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Swami Abhedananda

To establish the Order's work in India, Swamiji called Saradanandaji back from America. He asked Abhedanandaji to carry on the Vedanta work in the United States, so on 31 July 1897 Abhedanandaji left for New York and arrived there on 9 August. He was the guest of Miss Mary Phillips, the secretary of the Vedanta Society of New York, which Swamiji had founded in 1894. On 25th August a reception for Abhedanandaji was given by the Society.

The Vedanta Society of New York was moved to 117 Lexington Avenue. The Society's activities - lectures and classes, instructions and interviews - at the centre and in the homes where Abhedanandaji visited, were carried on for over twenty years under his able direction. The publication department was organized and a monthly bulletin was issued early in 1905 as an independent source of contact to particularly serve those who lived outside the centre's vicinity. The swami worked very hard; he slept very little, as he spent most of the night writing his books, the sale of which eventually made the Society self-supporting.