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.
I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes--when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.
-Swami Vivekananda