This book is comprised of lectures and talks of Swami Prabhavananda on spiritual life. The Swami had an extraordinary ability to make even the most subtle of enigmatic ideas exciting and comprehensible. He contributed a great deal to the understanding of Vedanta in the West and also facilitated a better understanding of all the religions of the world.
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe -- the body -- is the soul.
-Swami Vivekananda