It is an undoubted fact that the message of Swami Vivekananda has influenced, inspired, and transformed hundreds of lives. Here in the following pages are given some quotations from the great Swami for the benefit of those who have not read him or who cannot make time to go through his voluminous writings and speeches, so that they may get at least a partial glimpse of the strength and sublimity of his teachings. These quotations may be helpful even to those who have studied his works. For sometimes one or two words of this great dynamic personality are sufficient to invigorate a drooping spirit, or to awaken one to a new sense of hope and courage when everything seems dark and circumstances appear insurmountable. When one reads the writings of a person like Swami Vivekananda who has touched on so many topics of our individual and national life, one is sure to have one's own choice of his sayings or preference for particular passages. It is but natural. So any selection, however careful, will be found incomplete. The compiler will consider his labour fruitful, if the following selections will create in one a desire to read Swami Vivekananda more thoroughly and find out for oneself what phase of his message appeals to him most.

Table of Contents ;

Preface
Introduction
1. Atman or the Self
2. Bhakti or the Love of God
3. Brahman or the Supreme Reality
4. Buddha
5. Buddhism
6. Christ
7. Christianity
8. Concentration
9. Duty
10. Education
11. Ethics
12. Faith
13. Food
14. Freedom and Mukti (Salvation)
15. Gita
16. God
17. Guru or the Spiritual Guide
18. Happiness
19. Hinduism
20. Hindus
21. The Householder's Life
22. Ideal Womanhood
23. Image Worship
24. Incarnation
25. India-cause of Her Degenera-tion
26. India-her Characteristics
27. India - the Way to her Regene-Ration
28. Krishna and Karma-yoga
29. Knowledge and Ignorance
30. Man
31. Maya
32. Meditation
33. Mind and Thought
34. Mohammed and Islam
35. Non-injury
36. Oneness
37. Ramakrishna
38. Religion
39. Sannyasa or the Monastic Life
40. Service
41. Strength
42. Upanishads
43. Vedanta : Its Theory & Practice
44. Yoga