Biographical introduction by Christopher Isherwood. A pictorial biography celebrating the centenary of Vivekananda's coming to the West and his universal message of Vedanta.
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