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The Mantram Handbook

A Practical Guide to Choosing Your Mantram and Calming Your Mind

Author: Eknath Easwaran   Series: Essential Easwaran Library

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The mantram, or mantra, is a short, powerful spiritual formula from the world's major traditions. Repetition of the mantram is a simple but highly effective spiritual practice that can be used at work and at home, fitting naturally within any faith, philosophy, or lifestyle. This is a guide to calming the mind with a mantram.

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The mantram, or mantra, is a short, powerful spiritual formula from the world's major traditions. Repetition of the mantram is a simple but highly effective spiritual practice that can be used at work and at home, fitting naturally within any faith, philosophy, or lifestyle. This is a guide to calming the mind with a mantram.

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Use your mantram when you're ill or anxious, tired or restless, and it will guide you and comfort you like a true friend.

The Mantram, or mantra, is a short, powerful, spiritual formula from the world's great traditions, repeated silently in the mind, anytime, anywhere. Easwaran, the author of Passage Meditation and the best-selling translations The Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads, and The Dhammapada, taught the use of the mantram for forty years as part of his passage meditation program.

The mantram can help you to steady your mind and free it from anxiety, anger or resentment. Easwaran explains how the mantram works, and gives practical guidelines for using it to focus your thoughts and access deeper resources of strength, patience, and love.

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Critic Reviews

"An excellent book! . . . a splendid explanation of howmantrams work, how to choose one, and above all, how to work on oneself ingeneral.” — Journal of Transpersonal Psychology


“A brilliant and inspiring book. As study of the mantram, orPrayer-word . . . this book is unparalleled.” — B. C. Catholic


“This clearly written little book is very pleasing. It ishelpful in an academic sense because it gives precise, clear information aboutthe power, uses, and variety of mantrams. It is helpful in a practical sensebecause it gives detailed instructions in choosing and using the mantram forpsychological, spiritual, and intellectual development. . . . Eawaran's book is to be recommended in the highest terms.” — Choice

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About the Author

Eknath Easwaran (1910-1999) was a well-respected spiritual guide, and his bestselling book Passage Meditation has sold 195,000 copies since 1978. His 26 books on spiritual living have been translated into 26 languages, and his editions of the Indian Classics have regularly been bestsellers. Easwaran was a professor of English literature and well known in India as a writer and speaker before coming to the United States in 1959 on the Fulbright exchange program. In 1961 he founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, which carries on his work today through publications and retreats.

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Use your mantram when you're ill or anxious, tired or restless, and it will guide you and comfort you like a true friend. The Mantram, or mantra, is a short, powerful, spiritual formula from the world's great traditions, repeated silently in the mind, anytime, anywhere. Easwaran, the author of Passage Meditation and the best-selling translations of The Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads and The Dhammapada , taught the use of the mantram for forty years as part of his passage meditation program. The mantram can help you to steady your mind and free it from anxiety, anger or resentment. Easwaran explains how the mantram works, and gives practical guidelines for using it to focus your thoughts and access deeper resources of strength, patience, and love.

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Product Details

Publisher
Nilgiri Press
Published
12th February 2009
Edition
0005th
Pages
224
ISBN
9781586380281

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