A wonderful biographical album printed in hight-quality art paper. Contains 233 photographs, arranged chronologically with a life-sketch of Swami Vivekananda, chronological table, write-ups and quotations from Swamiji for each photograph, etc. It includes almost all the available pictures of Swamiji, separate and in group, and many pictures of places and persons connected with him.
Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.
-Swami Vivekananda