This booklet is a compilation from the writings of Sister Nivedita. A powerful writer as she was, she attempts here to portray, in her inimitable style, the excellence and vastness of the life and message of the great Swami Vivekananda in the perspective of India and the world. A book sure to be of great interest and value for all the followers and lovers of Swami Vivekananda and his philosophy.
Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery. The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the person who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
-Swami Vivekananda