One cannot talk about God, Dr. Arya tells us; one can only be conscious of Him experientially. Everyone is looking for God: the alcoholic in his bottle, the child in his Superman comics, the artist in his work. The need to know God springs from our deepest nature. But most of us are not aware of this. And so, drawing upon his own rich background in the yoga-Vedanta tradition, the author tells us how this awareness can be developed in everyone (including atheists and agnostics).
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Pandit Usharbudh Arya was born in 1933 in Dehradun, India, in a Sanskrit speaking family. At the age of eleven he exponded the Vedas and Upanishads to crowds of thousands, and taught many learned people at that young age. Since then he has maintained worldwide spiritual missions, traveling continuously through many countries. Although he holds B.A. (London), M.A. (London), and D. Litt. (Holland) degrees and several academic honors, he has given himself to the task of teaching meditation and spiritual philosophies of life under the guidance of his Gurudev, H. H. Swami Rama of the Himalayas. Dr. Arya is also head of the Department of Philosophy of the Eastern Studies Program of the Himalayan Institute of the U.S.A. His main spiritual centers are the Center for Higher Consciousness, in Minneapolis, and his (Gurudev's) ashram in Rishikesh India.
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"Numerous are the names and various are the paths of one and the same reality. Some call it God, some call it truth, and some call it everlasting happiness. God, for me, is truth, and truth is that which exists in all times- the past, present and future. It is self- existent; it was never born, so it never dies. It is the fountainhead of light and love. Searching for God, without knowing the truth, is in vain, for God is the ultimate truth. A human being, through the highest of all living creatures, is still an unfinished being, longing for perfection, longing for a state of freedom from pains and miseries- and this leads him to seek the realization of truth. That truth is both within and without, so one can directly attain it by realizing the truth within himself. It is possible to do this. God will inspire seekers of enlightenment to find this ultimate reality." (from the Introduction by Swami Rama)
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