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