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.
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
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