The Life of Vivekananda
By Romain Rolland, 328 pages, Hardcover.
In this volume, Romain Rolland, the great French savant, presents a fascinating and graphic account of Swami Vivekananda's life and message. About his teachings he says: "Vivekananda's words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!"
In this volume, Romain Rolland, the great French savant, presents a fascinating and graphic account of Swami Vivekananda's life and message. About his teachings he says: "Vivekananda's words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!"
