A young girl asked Swami Chinmayananda Whatever you teach is there in the books. What do I need a Guru For? His instant answer was Why don’t you ask this question to the books.
Such quick witted remarks of Swami Chinmayananda have been collected and placed into 54 photographs in a comic format. Each photograph carries a commentary in Swamiji’s own words, explaining the topic of the photograph.
Some of the topic discussed are:
- Types of Love
- How to mend a broken heart
- Confidence
- Striving for Excellence
- The Law of Karma
- Reincarnation
- When did creation start?
- Spirit and Matter
- Good Health.
This is an introductory book to Vedanta, something that can be gifted to the youth to help them meet life’s challenges. Swami Chinmayananda, one of the world’s greatest exponents of Vedanta, the science of life that underlies all faiths, authored more than 40 books and commentaries. His commentary on the Bhagawad Geeta is acknowledged as one of the best ever written in English.
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Religion-Its utility
- The Purpose of Life
- Demystifying God
- Is seeing believing?
- The need for a Guru
- The Goal
- Striving for Excellence
- Drowned-coated, booted, suited!
- The Vedantic Method
- Gradual Steps
- The Human Personality
- Innate Psychological Tendencies
- Crash Course in Spirituality
- U turn!
- The Bhagwad Geeta-not outdated!
- The Fit Ones
- The Law of Karma
- Reincarnation
- When did creation start?...Why did God create?
- Incarnations of the Lord
- Man of God Realization
- Earn-Enjoy-Save
- Spirit and Mater
- Types of Love
- How to mend a Broken Heart
- The Slippery Fall!
- Divorce from Sorrow
- The Power of Prayer
- Stay where you are put
- The Optimist and the Pessimist
- Confidence
- Good Health
- Service
- The Gift of Time
- The False Glitter
- Meet the Challenge
- Cultured Living ~ its technique
- Spiritual Ladder
- Change of Vision
- Faith
- The Grace of a Teacher
- The Legacy
- Reverence
- Mystical Literature
- The Ego
- Alone but not Lonely
- Meditation
- The Unborn, the Undying
- The Supreme Brahman
- Mind the Gap
- Who realizes the Truth?
- At the Portal of Truth
- Youth-Your Future!
- Gratitude.
About the Author:
H.H. Swami Chinmayananda is a world renowned authority of the scriptures of India, especially Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads. He was born in 1916 and attained mahasamadhi in 1993. He worked relentlessly for about 40 years to bring about spiritual revival in India and abroad. His unique style and logical approach is appealing to all young and old.
His was the life of selfless service to others. He is the author of more than thirty books - each one is a masterpiece, dealing with the philosophical principles behind the religion. He made mysterious and elusive vedantic principles easily understandable for common people. He is the founder of Chinmaya Mission, through which the work that he initiated and was so dear to him, is carried out in the form of spreading the message of vedanta, overseeing numerous cultural, educational and social service activities. A biography of this great spiritual master, entitled Journey of a Master: Swami Chinmayananda, is available through Chinmaya Publications.
Swami Chinmayananda was selected by the Hindu Host Committee to be the President of Hindu Religion, representing Hinduism worldwide at the Meeting of the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago (during August 28 - September 4, 1993), an honor bestowed on the great Swami Vivekananda a century ago. The Parliament had selected fourteen eminent religious leaders around the world to form a council to guide the world into the next century. At "World Vision 2000," a conference of religious leaders sponsored by Hindu Vishwa Parishad during August 6-8, 1993, H.H. Swami Chinmayanandji was to be honored for his lifetime of selfless service to humanity and his extraordinary achievements in creating a renaissance of spiritual and cultural values in India and abroad. However, on August 3, 1993, Swami Chinmayanandji attained Mahasamadhi in SanDiego, California, after suffering a massive heart attack as the equipment became too worn out due to the ceaseless Seva of the Master to humanity for over 42 years.
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