A collection of articles by monks of the Ramakrishna Order explaining some important and fundamental aspects of spiritual life, and stressing on the preparations a spiritual aspirant must undergo before devoting himself to intense spiritual practices.
I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
-Swami Vivekananda