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NEW LIVES 50 WESTERNERS SEARCH FOR THEMSELVES IN SACRED INDIA (Ram Alexander)
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In the pages of this book we are taken on a pilgrimage of spiritul discovery. With our guide, Malcolm Tillis, we wander the length & breadth of India in search of other Westerners who, like him, have forsaken their old lives in the West for totally new, dramatically more meaningful ones in the East. By seeing Indian spirituality through the eyes of outsiders who were not born into the ancient culture, but found tremendous personal meaning therein, we discover it new & fresh with each individual Malcolm interviews. Each of these individuals has discovered an enormous spiritual wealth in India that material prosperity & technological ‘advancements’ of the West seem obscenely desolate & primitive in comparison. Contemporary India readers should find this particularly relevant, as India becomes more ‘modern’ & on par with the West, & as they find themselves increasingly in a simlar postion with regard to rediscovering their own heritage. Some of the people interviered, renowned today, have remarkable life-stories: Vijayananda:-met the great saint Anandamayi Ma with whom he found all he hoped for. He moved into her ashram to live the life of a contemplative reununciate, where he remains to this day, now a revered & venerable teacher himself. Ani Tenzin Palmo (Diana Perry) spent much of her time residing & medditating in a cave in the Himalayas at an altitude of over 12,000 ft. Today she is one of the better known figures in contemporary Buddhism.
450/=Nine Principal Upanishads From the teachings of Swami Satyananda Saraswati (Munger, Bihar)
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T Nine Principal Upanishads are the culmination of vedic thought & contain the essence of the original vedantic teaching. They impart sublime truths about the nature & destiny of mankind revealed by great sages & seers during informal discussions with disciples & spiritual seekers. These Upanishads deacribe the direct experience of transcendence which results in the unity of the individual with the highest consciousness. They also provide methods of meditation to realize the nature of Atman, the supreme soul, & to attain the immortal Brahman. The Essence of the Upanishads:-******************************************** The Glory of the Upanishads (1). Salutations to all Brahma Vidya Gurus, of the preceptors of knowledge of Brahman. (2). Prostrations to Satchidananda Para Brahman, who is the prop, basis & source of everything. (3). The acme of wisdom of the sages is to be found in the Upanishads. (4). The Upanishads teach the philosophy of absolute unity. (5). Knowledge of the Upanishads destroys ignorance, the seed of samsara. (6). Behind the names & forms of the world dwells the eternal, infinite Satchidananda Brahman. (7). This world is indwelt by Para Brahman or the Absolute. (8). Renounce all desires. Renounce egoism, selfishness & identification with the body. Then alone will you attain moksha of liberation. (9). The desire for liberation will destroy all worldly desires. (10). Do you religious rites & daily duties without expectation of the fruits of your actions. (11). Constantly do selfless service for the benefit of humanity with Atma bhava, or devotion to God. You will purify your heart in this way. Then realization will dawn. (12). Your work & actions will not bind you if you perform them without egoism & without expectations.
150/=PAPAJI (INTERVIEWS) BY DAVID GODMAN
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H.WL. Poonja:- My earliest memory is of a striking experience which occurred when I was about eight years old. The year was 1919. The British, having recently triumphed in the First World War, had given all schoolchildren a one month holiday so that they could join in the victory celebrations. They even gave us a little badge to wear to commemorate the victory. We were living in Faisalabad at the time, in a part of the Punjab that is now in Pakistan. My mother decided that unscheduled vacation would be an ideal time to go & visit some of our relatives who lived in Lahore. The visit must have taken place in the summer of that year because I distinctly remember that mangoes were in season at the time. One evening, while we were all sitting in my relative’s house in Lahore, someone started to prepare a mango, milk & almond drink for everyone. It should have been a mouth-watering treat for a boy of my age, but when a glassful of it was offered to me, I made no attempt to stretch out my hand to receive………………………………………………………………….. At the end of this two-day period I opened my eyes again. My mother, who an ardent Krishna bhakta, came up to me & asked, ‘Did you see Krishan?’ Seeing how happy I was, she had abandoned her initial idea that I had been possessed & had substituted for it a theory that I had had some kind of mystical experience involving her own favourite deity…… ‘No I replied,’ all I can say about it is that I was very happy. As far as my first were concerned, I was as much in ignorance as my family. I did not know what I had been experiencing or what had precipitated this sudden immersion into intense & paralyzing happiness. I told my mother when she pressed me further, ‘There was tremendous happiness, tremendous peace, tremendous beauty. More than I cannot asy.’ It had been, in fact, a direct experience of the Self, but I did not understand this at the time. It was to be many years before I fully appreciated what had happened to me. My mother would not give up her theory. She went & fetched a picture which portrayed Krishna as a child, showed it to me & asked, ‘Did you see anyone like this?
245/=PATANJALA YOGA SUTRAS (Sanskrta Sutras with Transliteration, Translation & Commentary by) Dr. P.V. Karambelkar
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It gives me immense pleasure in presenting this English Commentary on Yoga Sutras, the most important text of Yoga, composed by Maharsi Patanjali. The science of Yoga does not originate with Patanjali. It was prevalent long before the emergence of Patanjali, who only systematized it, which is evident from the very first aphorism of Patanjala Yoga Sutras (P.Y.S.) ‘atha yoganusasanam’ (see commentary on P.Y.S.I.I) Thua in modern times we owe to Maharsi Patanjali for the systematic persentation of Traditional Yogic lore embodied in the Indian scriptures prior to Patanjali. Patanjali has presented this ancient Yoga vidya (the Knowledge of Yoga) in such a Scientific & Rational way that every theory, hypothesis & principle put forth by Patanjali can be tested through most rigorous modern scientific methobology. Perhaps this is the reason that modern Spiritual trends seem to have their roots in Patanjala Yoge Sutras. This provides the Patanjala Yoga Sutras a staras a of Yoga Sastra to be studied by every Scientific Student of Yoga. It will not out of place here to mention about how & why I was prompted to write a commentary on Yoga Sutra.
300/=PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS (Commentary by H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shonkar)
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Shaaana are the rules that society or somebody else imposes on you. Anushaasana are the rules that you impose on youself. Now, why is Yoga called a discipline? Where is the need for a discipline? When does the need for a discipline arise? When you are thirsty, you want to drink water. You do not feel that it is a rule to drink water when you are thirsty. And when you are hungry you eat. You do feel that you have the discipline of eating when you are hungry; that you have a discipline of enjoying the nature. No discipline is necessary for enjoyment. When is discipline relevant? Not when something is enjoyable at the very firet step. A child never says that it has the discipline of running to his mother when he sees her.
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