This is a powerful lecture delivered by Swami Vivekananda in San Francisco in 1900.It is one of the best books delineating, in brief, the fundamentals of Vedanta in a lucid, authoritative and candid tone.
There is only one sin -- and that sin is weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is the soul who never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.
-Swami Vivekananda