This wonderful book gives the readers a closer view of Swami Vivekananda's personality as a monk, a teacher and leader, an artist, a mystic and philosopher, a conversationalist, a patriot-saint of modern India, and several other aspects of his many-sided genius. This over-view of the Swami's life with its in-depth study of his personality by his disciples is surely to be read by his lovers and admirers with absorbing interest and much profit.�
I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
-Swami Vivekananda