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.
This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.
-Swami Vivekananda