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.
I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
-Swami Vivekananda