CONTENTS

Preface

Note on Pronunciation

KARMA-YOGA

      Karma and Its Effect on Character

      Each Is Great in His Own Place

      The Secret of Work

      What Is Duty?

      We Help Ourselves, Not the World

      Non-attachment Is Complete Self-abnegation

      Freedom

      The Ideal of Karma-Yoga

BHAKTI-YOGA

      Definition of Bhakti

      The Philosophy of Iśvara

      Spiritual Realization: the Aim of Bhakti-Yoga

      The Need of a Guru

      Qualifications of the Aspirant and the Teacher

      Incarnations

      The Mantra: Om

      Worship of Substitutes and Images

      The Chosen Ideal

      How to Cultivate Bhakti

      The Preparatory Renunciation

      The Bhakta’s Renunciation Results from Love

      The Naturalness of Bhakti and Its Central Secret

      Forms of Love-manifestation

      Universal Love

      The Oneness of the Higher Knowledge and the Higher Love

      The Triangle of Love

      The God of Love Is His Own Proof

      Human Representations of Divine Love

      Conclusion

MISCELLANEOUS LECTURES

      What Is Religion?

      Buddha’s Message to the World

      The Great Teachers of the World

      The Rāmāyana

      The Mahābhārata

Glossary

Index