The Autobiography of an Indian Monk

The Autobiography of an Indian Monk

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Author: Purohit Swami
W B Yeast/
Editor(s): Vinod Sena
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 160
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8121501024

Description

Shri Purohit Swami was of the line of Swami Vivekananda, Swami Ramatirtha and Shri Aurobindo, and was true son of the Indian Renascence. This account of his own life, written in 1932 and published in India now for the first time, represents the first autobiography (in the modern sense of the word) of a yogi.

Purohit Swami’s account of his own life moves rapidly, covers a get variety of material, is unsentimental, and is at once eminently readable and inspiring. It adds up to a powerful testament of the truth of yoga, and whoever follows it is not likely to think of the life of a sannyasin as one of escape.

An Indian Monk cuts across divisions of taste and may be read and enjoyed at many levels. It provides a vivid record of a form of society fast disappearing from our midst. It may be read as a book of the supernatural and is full of stories of miracles. It is also a narrative of adventure which grips us as we move from episode to episode. But it is written, above all, for the spiritual seeker for whom it will prove a veritable treasure-house of Knowledge and wisdom

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

SHRI PUROHIT SWAMI received his education at Morris college, Nagpur; Deccan College, Pune, and at Bombay University. He had a flair for learning languages and showed great promise as a writer of Marathi. He was also a fervent nationalist, and his defence of Tilak was proscribed by the British Government. After becoming a sannyasin, he went to the West in 1930 to interpret India’s ancient wisdom to the world at large.

W B YEATS famous Irish poet, playwright and critic, won the Nobel Prize in 1923. Through Theosophy he became acquainted with Eastern mysticism in early youth and came to believe in rebirth and in a cyclic view of time. His friendship with Purohit Swami helped eats to gain a deep knowledge of Indian thought during the last phase of his life.

VINOD SENA is Professor of English at the University of Delhi. He holds doctorates from the University of Delhi and Cambridge. He has also been awarded a National Fellowship by University Grants Commission.

Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

AUTHOR’S PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

LIFE AND WORKS OF SHRI PUROHIT SWAMI

CHAPTER I
How The Soil had been Prepared

CHAPTER II
Grandmother and Nursing Mothers

CHAPTER III
I am not to be a Landlord

CHAPTER IV
You are a Brahmin; Be a Brahmin always!

CHAPTER V
Mahatma s and the Divine Master in a Cobra

CHAPTER VI
The Philosophy of Riches

CHAPTER VII
The Great Yogic Powers

CHAPTER VIII
The Astrologer’s Prediction

CHAPTER IX
The Engine Refuses to Move

CHAPTER X
May Shri Gurudeo Bless You!

CHAPTER XI
Come to Me!

CHAPTER XII
Practice Penance

CHAPTER XIII
God and Mammon

CHAPTER XIV
The God’s Bed

CHAPTER XV
Mysticism is not Mystery, It is Mystery Unveiled

CHAPTER XVI
Religion Versus Spirituality

CHAPTER XVII
The Kundalini

CHAPTER XVIII
Truth Knows no Defence

CHAPTER XIX
My Master

CHAPTER XX
Samadhi

CHAPTER XXI
The Touchstone

CHAPTER XXII
For My Sake

CHAPTER XXIII
The Ordeal of Service

CHAPTER XXIV
Go Back, My Child

CHAPTER XXV
I Know Him Too Well!

CHAPTER XXVI
The Begging-Bowl

CHAPTER XXVII
I am Dattatreya

CHAPTER XXVIII
Another Temptation

CHAPTER XXIX
My Lord Shrikrishna

CHAPTER XXX
A New Lease of Life

CHAPTER XXXI
The Dream of the Himalayas

CHAPTER XXXII
Who Showed Me the Way?

CHAPTER XXXIII
The Mandate

CHAPTER XXXIV
Out at Last!

CHAPTER XXXV
The Assassin’s Dagger

CHAPTER XXXVI
I am Brahma!

EPILOGUE

PRAYER

INDEX