Author: Edavana Damodaran
Publisher: Sahayog Publications
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 392
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8190078038
Description
Due to progressive development of several systems of thought man is not able to discern his path traditionally pebbled by many stones of different hues and colors. This thoughtful book of personal reflections tells you everything you wanted to know about your environment, body, mind and spirit.
Man is an individual in his being, becoming, and vasishing. At the same time, he is also a spark of the Universal. Born in a social environment, man acquires his identifications from his environment. His physical, physiological, and psychological developments are due to his living as a member of his society. Society has been in existence from time immemorial.
The crux of the problem is how to help man to stand on his own legs as an individual and free him from the fetters of his environment so that he lives his life in originality, creativity, sensitive, and beauty and attains peace and tranquility - the essential characteristics of a happy living - within and without, here and now, not in a dead past, or a yet to be born future but in a living present that regenerates every moment and runs in eternity.
PRAISE FOR AUTHOR'S EARLIER WORKS:
The conclusion thus reached is that man’s Individual Self expands itself and embraces the Universal Self. This, the author identifies with the teaching of Vedanta that Atman and Brahman are one and the same, that Atman is the whole of Brahman and not a part thereof.
-Dr T M P Mahadevan
It is perhaps the predominantly scientific mind of the author that has enabled him to establish convincingly the thesis that man is a product of his environment.
-Prof Joseph Mundassery
Very stimulating…The author has deep thought and no stagnation, and that makes for that rare quality-originality.
–John Spiers
Rarely do we come across a book where the author expresses himself with such force and honest imagination.
-Fred Haas
The author underlines the main point of his thesis that the Self within is the basic reality.
-M P Pandit
No other history book has ever touched the spirit of India as The Story of India.
-Prof J V Naik
He has given much food for thought to those who wish to think deep upon the secrets of life.
-Dr Gauri Lad
I am greatly impressed by the tremendous width of the knowledge and deep scholarship of the author.
-Dr Karan Singh
A work apart which looks at Indian and other civilizations from an Indian point of view. And that makes all the difference.
-M V Kamath
A balanced and judicious distillation of historical knowledge. We have here only wisdom and clarity that is characteristic of open minds.
-Prof K S Ramakrishna Rao
Sri Edavana Damodaran has succeeded in bringing out the essentials of Sanatana Dharma as the spiritual constitution for the entire evolving world.
- Dr V Manmohan Reddy
Contents
PREFACE
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS
The Universal Mind
Beginning Of time
Evolution of Man
Neolithic Civilizations
Sanskritic Refinements
Common Heritage
INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Challenge of Change
Motion, Emotion, Feeling And Thought
Percept, Recept and Concept
Conscious Mind
Subconscious And The Unconscious
Self-knowledge
SELF AND THE ABSOLUTE
Discrimination
Action
Faith
Systems And Identifications
Sex, Marriage And Family
Suggestion and Autosuggestion
Visualization
Soul And Self-control
The Mother energy
Prayer and Worship
Meditation
Self-realization
HUMAN DESTINY
Wisdom And Happiness
Faith and Reason
Human Destiny
INDEX