Emerson and Vedanta is a book written by Paramananda, a Swami who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. The book explores the relationship between the teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a prominent American philosopher, and the principles of Vedanta, a Hindu philosophy. The book begins by discussing the similarities between Emerson's philosophy of self-reliance and the Vedantic concept of Atman, or the true self. It goes on to examine Emerson's ideas...