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.
The nature of the brutes is to remain where they are, of human beings to seek good and avoid evil, and of God to neither seek nor avoid but just to be blissful eternally. Let us be like God.
-Swami Vivekananda