The topics discussed in this book pertain not to any particular event in history, but deal essentially with the broad sweep of the modern age and with the vital role that India must play, both spiritual and practical, in this age if she is to attain her full potential?a consummation from which the world will necessarily benefit. Originally these articles were published as editorials in the monthly journal Prabuddha Bharata in the later half of the 1920s and had created a stir in the India's intellectual, nationalist, and religious circles, being extremely thoughtful and deeply inspiring.
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
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