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Book Review |
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Four Gatekeepers at the Palace of Liberation |
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This booklet by Swami Jyotirmayananda is dedicated to Pandit Bhairo Persaud whose quest for knowledge and commitment to Sanatana Dharma has been and continues to be an inspiration to the hearts he touched while he graced this earth. |
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Pandit Bhairo Persaud was a Sanskrit scholar and his life was influenced by the teachings of Swami Sivananda of the Divine Life Society, Rishikesh, India. In later years he was blessed to have received personal guidance from Swami Sivananda’s disciple, Swami Jyotirmayananda. |
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The perennial search for happiness continues in spite of the rapid technological advances of the latter half of the 20th century. Improvements in the standards of living worldwide have not produced the results anticipated by those championing the cause of materialism. Although materialism has no doubt contributed significantly to man’s worldly comforts it addresses only his physical needs. Being a highly developed psychological being, man needs emotional satisfaction. Being highly intellectual, he is restless and impatient with perfection. Most importantly because he is a spiritual being, he yearns for fullness, the peace that comes from enjoying a state of equilibrium or rest. The downside of materialism is that it burdens man with endless anxiety and an insatiable desire to possess more and more to acquire to aggrandise and to live in slavish attachments. |
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© "Dilip" (October/December, 2004) published by Sudakshina Trust (Regd.) Mumbai. |
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