Mahapurush Swami Shivananda, one of the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna and the second President of the Ramakrishna Order, was a person who had scaled the depths of the Divine. His letters to devotees and spiritual seekers were treasured by them as unfailing blessings for the rest of their life. This book is a collection of the more important of these letters.
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