CONTENTS: Preface, Foreword, Introduction, PART I: FORMATIONS: 1. Higher Positivism, 2. Social Reality: Contradiction and Response, 3. The Meaning of Metaphysics, 4. Phenomenology of Human Relations: Some Reflections, 5. Philosophical Understanding and Religious Truth, 6. Dimensions of Self-Expression: Freedom and Constraints, 7. Philosophy and Social Change: An Indian Perspective, 8. Reflections on Contemporary Indian Philosophy, PART II: TRADITIONS: 9. Indian Cultural Tradition: A Quest for One, 10. Freedom and Moksa, 11. Vedanta and Neo-Vedanta: Some Reflections, 12. Theory-praxis Dialectic in the Advaita Vedanta: Swami Vivekananda and Ramana Maharsi, 13. Radhakrishnan’s Insight into the Meaning of Life, 14. Rabindranath’s Concept of Personality and the Surplus in Man, PART III: REFLECTIONS: 15. Democracy: Some Reflections, 16. Secularism: Concept and Connotations, 17. Tolerance and a Secular State: The Indian Perspective, 18. Is Contemporary Indian Society One-Dimensional?, 19. Ageing, Death, and Religion, Select List of Publications of S.P. Banerjee, Index.