Hinduism

In September 1893, a young wandering monk from Bengal stood before thousands in Chicago and spoke four words that stopped a room cold. Swami Vivekananda hadn't come to argue or convert --- he had come to share, openly and without condition, a wisdom tradition that America had never encountered as an equal. What happened next surprised everyone, including him. His thunderous reception at the Parliament of World Religions was only the beginning.

Harmonia leads us into a Rajput palace at night, where a young princess named Mirabai slips into a small inner temple and sings to Krishna not as a distant god but as her true beloved. Born into the warrior nobility of sixteenth-century Rajasthan and married into the proud house of Mewar, Mirabai is expected to be a veiled ornament of honor-a quiet widow after her husband's early death.