There is a wide-spread belief that the tradition of spiritual life which was developed within the Upanishadic circles with its insistence upon self-conquest, contemplation, and direct God-Vision, the three essential elements of Upanishadic Mysticism, is a mere relic of the past, having no points of contact with modern life. But this belief if entirely unfounded. The old tradition has not lost its compelling force in the modern word: it continues to exercise its ...
