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Vedanta: Voice Of Freedom by Swami Vivekananda is a book that has been compiled by Swami Chetananda, a follower of Swami Vivekananda. The introduction for the book has been written by Christopher Isherwood and Hustor Smith. Swami Chetananda himself has written a foreword linking Vedanta and Vivekananda. The author has compiled the findings of Swami Vivekananda and put them in a book format. The book has been divided into chapters, and the first chapter poses the question ‘What Is Vedanta?’ The book defines Vedanta as the sum total of the Vedas, and defines Vedas as entities having no specific starting point or ending. The second chapter describes the philosophy of Vedanta, and the religion of Vedanta finds a mention in the third chapter. The fourth chapter describes the presence of man and god as found in Vedanta, and the fifth one deals with the theory of Maya. The sixth and seventh chapters cover Karma and Jnana Yoga, respectively. Bhakti Yoga and Raja Yoga are explained in the eighth and ninth chapters, respectively. The tenth, eleventh, and twelfth chapter cover Vedanta in Practice, The Goal of Vedanta, and The Universality of Vedanta, respectively. Swami Vivekananda was born on January 12, 1863 in Kolkata, West Bengal. He has written other books such as Karma Yoga and Lectures from Colombo to Almora (1897).  His original name was Narendra Nath Datta, and he was born in a noble family. Swami became a disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and attended the World Congress of Religions at Chicago, where he delivered his world famous speech. He died on July 4, 1902, in Belur Math near Kolkata.