Mahapurush Swami Shivananda, one of the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna and the second President of the Ramakrishna Order, was a person who had scaled the depths of the Divine. His letters to devotees and spiritual seekers were treasured by them as unfailing blessings for the rest of their life. This book is a collection of the more important of these letters.
The important thing is how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter -- as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being. The more you think of yourself as spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free from matter, body and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.
-Swami Vivekananda