This is a collection of essays on spiritual disciplines according to the different teachers of various philosophical persuasions along with articles on specific spiritual practices like meditation, repetition of the holy name, prayer, etc. The reader is sure to be benefited by gaining a comparative knowledge of the various disciplines envisaged in the scriptures that is given in this book.
Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.
-Swami Vivekananda