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 ;PrefaceIntroduction1. Atman or the Self2. Bhakti or the Love of God3. Brahman or the Supreme Reality4. Buddha5. Buddhism6. Christ7. Christianity8. Concentration9. Duty10. Education11. Ethics12. Faith13. Food14. Freedom and Mukti (Salvation)15. Gita16. God17. Guru or the Spiritual Guide18. Happiness19. Hinduism20. Hindus21. The Householder's Life22. Ideal Womanhood23. Image Worship24. Incarnation25. India-cause of Her Degenera-tion26. India-her Characteristics27. India - the Way to her Regene-Ration28. Krishna and Karma-yoga29. Knowledge and Ignorance30. Man31. Maya32. Meditation33. Mind and Thought34. Mohammed and Islam35. Non-injury36. Oneness37. Ramakrishna38. Religion39. Sannyasa or the Monastic Life40. Service41. Strength42. Upanishads43. Vedanta : Its Theory & Practice44. Yoga

    His deeper insight into this came from his own spiritual practices for which he found vivid allegorical descriptions in the Vedas. Sri Aurobindo was able to uncover the mystery of the double meanings, the inner psychological and yogic significance and practices and the consistent, clear sense brought by this psychological view of the Vedic hymns. Finally, the true inner meaning of the Veda and its relevance to the seekking after self-realization and enlightenment is revealed.

    This is the best introduction available to the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo.

    Gandhiji was solidly rooted in Indian tradition and the practice of civil disobedience was a vital method of social protest which he inherited from the same tradition. Gandhiji acknowledged this profound debt when he wrote: 'In India, the nation at large has generally used passive resistance in all departments of life. We cease to cooperate with our rulers when they displease us.'Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition is the story of a major satyagraha against a new series of taxes including a house tax proposed by the British in the city of Benaras and other areas under British colonial rule around 1810. The book comprises the almost day by day account of the day account of the popular resistance to the tax, and its eventual withdrawal by the British, revealed through the letters of anguished district magistrates and imperious officials. The accounts are preceded by an introduction written by Dharamapal in which he sheds light on several other available indigenous forms of political protest including dharna and traga and discusses incidents of resistance, similar to those at Benaras that erupted in other areas of the country as well.Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition is the second in the series of five volumes of the collected writings of Dharampal