A collection of the sayings of the patriot saint of India, Swami Vivekananda, arranged by subject. Includes a biographical introduction by Christopher Isherwood.

The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel. -- Swami Vivekananda

His words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of a hero.--- Romain Rolland
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