In this book the author has laid down some practical steps for all sincere spiritual aspirants eager to make spiritual progress. He specially deals with the preliminary stages of practical religion. His valuable suggestions from his own experiences will be a useful guide to all religious aspirants whom modern life assails with various doubts and difficulties in the practice of religious precepts. A very informative book for all earnest beginners in spiritual life to help them form a clear picture of the spiritual ideal, the gulf between them and the goal, and the ways to fill up that gulf.
I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
-Swami Vivekananda