Author: Paul Brunton
Publisher: Srishti
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 318
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187075430
Description
A personal account of a best-selling author, who having established intimate contact with the Yogis and Fakirs of India, with vivid details of their teachings and astonishing feats.
Dr Paul Brunton's books are bestsellers in more than a dozen languages; this one, in English alone, has already been reprinted nineteen times in its hard-cover edition.
Born in London in 18987, he was educated at St. George's college and Mc. Kinely - - Roosvelt College, USA, where he was awarded a doctorate in philosophy. Early in life he became interested in the arts, literature, comparative religion, mysticism and philosophy. He traveled extensively in the orient, investigating the ideas and practices of Yogis, mystics and holy men, and lived among them in their monasteries, retracts and hermitages.
Indeed, very few people have ever provided themselves with the same magnificent opportunities for establishing intimate contact with the Yogis and Fakirs of India, and then been able to give such a vivid account of their teachings and astonishing feats.
Contents
CHAPTER I
Wherein I Bow to the Reader
CHAPTER II
A Prelude to the Quest
CHAPTER III
A Magician out of Egypt
CHAPTER IV
I Meet a Messiah
CHAPTER V
The Anchorite of the Adyar River
CHAPTER VI
The Yoga which Conquers Death
CHAPTER VII
The Sage who Never Speaks
CHAPTER VIII
With the Spiritual Head of South India
CHAPTER IX
The Hill of the Holy Beacon
CHAPTER X
Among the Magicians and Holy, Men
CHAPTER XI
The Wonder-worker of Benares
CHAPTER XII
Written in the Stars !
CHAPTER XIII
The Garden of the Lord
CHAPTER XIV
At the Parsee Messiah's Headquarters
CHAPTER XV
A Strange Encounter
CHAPTER XVI
In a Jungle Hermitage
CHAPTER XVII
Tables of Forgotten Truth