Rabindranath Tagore's "Sadhana: The Realization of Life" delivers the message of the human connection to universal transcendence in hauntingly beautiful English prose. Perched as he was at the cusp of the Twentieth Century, Tagore saw with penetrating insight the fallacies of the age of science. Sadhana is an excellent primer on classical Hinduism, as Tagore beautifully quotes the Vedas and Upanishads with Sanskrit transliteration to convey the loveliness of the vocal cadences of that ancient tongue. Sadhana ranks with Psalms, the Tao De Ching, the Dhammapada, Zen Mind Beginners Mind and other enduring classics of world spiritual literature for its directness, simplicity, and beauty of expression.