Author: Sri Chinmoy
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 396
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120819438
Description
In a world where few feel totally at ease, Sri Chinmoy offers a plan for world and soul survival. Sri Chinmoy's deep love for God is known worldwide. Long revered as a spiritual force for peace at the United Nations, this humble God-directed author asks people of this planet to look within, to rediscover the essential truths of spirituality that have so blessed his extraordinary life.
The name Chinmoy, meaning full of divine consciousness, bespeaks the mission of this deep soul. He lives to be an unconditional instrument of God. He trusts God. There is a sympathetic oneness with God and people throughout his reflections. He becomes sad when he thinks of how people have used religion to separate themselves from one another.
Sri Chinmoy suggests that the spiritual life's goal is self-transcendence. While man reaches up to God, God in turn reaches down to man. The connection occurs and deepens as each person aspires to open himself to the Light of God, the Will of God and a higher state of consciousness.
Sri Chinmoy believes that God will save our world. The Light of God is stronger than the forces of evil. While he has deep confidence in God, his tranquil reflections portray an urgency which calls out to mankind?: Wake up! Grow deeper! Love in such a way that God's Will be done.
REVIEWS
Sri Chinmoy's glance expresses more than all the words in the world. Following the Indian tradition, he is one who ever revitalizes. The mutual friendship that unites us is proof of the deep resonance that can exist between initiates devoted to the cause of spirituality on earth.
- Pir Vilayat Khan
Head of the Sufi Order in the West
Sri Chinmoy listens with the heart, writes with the head, and journeys with the soul. People of all religions will get closer to God from meditating on these universal and soul-searching truths.
-Monsignor Thomas Hartman
Diocese of Rockville Center, New York
Our own age can rejoice in having free access, to the Himalayan resource of the spiritual wisdom of Sri Chinmoy, One of the foremost spiritual teachers of the ages stands among us now, and this exquisite compilation of his profound wisdom is accessible to us.
-Prof. John Mcaleer, PhD
Professor of English, Boston College
This excellent book, which opens up a portal to the wisdom of Sri Chinmoy, is more than adequate as an introduction to this extraordinary man of many talents and a laudable self-imposed mission, Let (it) be your ABC into the exemplary life of indescribable richness, which, in all its many facets, will inspire you to be a better human being.
-Dr Ananda W P Guruge
Dean of Academic Affairs, International Academy of Buddhism
Many beacons of light and love have left us, but we must be thankful that Sri Chinmoy is here, teaching, creating, inspiring thousands and by transmitting the most ancient wisdom, easing our transition into the new millenium.
-Professor Charles Johnson
Professor of English, University of Washington
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Inspiration
AUM
Avatar
Beauty
Belief
Body
Choice
Concentration
Consciousness
Death
Desire
Devotion to the Guru
The Disciple-Master Relationship
Discipline
Doubt
Drugs
Duty
Ego
Eternity
Experience
Failure
Faith
Fear
Freedom/Liberation
Goal
God
God-reaslization/Self- realization
God's Will
Grace
Guru/Master/Teacher
Heaver & Hell
Illumination
India
Individuality
Initiation
Inner Peace
Japa
Joy/Ananda
Karma
Light
Loneliness
Love
Meditation
Mind
Nirvana
Patience
Perfection
Prayer
Precognition
Pride
Problems
Purity
Reincarnation
Religion
Renunciation
Religion
Renunciation
Saints
Samadhi
Service
Sex
Silence
Sin
Soul
Spirituality
Suffering
Suicide
Surrender
Thoughts
Vegetarianism
Words
Worry
Yoga
Selected List of Sri Chinmoy Centers
Selected List of Divine Enterprises of the Sri Chinmoy Centers