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 am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
-Swami Vivekananda