Showing Books By Author : Eknath Easwaran

The Upanishads

The book The Upanishads is an translation of the old age Hindu religious texts and is meant for anyone exploring consciousness and spirituality. Thousands of years ago, Indian sages found the answers for some of the eternal questions of human mind, which they have passed on to the future generations through the books of Upanishads. Upanishads are guides for human beings and are said to have answers to all the questions that people have pertaining to the realization of one's own self. These books still have relevance to the modern world. The author in this book has extracted some of the important concepts from the Upanishads and has made an attempt to introduce the readers to some spiritual aspects such as consciousness, self, death, knowledge, wisdom and joy in a detailed manner. The author's explanation of the concepts in his own language of wisdom and the way he connects the texts to the world of today's advanced science and technology make the book a lucid, relevant read. Though the original text of Upanishads are voluminous with complicated language, the author has tried to condense and simplify the major teachings of the book and has presented them in a readable manner. The author Eknath Easwaran has successfully managed to present the discoveries of the sages of the Upanishads in a concise style in his book. This first edition of the book was published by Jaico Publishing House in 2009. It is available in paperback.

Gandhi the Man .

The Story of a Great Soul, the Power of Nonviolence. Gandhi's face is instantly recognizable. But who was he? How did this young lawyer transform into the 'great soul' who led 400 million Indians in their nonviolent struggle for independence? Easwaran, who grew up in Gandhi's India, offers answers which are important both historically and personally. He gives a moving account of the turning points and choices in Gandhi's life that made him not just a great political leader but also a timeless icon of nonviolence. Gandhi's inner transformation, the essence of this biography, contains an urgent message for us today. Non-violence, Easwaran explains, is a practical method for resolving problems, healing relationships and raising the quality of our lives. It is a skill that is essential for the evolution and perhaps even the survival, of our civilization.

Meditation..

Bringing the deep wisdom of the heart into your daily life. Meditation is a systematic technique for training the mind, especially attention and the will, so that we can set forth from the surface level of consciousness and journey into the very depths. With meditation you train your attention, drawing together the scattered threads of what you think, say and do. The Principle of Meditation is simple: You are what you think. By meditating regularly, you find yourself becoming wiser, kinder, with greater sense of purpose and connection to others. This book is a complete guide to a program of meditation developed by Eknath Easwaran. Universal and dogma-free, meditation fits within any religious practice or nonreligious philosophy, it is used by counselors and yoga teachers, as well as health and education professionals. Eknath Easwaran taught meditation to thousands of people for over 40 years, including a course at the University of California. Thoroughly tested, consistent and clear, the instructions in this book are all you need to start meditating. With Easwaran's help, choose words or passages that appeal to you, from one spiritual tradition or many, poetic or intellectual, lofty and inspiring or warmly practical. Keep meditating and your words or passages will become lifelines, taking you to the source of wisdom deep within and then guiding you through the challenges of daily life.

Living Thoughts of Great People

This daily reader introduces you to all the important concepts and techniques of leading a spiritual life in today’s world. The insights given here are stated in simple words and stresses Easwaran’s eight point program for meditation and spiritual living.

Your Life Is Your Message

Eknath Easwaran has healed thousands of people by teaching them how to live at peace with themselves and their world. Your Life Is Your Message is his seminal work, offering a vision of personal growth that brings together the quest for inner fulfillment, the desire to contribute to the world, and the need to enrich personal relationships. By showing us how interconnected these three are, Easwaran persuades us that making small daily changes in the way we think and live can change the world around us. Practical and inspirational, humorous and profound, Your Life Is Your Message shows readers they can be more loving, more focused, more capable of living out their ideals by providing a set of practical spiritual disciplines to bring about these changes. It is a book that will transform the lives of all who read it.

Sacred Literature Of The World

This book is a short, positive, practical selections from the world’s great scriptures and mystics – Christian, Jewish, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslim, Native American chosen by one of the most respected teachers of meditation in the world today. Brief instructions on how to use these powerful selections in meditation are included. The slow, sustained concentration on these passages, “Eknath Easwaran writes,” drives them deep into our minds. And whatever we drive deep into consciousness that we become.

Strength In The Storm

Big or small, global or personal, stress and challenges are woven into the fabric of our days. Life takes us by surprise, pushing us to the limit and beyond. Stress has become a chronic interference that affects us all, sometimes with devastating results. When a crisis comes we’re under stress already, simply from the load we carry in our daily lives: family responsibilities, tense relationships, money worries, work pressures, and those incessant, nagging fears about the state of our neighborhoods, our schools, the threat of terrorism, a world at war. For anyone struggling in today’s anxious world, Easwaran delivers time-tested, practical skills to reduce frustration, anger, and stress. In Strength In The Storm, Easwaran points out that we can’t control the weather outside, but we can control how we respond. By training our minds we can learn to — Cope more effectively with the irritations of everyday life — Be at our best under stressful, confrontational, and challenging situations — Recover more quickly from major stressful incidents — Improve relationships and become more patient

Meditation

The principle of meditation is simple: You are what you think. By meditating on words that embody your highest ideals, you drive them deep into your consciousness. There they take root and begin to create wonderful changes in your life – changes you have wanted to make, but have not known how to bring about. This book is a complete guide to a program of meditation that fits naturally into your life – even complementing an active religious practice. Eknath Easwaran taught meditation and its application to daily life for more than 30 years.

Timeless Wisdom

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.

Gandhi the Man

Gandhi's life is inspiring and baffling to modern readers. How did an ineffective young lawyer become the Mahatma, who led 400 million Indians in their nonviolent struggle for independence? How did he endure the terrible hardships joyfully and with love for all? What is nonviolence and how does it work? This work offers answers to these questions.

The Two Gandhis

When Mahatma Gandhi roused millions in a peaceful revolution against colonial rule, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan seemed an unlikely man to enlist. Yet from the ruthless Pathan tradition in Indian’s rugged North-West Frontier Province, Khan raised history’s first nonviolent “army” of 100,00 men. Many cautioned Gandhi against involving in his nonviolent struggle these people with such a record of brutality. But under Khan’s leadership the Pathans proved that it is often those who are capable of great violence who have the courage to stand unarmed against injustice.

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Discovering Your Hidden Spiritual Resources

Goodness has no need to enter the soul," wrote a fourteenth-century Christian mystic. "It is there already, simply unperceived. "Discovering Your Hidden Spiritual Resources" is Eknath Easwaran's phrase for the spark of divinity hidden in every one of us, regardless of our personal liabilities or past mistakes. And is Discovering Your Hidden Spiritual Resources he shows this spark of divinity can energize our lives. Love, compassion, meaning, hope, and freedom from fear are not qualities we need to acquire, Easwaran points out. We simply need to uncover what we already have. And in this book he shows us how. He begins with instructions in a simple method of meditation that he himself has taught and practiced for more than thirty years. - a method that gradually removes the conditioning which hides our native goodness. The following chapters each take a theme from the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount. Easwaran ties these themes to specific strategies for putting meditation to work Christian mystics - among them Meister Eckhart, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Terasa of Avila, and John Ruysbroeck. Discovering Your Hidden Spiritual Resources will appeal to people who want to learn how to meditate but seek a method that fits comfortably within the Christian tradition. It is full of helpful suggestions for making spiritual ideals a practical part of daily life.