Vivekananda once said, “I have a message to the West, as Buddha had a message to the East.” And the message was Vedanta. Culled from his collected works, this volume presents in a clear and concise form the tenets of a religion which has evolved over the course of five thousand years. This is a living Vedanta put forth by an extraordinary mind. If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative. – Rabindranath Tagore …Swami Vivekananda’s writings need no introduction from anybody. They make their own irresistible appeal. – Mahatma Gandhi