A most valuable and lucid compendium of Advaita philosophy describing the transcendental knowledge of Brahman, and the way to achieve it through discrimination and meditation. Being an original production of Shankara's genius, the whole book is instinct with the prophetic vision of a seer, a man of realization, and the expression is so lucid and poetical that quite a new life has been breathed into the dry bones of philosophical discussion, and that too, on this most abstruse subject.
Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are -- infinite spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.
-Swami Vivekananda