What is it about Swami Vivekananda that makes him a great spiritual teacher? The obvious answer would be his spiritual realizations. But other great saints, too, have had such spiritual experiences and yet have not become world famous or made the kind of impact that the Swami did. The answer to this question comes from his Master, Sri Ramakrishna. The Swami was born with a divine mission. What that mission was, how the Swami fulfilled it, how he lived his life � these are some of the subjects dealt with in the thirty-nine illuminating articles of this volume. A highly valuable anthology for all the lovers of the great Swami.
What about this marvelous experience of standing alone, discarding all help, breasting the storms of life, of working without any sense of recompense, without any sense of putrid duty, and of working a whole life, joyful, free -- not goaded on to work like slaves by false human love or ambition?Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.
-Swami Vivekananda
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