Be One with God
A guiding light to mankind
A compilation of the timeless wisdom of Swami Vivekananda, gathered into a single volume for readers who want his guidance without hunting through nine volumes of collected works. Published during the 2020 lockdown and into a second print within months.
- Published
- 2020
- Genre
- Spirituality · Compilation
- Language
- English
About the book
I did not set out to write a book of my own. Having spent years inside Swami Vivekananda’s literature, the honest question was not what can I add? but what is already there that too few people are reading? The answer was a compilation — his thought, arranged so that someone encountering it for the first time has somewhere to begin.
TODO — replace this section with your own description of the book: what is in it, how it is arranged, and who you made it for.
How it came about
It began in the 2020 lockdown, and took close to nine months from first idea to finished stock. Typesetting, cover, proofing, printing, listing, and shipping — most of it done alone, and most of it learnt on the way.
Copies went to every state in India, to teachers, students, doctors, engineers, social workers, and to monastics. The book reached a second print, and a copy now sits in the Mysore Ashrama book stall.
I wrote the whole account up on the blog: The marathon of publishing my first book.
TODO — add the page count and publisher/imprint to the frontmatter above, and drop the cover image into
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