A collection of articles by well-known scholars, culled mainly from the pages of the Cultural Heritage of India. The purpose is to present to the public in a smaller book the knowledge of Vedanta which, according to Swami Vivekananda, "alone�can become the universal religion of man".
The important thing is how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter -- as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being. The more you think of yourself as spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free from matter, body and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.
-Swami Vivekananda