF MAN
"This Atman is first to be heard, then thoughts about and then
meditated upon."

3- CHAPTER III MAYA AND ILLUSION
The knowledge of happiness brings the knowledge of unhappiness.

6- CHAPTER VI THE ABSOLUTE AND MANIFESTATION
And it is possible to have the intellect of a Shankara with the
heart of a Buddha.

7- CHAPTER VII GOD IN EVERYTHING
The combination of heart and head is what we want.

But see God in your children. So, in everything.

As for me, I am glad I have done something good and many things bad;
glad I have done something right, and glad I have committed many
errors, because every one of them has been a great lesson.

So this whole universe is a picture.

Fill the mind with the highest thoughts, hear them day after day, think them month
after month.

This is another great theme of the Vedanta,
this Oneness of life, this Oneness of everything.

8- CHAPTER VIII REALISATION

In our last [i.e. a previous] lecture we saw how the inquiry which
started with the origin of the world, and the creation of the universe,
failed to obtain a satisfactory answer from without, and how it
then turned inwards.

'This world exists, the other does not,' thinking thus man comes again
and again under power od Yama (Death).

It is our necessities which make our heaven, and the heaven changes
with the change of our necessities.

If we are developed from animals, the animals also may be degraded men.
How do you know it is not so? You have seen that the proof of evolution
is simply this: you find a series of bodies from the lowest to the
highest rising in a gradually ascending scale. But from that how can
you insist that it is always from the lower upwards, and never from
the higher downwards? The argument applies both ways, and if
anything is true, I believe it is that the series is repeating
itself in going up and down. How can you have evolution without
involution?

9- CHAPTER IX UNITY IN DIVERSITY
"The Self-existent One projected the senses outwards and,
therefore, a man looks outward, not within himself.
A certain wise one, desiring immortality, with inverted senses,
perceived the Self within." - the Vedas

"Men of childish intellect, ignorant persons, run after desires
which are external, and enter the trap of far-reaching death,
but the wise, understanding immortality, never seek for the
Eternal in this life of finite things."

But, with these, the inner nerves will become more and more susceptible
to miseries of mental pain, of which the savage does not think.

Take your hands away and see the light; you are effulgent, you are
perfect already, from the very beginning. We now understand
the verse: "He goes from death to death who sees the many here."
See that One and be free.

10- CHAPTER X THE FREEDOM OF THE SOUL

The Sat-Chit-Ananda — Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute — is the
nature, the birthright of the Soul, and all the manifestations that
we see are Its expressions, dimly or brightly manifesting Itself.

11- CHAPTER XI THE COSMOS The Macrocosm
We know that the huge mountains are being worked upon by glaciers
and rivers, which are slowly but surely pounding them and pulverising
them into sand, that drifts away into the ocean where it settles down
on its bed, layer after layer, becoming hard as rocks, once more to
be heaped up into mountains of a future generation. Again they will
be pounded and pulverised, and thus the course goes on. From sand
rise these mountains; unto sand they go.

The mountain comes from the sand, and goes back to the sand; the
river comes out of vapour, and goes back to vapour; plant life
comes from the seed, and goes back to the seed; human life comes
out of human germs, and goes back to human germs. The universe
with its stars and planets has come out of a nebulous state and
must go back to it.

But we have to learn one thing more. We have to go one step further,
and what is that? That every evolution is preceded by an involution.

In one word, we are born of Him, we live in Him, and unto Him we return.

12- CHAPTER XII THE COSMOS The Microcosm
Suppose in your library you are intently reading a book, and the clock
strikes, yet you do not hear it. The sound is there, the pulsations
in the air are there, the ear and the centre are also there, and
these vibrations have been carried through the ear to the centre,
and yet you do not hear it. What is wanting? The mind is not there.
Thus we see that the third thing necessary is, that the mind must be
there. First the external instruments, then the organ to which this
external instrument will carry the sensation, and lastly the organ
itself must be joined to the mind. When the mind is not joined to
the organ, the organ and the ear may take the impression, and yet
we shall not be conscious of it. The mind, too, is only the carrier;
it has to carry the sensation still forward, and present it to the
intellect. The intellect is the determining faculty and decides upon
what is brought to it. Still this is not sufficient. The intellect
must carry it forward and present the whole thing before the ruler
in the body, the human soul, the king on the throne. Before him
this is presented, and then from him comes the order, what to do
or what not to do; and the order goes down in the same sequence
to the intellect, to the mind, to the organs, and the organs
convey it to the instruments, and the perception is complete.

13- CHAPTER XIII IMMORTALITY
Life is another name for death, and death for life.

What do you mean by coming and going? All shallow nonsense. You are
everywhere. Then what is this coming and going? It is the
hallucination produced by the change of this fine body which you
call the mind. That is going on.

You are the sun, moon, and stars, it is you that are shining everywhere.
The whole universe is you. Whom are you going to hate or to fight?
Know, then, that thou art He, and model your whole life accordingly;
and he who knows this and models his life accordingly will no more
grovel in darkness.

16- CHAPTER XVI THE REAL AND THE APPARENT MAN
Everything that we see around us, feel, touch, taste, is simply a
differentiated manifestation of this Akasha. It is all-pervading,
fine. All that we call solids, liquids, or gases, figures, forms,
or bodies, the earth, sun, moon, and stars — everything is composed
of this Akasha.

What force is it which acts upon this Akasha and manufactures this
universe out of it? Along with Akasha exists universal power; all
that is power in the universe, manifesting as force or attraction
— nay, even as thought — is but a different manifestation of that
one power which the Hindus call Prana.

The atheists are sincere, but the man who says that he believes in
religion and never attempts to realise it is not sincere.

Насчет библии, я бы назвал в таком контексте Йога-Сутры Патанджали, как более ранний и целостный источник информации для 2-й сигнальной системы человека. Кстати, у Вивекананды есть книги Raja-Yoga и Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, но их я еще не читал. Правда, если взглянуть на фотографии Вивекананды и его годы жизни, становится понятно, что реализации своего физического аспекта в этой жизни он не достиг.