The Ocean of the Soul -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Translator's Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Death and Transitoriness -- Chapter Two: The World -- Chapter Three: Distress, Suffering and Oppression: A Theodicy -- Chapter Four: The Religious Situation -- Chapter Five: The Unquenched Drive for Knowledge -- Chapter Six: Worldly People -- Chapter Seven : Men of Power -- Chapter Eight: The Emotional Attitude of the Pious -- Chapter Nine: The Poet on Himself -- Chapter Ten: Strife with God: The Fool -- Chapter Eleven: The Value of Life. This World and the Hereafter. Overcoming Fear of Death -- Chapter Twelve: Renunciation of the World and Asceticism -- Chapter Thirteen: Trust in God's Providence -- Chapter Fourteen: Contentedness and Poverty -- Chapter Fifteen: The Interpretation of Suffering. Patience-Gratitude-Contentment -- Chapter Sixteen: The Transformation and Conquest of Sorrow and Suffering -- Chapter Seventeen: God's Mercy and Kindness -- Chapter Eighteen: The Means of Mercy -- Chapter Nineteen: Works: Being God's Slave -- Chapter Twenty: Virtues of the Inner Attitude -- Chapter Twenty-One: Social Virtues -- Chapter Twenty-Two: The Relationship with Animals -- Chapter Twenty-Three: Seeking Closeness to God -- Chapter Twenty-Four: Earthly Love with Social and Legal Ties -- Chapter Twenty-Five: Earthly Love as Free Emotion -- Chapter Twenty-Six: Religiou s Love of a Beautiful Person -- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Pure Love of God -- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Extinction and Union with Divinity -- Chapter Twenty-Nine: God, the World and the Universal Soul -- Chapter Thirty: Travelling Within Oneself. Metaphysical Self-Importance. Final Extinction -- Abbreviated Titles -- Bibliography -- Analytic Index -- Additional Notes.