Sunday, April 5, 2009

Excerpt from "Straight From The Soul" book

STRAIGHT FROM THE SOUL

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Dedicated to Baba Hari Dass Ji
Sri Ram Ashram
Village Shayampur Kangr1,
Hardwar, India
http://www.mountmadonna.org/
http://hanumanfellowship.org/

Author
Anil Kumar Pant
B.E.(IIT-Roorkee)
M.B.A. (IMI, New Delhi)
Please send your feedback to : anilpant2005@gmail.com

INDEX
1. Preface 4
2. Scope of the book 6
3. Objective of the book 7
4. Why one must set out to seek 8
5. The Journey 9
6. Prerequisites 10
7. Need of a personal God 11
8. Need for a Mantra 12
9. Need for a living Spiritual Guru 13
10. Popular Beliefs about the soul 14
11. Assumptions in this book 15
12. Facts about the World and its objects 16
13. The process called “Meditation” 17
14. Direction of perception 18
15. The Four Methods for the inner journey 19
16. Method 1 – “LS ” 20
17. Method 2 – “TINI” 22
18. Method 3 – “MEDIC” 23
19. Method 4 – “ OPE” 24
20. What is Intuition ? 26
21. How to develop intuition? 27
22. What keeps us under illusion? 28
23. Ways to transcend causes of our illusion 29
24. Increased sensitivity and your perceptions 31
25. Attitude towards others 32
26. After Self Realization 33
27. Abut Baba Hari Dass ji 34
Acknowledgement 35
Recommended Books 36

PREFACE
I was a happy go lucky person just out of a premium engineering college and was selected by a multi-national organization during my final year.
Life was challenging and exciting. I was full of confidence and never ever thought about religion, God or soul.
My world revolved around friends, books, music, sports, holidays, eating, shopping, money, work and of course my career.
Suddenly my younger brother, only 18 years old, expired in a road accident and for the first time I came across untimely death, intolerable pain and extreme sorrow.
All my knowledge and understanding was useless and I felt helpless and further living and working looked useless.
All words and help from friends and relatives was of no use as I saw death as an inevitable and un-escapable event in my future life.
My parents were totally shattered and things were very gloomy and depressing.
Why our family ? Why my brother ? Why us ? Why me ? Is there a god controlling our lives? What is death ? What happens when one dies ? Is my brother still existing as a soul or has gone for forever ? These were the recurring questions I had and there were no answers.
I could not comprehend what the priest explained during the last rituals of my brother and thus the quest to know the truth started.
This quest with open mind led me to atheists, materialists, palmists, astrologers, tantriks, scholars, saints, gurus and study of astronomy, astrology, psychology & religious scriptures and simultaneous application of the instructions upon my own body-mind structure thereby gaining priceless insights.
There were many mile stones in the journey and the truth shone finally.
Let the truth be known to all is the only prayer and real work left for me now. This book is such an attempt in this direction.

Thanks & warm regards
Anil Kumar Pant

SCOPE OF THIS BOOK
To provide simple reasons, insights, tools, methods and techniques for investigation of soul, soul realization & thereafter.

OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK
To facilitate clarity of mind for the seekers and assist them in realizing their true existence as eternal soul.

(Soul, self, atma, atman, spirit and consciousness are synonyms and the experience of intuitively
knowing yourself as soul is known as Self realization, Self actualization, Atma Bodh, Moksha, Liberation, Mukti, Freedom, Atma Sakshatkar, Atma anubhuti, Nirvana, Final emanicipation )

WHY ONE MUST SET OUT TO SEEK
To understand yourself, your world and God.
To extricate your mind from its conditioning
To put an end to all confusion
To transcend death, pain and sorrow
To enter Peace
To enjoy Life and its offerings to the fullest
To enter Ananda (Bliss)
To become successful in outer and inner worlds

Purchase of this book will also help children of Sri Ram Orphanage in India as all proceeds from this book will go to them.

Thank you for your kindness

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