In this book the author discusses the subject of human development in India's post-independent social, economic, and political context. He draws our attention to the subject of man and the problem of inter-human relationship, advocating service as the finest form of inter-human relationship.
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful.
-Swami Vivekananda