This book is a collection of ideas of Swami Vivekananda on India's fall, her present condition, the way to her regeneration, and also on the youths who are to rebuild India today.
The important thing is how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter -- as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being. The more you think of yourself as spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free from matter, body and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.
-Swami Vivekananda