Jnana Yoga

The *Jnana-Yoga* lectures, delivered in New York and London between 1895 and 1896, present the Advaita Vedanta tradition in plain English for the first time. Across sixteen talks Vivekananda moves from the necessity of religion through Maya, the cosmos, and the doctrine of the real nature of man, arguing throughout that the goal of knowledge is to realise the identity of the individual self with the Absolute. Published from disciples' notes after his death, the book became — alongside the *Raja Yoga* volume — the most influential introduction to Vedanta in twentieth-century Indian thought.