Vedanta: Contemporary Writings

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

In the author's words, The only true healing is accomplished by contact with the spiritual essence.

In this book, Swami Vividishananada, the founder of the Vedantic Society of Western Washington presents his thoughts and ideas of Vedantic teachings for the modern world initiated by Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda.  He was ordained by Swami Shivananda, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, and served as a monk in the United States from the thirties.

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

A collection of thoughtful questions and answers on spiritual practice in today's world.

Profound and practical spiritual discourses given by several direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna.

There is an organic wholeness to humanity. This is why human beings must, for their own sake, live by spiritual values.