This two-volume set provides the most exhaustive and authoritative biography of a man whom the world knows as a giant intellect, a great scholar and orator, a patriotic Hindu, a powerful preacher of Vedanta, and above all, a mystic par excellence?Swami Vivekananda. This biography presents the Swami, a multi-faceted personality, in all his moods and varied illumination so as to reveal the man as he was. A must for all the admirers of the Swami.
Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.
-Swami Vivekananda
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