For Westerners, here is one of our most important books on working and living the spiritual life.

The practice of yoga can be fully practiced in our daily lives in a way that makes our lives more meaningful and productive.

The book covers both Bhakti Yoga and Karma-Yoga. With Bhakti Yoga we learn how to channel our emotions in a spiritual direction. With Karma Yoga learn the secret of how to work.

Famed 19-century author Romain Rolland writes about Swami Vivekananda:
His words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of a hero.