A comprehensive collection of essays on different techniques of meditation, including those found in various scriptures, such as the Bhagavata, the Yoga Vashishtha, the Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, and the writings of Vivekananda, as well as in the Islamic and Christian traditions. General advice on meditation and a scientific appraisal are also included.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and activity, has its seat.
-Swami Vivekananda