The present volume is a translation of the original Bengali book, Swamijir Padaprante, by the late Swami Abjajananda, which was published on the occasion of Swami Vivekananda's birth centenary. In thirteen short biographies the author brings alive a galaxy of Swami Vivekananda's principal monastic disciples and shows how, through their spiritual practices and devoted service of God-in man, they exemplified, in manifold ways, the neo-monastic ideal. This ideal is ...