This booklet comprises of class talks given by Swami Vivekananda to an intimate audience in America. Here the subject of practical spirituality in the form of Raja Yoga is presented in a very lucid and succinct form, offering many valuable hints and directions for spiritual practice. The book is thus designed to be a precious and authoritative guide for all serious students of practical religion.
I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
-Swami Vivekananda