Greed, hatred, jealousy, dishonesty....we become slaves to these emotions as they penetrate deeper and deeper into our psyche and as we forget the importance of religion in our lives. The very foundations on which society is based and sustained are eaten away by these negative feelings. We have forgotten our Divinity.

Swami Gokulananda, author of How to Overcome Mental Tension,has given many lectures and interviews on the subject of developing a positive attitude toward life, and many of these, edited for publication, are included in this book. As a senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order Swami Gokulananda brings much of Vedanta philosophy to his discussion of the ways we can learn to transform our lives and attitudes from darkness to light.