Contains a selection of choicest prayers of universal appeal from Sanskrit scriptures, together with their English translation. For those who want to know why they should pray and what they ought to pray for, it gives the necessary guidance through its Introduction. These selections from Vedas, Puranas, Tantras and Sanskrit hymns are all expressive of the deep spiritual longings and realizations of the Hindu race.
There is only one sin -- and that sin is weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is the soul who never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.
-Swami Vivekananda