A book with a scholarly touch on the spiritual practices relating to jnana yoga and raja yoga \nIt has 3 parts : 1). introductory covering the concepts of atman and Brahman 2). birth based on the law of karma moulded by the law of vasnas and the bondage to the cycle of birth-death-rebirth and the quest for liberation and 3). meditation as the means of salvation. The appendix considers Patanjali's eight limbed path of yoga (raj yoga as it is described), in detail. The book is noteworthy for presentation of jnana yoga as the yoga of primary importance. The style is lucid and abounds in quotable verses from Sanskrit works of acknowledged authority, e.g (the verse at pg. 136)