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.
This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.
-Swami Vivekananda