This beautiful volume brings under one cover all the important ideas that are authentic and abiding, challenging and refreshing in religion. Moreover, these are the words of one who has been known to the world as the best exponent of religion and spirituality in modern times, viz. Swami Vivekananda. A valuable addition to one's bookshelf, this book will arouse further interest in the readers to learn more about the life and teachings of the great Swami. A perfect volume to get at the root of religion and its practice.
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