The Divine Life

The object of this small book is to give a clear conception of the theory as well as the practice of spiritual life, to seekers both in the East and the West. The selections included are only representative of their type; they are by no means exhaustive. Most of them have been taken from the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita, but the chapters on Moral Culture and Monistic Meditations contain passages from other sources as well.

The paramount need of moral culture has been stressed by means of selections from different Sanskrit scriptures; for true divine life always means “ethics in the beginning, ethics in the middle, and ethics in the end”. Monistic meditations are not easily available to those who would like to have them for their constant use. In order to remove this want, a fairly representative collection of those has been selected.

The quotations, arranged as they are under different heads, deal with the fundamental problems of spiritual life. Transcending the narrow bounds of creeds, religions and countries, they set forth in the language of the soul, the ways and means of spiritual evolution and unfoldment that are of universal application. Universally true as they are in spirit, may they prove helpful to many a sincere seeker after Truth!

The Introduction will, it is trusted, bring home to the intelligent reader, the necessity of taking a comprehensive standpoint in the study of spiritual life.

The idea of this collection existed in the mind of the compiler even in India. But it could take shape only in the course of his Vedanta work, first at Wiesbaden in Germany, and later on, at St. Moritz in the charming valley of the Engadin lying in the heart of the Alps in Switzerland.

**Contents and Sample Pages**