Synopsis This book brings together 18 talks by Swami Chinmayananda on diverse subjects of concern in modern times.  In this Edition, diactritical marks are used for transliteration of samskrta wards in the commentary. Non-English words have been italicized. This will help readers to identify and pronounce the words correctly. The English plural signs has been added to untranslated samskrta words after a hyphen - to show that it is not elemental to the word eg Mantra-s, Veda-s, Rsi-s etc. A key to the transliteration and pronunciation has been added in the beginning of the book.