Author: Shri Purohit Swami
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 205
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129100819
Description
W B Yeats considered this autobiography of Shree Purohit Swami of comparable importance to Tagore’s Gitanjali. The book describes Shree Purohit Swami’s life and adventures. In fact, in his own words, it is about his concrete life, not an abstract philosophy.
The Swami is like a minstrel and story-teller. In his belief he can only offer to God the service learnt in service of man or woman. Shree Purohit Swami possessed heroic ecstatic passion prolonged through years, through many vicissitudes. In his description of his journey up seven thousand steps at Mount Girnar, Yeats claims one will find a philosophy that will satisfy the intellect and will be all one wants.
Contents
Introduction
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
Shri Purohit Swami