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Title: Living With the Himalayan Masters by Swami Rama, Pandit Rajmani Tiguanait ISBN: 0-89389-156-8 Publisher: Himalayan Institute Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Short Biographical Sketches, Haunting and Eternal
Comment: I just love this book. It consists of a collection of short "essays", autobiographical, and philosophical, about the author's life growing up in the Himilayas.
Much of Swami Rama's life seems biblical in it spiritual "magic"--it displays similar themes and miracles that you find in the New Testament. For instance, his father's guru predicted that he and his wife--although he was over 60, and she over 40--would have a son who would follow the father's master. The parents, childless for years, declare that this would be a miracle, but that if it happens, the child is his. 18 months later, they have a child, the Swami. When is three, the Master returns and initiates him by whispering a mantra in his ear.
When the Swami is still young, his parents die, and the master comes for him, and they travel together. Often, the master sends his disciple off to study with another guru for a period of time, but throughout his training into his adulthood, the master is, so to speak, the point around which the Swami Rama orbits in his spiritual peregrinations.
He describes many miracles. We witness a resurrection, a miraculous feeding of the poor, and other bizarre, often familiar, miracles. India seems like a land of magic.
Is all this b.s.? Who knows. One thing is certain...the Swami Rama is not self-promoting in this book. He doesn't present himself, for instance, as the performer of miracles. But he does witness them, and is on at least on occasion the recipient of one.
In any case, this book is a good read--simple, wise, and entertaining. I can't recommend it enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: Feast on a book about fasting.
Comment: A series of amazing short anecdotes served by the bumbling but blessed yogi. You will really enjoy the account of the valley of flowers where all sense of time vanishes, drowned in the hypnotic scent of rhododenrons. This book does not skirt self consciously around the unbelievable. It lays it all on the table.
This is one of the few books I have read which is willing to discuss the concept of ending life consciously by yogic means. It gives descriptions of the different ways this can be done. Of course it does not give instuctions on how to do it, which would be dangerous, but it does give the idea that control over the process of death is possible, if you are willing to put in the effort and study required. You can read the sections out of order and it still makes sense. This sort of format is good if you are like me and find it hard to put a book down once you start it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Swami Rama's early years
Comment: Swami Rama is one of the overlooked great figures of our time. For twenty years I had the privledge of being one of his students. His indepth understanding of the human condition, his selfless service and his profound attainment of states higher consciousness was a wonder to behold. In this autobiography he relates in a humble way his encounters with his early teachers. Since he was raised in a cave monestary from the age of four his life was very different from our modern way of developing as a person. While some of the stories stretch our credability they all actually happened. I realize that many people have difficulty accepting other peoples experience, especially if it outside the range of their own limited life experience and challange our own fixed ideas. Swami Rama definitely challanges us about how the world is, in a very real way, but I find that challange refreshing and inspiring. His core experience, that the goal of human life is spiritual attainment and Self realization pulls us out of our small limited view of the world. It is one of the great spiritual classics. If I was stranded on a desert island with only three books this would be one of them.
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Title: Meditation and Its Practice by Swami Rama, Swami Rama ISBN: 0893891533 Publisher: Himalayan Institute Press Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: THE ROYAL PATH: PRACTICAL LESSONS ON YOGA by Swami Rama, Swami Rama ISBN: 0893891525 Publisher: Himalayan Institute Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Path of Fire and Light: Advanced Practices of Yoga by Swami Rama ISBN: 0893890979 Publisher: Himalayan Institute Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Art of Joyful Living: Meditation and Daily Life by Swami Rama, Swami Rama, Kay Gendron ISBN: 0893891177 Publisher: Himalayan Institute Press Pub. Date: November, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, W. Y. Evans-Wentz ISBN: 0876120796 Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers Pub. Date: June, 1979 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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