In these last writings of Swami Siddheswarananda, the former head of the French Ramakrishna Order, the Swami sought to convey an experience of intuition beyond logic, outside the play of opposites, through which we will be better able to understand the nature of reality. To elucidate his meanings and make them accessible, he draws on the writings of others including Meister Eckhart, Ramana Mararshi, Shankara, Hubert Benoit, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda.

Swami Siddheswarananda (1897-1957) was a monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India who later became the spiritual head of the Centre Védantique Ramakrishna in Gretz, Fr.