This book is specially written for young boys and girls. Written in simple English, it tries to introduce Swami Vivekananda to young readers in the hope that they will want to know more about this great man and get acquainted with his ideas and draw inspiration from them. This book may also serve as an excellent rapid reader for school students.
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