This book is based on the address given by Swami Ranganathnanda at a luncheon meeting to a cosmopolitan gathering organized in his honour at the American Club in Tokyo in 1986. Originally published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, this is a revised edition of the book.

A simple book on a serious subject. What yoga is, and what it is not.

Contents: The Master as I Saw Him; Notes of Some Wanderings; Kedar Nath and Badri Narayan; Kali the Mother.

Contents: The Web of Indian Life; An Indian Study of Love and Death; Studies from an Eastern Home; Lectures and Articles.

Contents: Indian Art; Cradle Tales of Hinduism; Religion and Dharma; Aggressive Hinduism.

Contents: Footfalls of Indian History; Civic Ideal and Indian Nationality; Hints on National Education in India; Lambs Among Wolves.

Contents: On Education; On Hindu Life, Thought and Religion; On Political, Economic and Social Problems; Biographical Sketches and Reviews.

Nothing is more fascinating and yet shocking to human mind than death. The Katha Upanishad is a dialogue between a young boy Nachiketa - a seeker of Truth, and Yama - the Lord of Death. Who or where is God? How relevant is the sense world? And finally, what is beyond death? All these are discussed and explained very simply and directly in this book. Based on lectures on the Katha Upanishad given in New Delhi, India in 2005.