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.
I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes--when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.
-Swami Vivekananda