Publication
Imprint: Mumbai : Yogi Impressions, 2003. Edition: First edition. Responsibility: Ramesh S. Balsekar, edited by Susan Waterman. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 289 pages plus 11 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm. Features: Includes index.
Call number
GT-H-A / Balse
ISBN
8190105981 / 9788190105989
Original publication date
2003
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: Do you really know what you want most in life? Even if you have all the success, fame and money you want, and the good health to enjoy it - are you happy and fulfilled? Why is it that we all find ourselves seeking something more from life - all the time? Now, modern sage points out that each one of us, at some time or the other, has a taste of what that is: an uninterrupted experience of peace and harmony. He also shows how we can achieve this constant repose in our ordinary, hectic, daily living. This is what the seeking - most evidently, the spiritual seeking - is all about.
Thus, Ramesh Balsekar in his book 'Peace and Harmony in Daily Living' raises a very basic question: Why should anyone seek 'enlightenment' or 'Self-realization'?
A simple examination of one's personal experience will reveal that what usually disrupts the peace and harmony in life is a thought about something we think we - or someone else - should or shouldn't have done. Hence, a massive load of guilt and shame for oneself, or hatred and malice for the other, is perpetuated. Without a lot of arduous effort - work, discipline, sacrifice, sadhana - without outside assistance, but simply by investigating one's own experience, it is possible to get relief from this bondage. What mystics have said for ages, is here viewed from the perspective of modern living: that actions are 'happenings' and not something done by someone. This understanding is what actually contributes to and helps us in discovering the state of equanimity and peace which we most ardently seek. - from back cover
Table of Contents: Editor's note, introduction
Peace and harmony in daily living
Ego : the me-doer
The 'me' and the 'other' : the basic cause of problems
Thought and thinking
Volition and free will
Advaita : the teaching
The spiritual search
The understanding
What-is
Sheer joy of being
Self-realization in daily living
Advice from the Sage Mukundaraj
Conclusion
FY2003 /
Thus, Ramesh Balsekar in his book 'Peace and Harmony in Daily Living' raises a very basic question: Why should anyone seek 'enlightenment' or 'Self-realization'?
A simple examination of one's personal experience will reveal that what usually disrupts the peace and harmony in life is a thought about something we think we - or someone else - should or shouldn't have done. Hence, a massive load of guilt and shame for oneself, or hatred and malice for the other, is perpetuated. Without a lot of arduous effort - work, discipline, sacrifice, sadhana - without outside assistance, but simply by investigating one's own experience, it is possible to get relief from this bondage. What mystics have said for ages, is here viewed from the perspective of modern living: that actions are 'happenings' and not something done by someone. This understanding is what actually contributes to and helps us in discovering the state of equanimity and peace which we most ardently seek. - from back cover
Table of Contents: Editor's note, introduction
Peace and harmony in daily living
Ego : the me-doer
The 'me' and the 'other' : the basic cause of problems
Thought and thinking
Volition and free will
Advaita : the teaching
The spiritual search
The understanding
What-is
Sheer joy of being
Self-realization in daily living
Advice from the Sage Mukundaraj
Conclusion
FY2003 /
Physical description
289, 11 p.; 23 cm
Language
Original language
English