Tulsi
Badrinath




Book cover for "Swami Vivekananda: The Living Vedanta" by Chaturvedi Badrinath. The top of the cover features the Penguin Random House logo and the title in large, serif blue and red font. The center features a seated, sepia-toned historical portrait of Swami Vivekananda in a dark robe, fading into a white background. The author's name is printed in blue serif capital letters at the bottom.

Delighted that Penguin India has brought out a fresh edition of my father Chaturvedi Badrinath’s book Swami Vivekananda: The Living Vedanta. It celebrates the twentieth year of its existence. My preface, written for this edition, describes the difficulties my father had in trying to compress the wealth of material and the extraordinary life-story of the Swami and the further difficulties in getting it published when he exceeded the original world limit given to him. Over these twenty years, his book has been a steady favourite with its readers.