This compilation of lectures on Vedanta by Swami Sarvagatananda helps the reader envisage the perfect relationship between the most ancient Vedantic truths and the later developed religious thoughts and bases them on the same principle of oneness, which naturally harmonizes different religions and transcends belief systems.
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.
-Swami Vivekananda