Swami Ashokananda charts out a path for steady, sure advancement toward the goal of human life, spiritual illumination. Chapters include:

The Psychology of God-Vision

Why is the Mind So Restless

The Practice of Interiorness

Why Should We Practice Concentration

The Four Pillars of Wisdom

How to Cultivate Love For God

Spiritual Practice For Beginners

Spiritual Practice for the Advanced

The World of Infinite Light

Devanagari text, transliteration, and English translation. The Song of the Free, a classic text of Advaita Vedanta, expresses the highest experience of the unfettered Self.

A collection of fourteen editorials written by Swami Ashokananda between 1926 and 1930 when he served as editor of Prabuddha Bharata. These editorials deal with the vital role, spiritual and practical, that India must play in this age if she is to attain her full potential and from which the whole world will necessarily benefit. The following list includes all chapter titles:

Some Fundamentals of Hinduism-I

Some Fundamentals of Hinduism-II

Fire-Bath of Reason

Swami Vivekanada: The Inner Man

The Origin of Swami Vivekanada's Doctrine of Service

The Dream of New Perfection

So Simple Yet So Complex: The Anatomy of Universal Religion

Will the Twain Meet?

Looking Beyond the Frontier

Through the Dark to the New Dawn

Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New

Lest We Forget

The Synthetic Vision

A Call to the Eternal

'The Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel' is a biography of Swami Vivekananda written by the French author Romain Rolland in 1920s. In the book, it is evident that the author does not believe that India has had any role in shaping global thought and culture, and nor does he believe that the philosophy of the Upanishads has influenced Western thought in any way. As a rebuttal to Rolland's view on the subject, Swami Ashokananda wrote an article which was published serially in 1931 in the English journal 'Prabuddha Bharata'. Since the article is of great relevance even today, it is being published in a book form under the same title.

The author, Swami Ashokananda, is renowned for his thought-provoking lectures and articles on Vedanta philosophy and its practical application in daily life. This book borrows its title from an inspired utterance of Swami Vivekananda which forms the subject of the Swami’s deliberations presented herein as the first lecture. By his forceful lectures based on deep reasoning, the Swami turns our attention to the Divine within. The lectures and articles included here were earlier published in Prabuddha Bharata and Vedanta Kesari, the two English monthly journals of the Ramakrishna Order. The articles included are: Let us be God; God and the other God; Free will or predestination? Thinking versus meditation;  The quest for power;  Reality as the Supreme person;  The great lie; The religion of the future and the future of religion;  Sri Sankaracharya: A study;  Swami Vivekananda, the Ideal for the modern age.

Eight lectures delivered by Swami Ashokananda to American audiences which provide a comprehensive view of the Vedanta philosophy and which will inspire spiritual aspirants along whatever path they may be following. Chapter titles include:

The Teacher-Prophets of Vedanta

The Theory and Practice of Monism

The Razor's Edge

Meditate While You Work: A New Path for a New Age

Ritualism: Its Place in Spiritual Life

When the Heart Cries For God

God and God-men inVedanta

Meditation, Ecstasy, and Illumination

A reverent, personal appreciation of blessings and guidance received from this great disciple of Sri Ramakrishna.

A valuable new guide to the practice of Vedanta. More than 800 spiritual instructions illuminate the path to Self-Knowledge and bring eternal truths to the modern mind.

Swami Ashokananda provides an explanation of the involution and evolution of the soul, providing not only an intellectual understanding of the soul's journey, but practical counsel on how to speed it toward the spiritual goal. Chapter titles include the following:

What Makes a Man

The Mysterious Ways of the Mind

Why We Are What We Are

The Soul's Journey to Its Destiny

The Birth and Death of the Ego

The Unconscious and the Superconscious

The Significance and Importance of the Conscious Mind

The Kundalini and the Awakening of the Higher Consciousness

Two lectures on living Vedanta delivered in San Francisco in 1957 and 1955 respectively.