Science of Religion

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1953. The value of this small book is beyond estimation in words, since between these narrow covers is to be found the flower of the Vedas and the Upanishads, the essence of Patanjali, foremost exponent of the Yoga philosophy and method, and in the thought of Sankara, greatest mind that ever dwelt in mortal body, placed for the first time within reach of the multitude. Preface and introduction; Universality, necessity and oneness of distinction between pain, pleasure, and God; Four fundamental religious intellectual, devotional, meditational, organic, scientific; Instruments of perception, inference, intuition.