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".
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.
-Swami Vivekananda