Author: Eknath Easwaran
Publisher: Jaico
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 227
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-7992-950-7
Description
In this collection of passages for meditation, Eknath Easwaran brings the wisdom of the world’s great saints and sages within our reach.
These are powerful, universal wisdom texts that inform and transform.
— Enjoy them for their poetic and intellectual appeal
— Or study them slowly, with concentration
— Or meditate on them, so that the words come to life in your thoughts and actions
The great saints and sages are the world’s spiritual geniuses – men and women such as the Compassionate Buddha, Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and the sages of the Upanishads. They come from different faiths, different times, but they all discovered the same changeless reality underlying the shifting world of sense experience. By reminding us of our essential goodness, they give us hope. Through the legacy of their words, they show us what it means to think in freedom, love fully, and see life as it really is. Easwaran chose texts that are positive, practical, and inspiring, that express the universal ideals of love, steadfastness, and wisdom. They can be read as holy words but also as the promptings of our true self, the core of goodness within us.
Read this book again and again – and let these saints and sages take you to the heartland of the spirit within.
Contents
Preface
IN THE COMPANY OF SAINTS & SAGES
Introduction
St. Francis of Assisi
THE PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS
Ishq Upanishad
THE INNER RULER
Lao Tzu
HOLDING TO THE CONSTANT
Abraham Isaac Kook
RADIANT IS THE WORLD SOUL
Hasan Kaimi Baba
THE PATH OF LOVE
St. Teresa of Avila
LET NOTHING UPSET YOU
The Buddha
TWIN VERSES
St. Symeon the New Theologian
I KNOW THAT HE REVEALS HIMSELF
Dov Baer of Mezhirech
CAST ASIDE WHAT LIMITS YOU
Bhagavad Gita
THE WAY OF LOVE
Gospel of St. Matthew
THE BEATITUDES
Kabir
THE UNSTRUCK BELLS AND DRUMS
Thomas a Kempis
THE WONDERFUL EFFECT OF DIVINE LOVE
Swami Omkar
PRAYER FOR PEACE
Rabi’s
DAWN PRAYER
Eleazar Azikri
BELOVED OF THE SOUL
Psalm
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD
The Buddha
DISCOURSE ON GOOD WILL
Ansari of Heart
INVOCATIONS
Bhagavad Gita
WHATEVER YOU DO
Bother Lawrence
PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF GOD
Shantideva
THE MIRACLE OF ILLUMINATION
Psalm
I AM THE ONE WHO WILL NEVER FORGET YOU
Sarada Devi
THE WHOLE WORLD IS YOUR OWN
St. Paul
EPISTLE ON LOVE
Bhagavad Gita
WHAT IS REAL NEVER CEASES
Lao Tzu
THE BEST
St. PATRICK
CHRIST BE WITH ME
Jewish Liturgy
SABBATH PRAYER
Thomas a Kempis
LORD THAT GIVETH STRENGTH
Mahmud Shabestari
THE MIRROR OF THIS WORLD
Katha Upanishad
PERENNIAL JOY
Solomon ibn Gabirol
THE LIVING GOD
St. Catherine of Genoa
A SEA OF PEACE
Chandogya Upanishad
YOU ARE THAT
The Buddha
CROSS THE RIVER BRAVELY
St. Francis de Sales
DO NOT LOOK WITH FEAR
Bhagavad Gita
LIVING IN WISDOM
Native American
GREAT LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT
Gospel of St. Matthew
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Mahatma Gandhi
THE PATH
Baba Kuhi of Shiraz
ONLY GOD I SAW
Psalm
LORD, THOU HAST SEARCHED ME
Chandogya Upanishad
THE CITY OF BRAHMAN
Lao Tzu
FINDING UNITY
Book of Common Prayer
I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE
The Qur’an
THE OPENING
Psalm 100
WORSHIP THE LORD IN GLADNESS
Rig Veda
UNITED IN HEART
Hazrat Inayat Gabirol
ADON OLAM
St. Therese of Lisieux
LIVING ON LOVE
Lao Tzu
MOTHER OF ALL THINGS
Katha Upanishad
THE RAZOR’S EDGE
St. Augustine
ENTERING INTO JOY
Hazrat Inayat Khan
PRAYER FOR PEACE
Psalm
LORD, YOU ARE MY GOD
Jalaluddin Rumi
A GARDEN BEYONF PARADISE
Gaelic Tradition
SILENCE
Fakhruddin Araqi
THE SHINING ESSENCE
Psalm
THE EARTH IS THE LORD’S
Bhagavad Gita
BE AWARE OF ME ALWAYS
Gospel of St. Matthew
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Hasan al-Basri
REMEMBRANCE OF GOD
Seng Ts’an
BELIEVING IN MIND
Bahya ibn Pakuda
DUTIES OF THE HEART
Isaiah
WHEN YOU CALL
Shvetashvatara Upanishad
THE ONE APPEARING AS MANY
Judah Halevy
INVOCATION
Gaelic Tradition
THIS MORNING I PRAY
Katha Upanishad
THE IMMORTAL
Kabir
THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD
Fakhraddin ar-Razi
REMEMBER ME THROUGH GRACE
Songs of Sri Ramakrishna
DWELL, O MIND, WITHIN YOURSELF
St. Clare of Assisi
THE MIRROR OF ETERNITY
Mishkat al-Masabih
I COME TO HIM RUNNING
The Buddha
THE SAINT
Meera
COME, BELOVED
THE PATH TO YOUR DWELLING
LIFE OF MY LIFE
Chief Yellow Lark
LET ME WALK IN BEAUTY
St. Teresa of Avila
HER HEART IS FULL OF JOY
Katha Upanishad
THE TREE OF ETERNITY
The Buddha
THE ISLAND
Bhagavad Gita
ALL PATHS LEAD TO ME
Torah
THE SHEMA
Abu Sa’id
IF YOU WANT TO DRAW NEAR TO GOD
Mechthild of Magdeburg
LORD, I BRING THEE MY TREASURE
Kabir
SIMPLE UNION
Tukaram
THINK ON HIS NAME
Jewish Liturgy
EVENGING PRAYER FOR THE SABBATH
Kabir
THE RIVER OF LOVE
Thomas a Kempis
FOUR THINGS THAT BRING MUCH INWARD PEACE
Guru Nanak
THERE IS BUT ONE GOD
St. Teresa of Avila
I GAVE ALL MY HEART
Rabi ‘a
NIGHT PRAYER
Rig Veda
GOD MAKES THE RIVERS TO FLOW
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
THAT WONDROUS STAR
Meera
SINGING YOUR NAME
Jewish Liturgy
MOURNER’S KADDISH
Kabir
WEAVING YOUR NAME
THE FRUIT OF THE TREE
Ravidas
GRIEVE NOT
Glossary of Names & Terms
Acknowledgments
Index by Author & Source
Index by Title & First Line