In this short booklet Sankara gives a practical guide to many of the problems faced by a seeker of truth, in the form of a series of questions and answers.
The less the thought of the body, the better it is. For it is the body that drags us down. It is attachment, identification which makes us miserable. That is the secret: to think that I am the spirit and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings--scenes on a canvas--of which I am the witness.
-Swami Vivekananda