This is a compilation from the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Readers interested to know about the preparations needed for experiencing spiritual truths will find this booklet highly informative and inspiring, and at the same time, concise and brief.
Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.
-Swami Vivekananda