Swami Ranganathananda (December 15, 1908 – April 25, 2005) of Ramakrishna Mission – 13 th president of Ramakrishna Mission. This is a collection of teachings of Swami Ranganathananda. What is the need for all types of showy religion and worship? True religion and worship is such a simple thing in which the whole life can become a dedication to the Divine. We can live in Him. He will live in us. This is what we can do. There you have pure spirituality. This is a wonderful development. When people understand the nature of bhakti, more and more of such people will appear in our society, reducing the current noisy, showy, costly worship. The whole of life becomes religion, as Vivekananda said, as quoted by Sister Nivedita in her Introduction to the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: 'Life itself is religion'." But a man is always active in one form or the other… Something pulls us out into action. That is our own nature within. That nature finds expression in makin