Advaita Vedanta is not a mere intellectual system or just a philosophy but a fact of experience. Advaita, with its message of oneness of Existence, may truly be called the real basis of brotherhood of man. The present book provides an outline of various schools of Advaita in a plain and lucid manner.
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