A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

*was giving expression. He travelled through various citiesin America, in England and in India, delivering addressesand sometimes a course of lectures or again holding classeswhere he discoursed on a multitude of topics in response tonumerous inquiries after truth. To his countrymen hisspeeches were a trumpet call to duty. To use one of hisown familiar phrases, he preached in Gita fashion exhorting them to cast off the customs and superstitionsof degenerate days and to rise to the grand and noble concep-""""tion of the Upanishadic divinity of man. In active or contemplative life he preached strength, courage and nobilityof character. He was full of the consciousness of a great.mission, while whatever he spoke was an offering to theservice of his Master.Fellow-workers in the same field are continuing hislabours in the remotest parts of the world, preaching theeternal religion of the saints of India.His admirers might be numbered by thousands. Tohis fellow-workers, to the Indian public and to the manyfollowers of tjieSwami in England and America, this firstpublication of a comprehensive and fairly exhaustive collection of his speeches and writings will, it is believed, bk ayaluable possession and an abiding source of inspirationand hope.^; ;V