Author Info | - "Mrs. Asha Prasad did MA (Hindi) from Patna University in 1954. After this, she completed M.A. (Education Science) in 1957 from Columbia University (USA). She taught at Patna University for five years. Now, she is giving her entire time to writing and family. This book is a result of her study over five years. During this period, her essays on Swami Vivekanand, Subhas Chandra Bose, Prabhawati and Jaiprakash Narain were published in Dharyng and 'Saptahik Hindustan. Nowadays, she is busy in writing the biographies of Kasturba, Kamla Nehru and Prabhawati
Swami Vivekanand had motivated his disciples and colleagues to devote their entire life to the cause of social welfare. Mrs Asha Prasad has presented the episodes related to Swami Vivekanand's motivating tactics in a very interesting manner in this book. The collection of these interesting episodes must have been a very difficult task involving many hassles and obstructions. Mrs Prasad deserves congratulation as well as thanks. This book portrays a true sage who had looked for the way to get God through the welfare of the bare, hungry, Dalit and downtrodden. He was different from those sages who think that showing small magical tricks and gathering crowd of people are the pinnacle of Indian spiritualism
Today, our youths are sans any leader and thus, they are wandering hither and thither. This book can give new inspiration to those young men and women. Vivekanand had said to the youth, ""First of all, have faith in your own self. Then, have faith in God. A handful of strong human beings can shake the world. We need a heart that may be able to feel sensation. We need a brain that may be able to catch thoughts. We need a strong arm that may be able to do work. The history of the world is the history of those few people who had faith in themselves. Due to faith, the divine power within the human being, wakes up. Then, you can do anything"
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