The One Minute Guide to Prosperity and Enlightenment [Paperback]

Dattatreya Siva Baba (Author), Vaaak Sounds (Editor, Illustrator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0972425403 | ISBN-13: 978-0972425407 | Publication Date: November 1, 2002 | Edition: 1st

Do You Want to Live an Outrageously Wonderful Life?

The One Minute Guide to Prosperity and Enlightenment is a groundbreaking book, offering secret, easy-to-use techniques to help you attract health, wealth, love and happiness. Sri Siva, the spiritual teacher of the best-selling author Wayne Dyer, has written this book to help you live the life of your dreams. It reveals hidden teachings that have never been widely taught to people. Sri Siva, a member of the Tamil Siddha enlightenment lineage, has been given permission from his tradition to share this knowledge openly for the first time.

This book is ideal for busy people who do not have the time to spend hours in meditation or practicing complex spiritual techniques. Based on his personal experience in guiding countless people to miraculous manifestations, this book contains Sri Siva's most potent secrets for transformation. His goal is to help people lead an "outrageously wonderful life filled with abundance and new and expansive opportunities."

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

You are very fortunate to be living at this time in history. We are on the threshold of earth’s Golden Age, and everything is going to change for the better.

I want you to attain your optimal financial potential. I want you to get everything you desire. The techniques and tools in this book will help you to create and maintain attitudes and behaviors that support and encourage a fully rounded material and spiritual consciousness. To step out of your old life and into a new life, you need Divine energy through the use of spiritual tools.

Divine help is here right now to bring you Divine awareness and create a new destiny. Ritual and practice are more important than theory. They are the keys to the manifestation of the change you desire in your life.

You are reading this book because you have been led by God to know these teachings. Approach these teachings with an open mind, and just give the techniques a try.

The techniques in this book are for spiritual seekers of all faiths. I want to make these tools available to everyone, regardless of their faith. The true Universal Religion is the religion of love, and Enlightenment brings with it compassionate love for all of humanity.

I have loved everyone invariably. Love is a necessity for me. I have loved people who judged, despised, doubted, and hated me. I have known many people who tell me, "We have the notoriety and money. Sri Siva hasn’t even made the substantial money and notoriety that we have made."

I am here not to make substantial money and have notoriety. I am here to remove the ignorance of people. Money can’t give you "samadhi" (a transcendent state of consciousness) or cure your failing kidney or liver. I am here to put money in the hands of the spiritual people who weep and cry for the hungry billions. If I have to make a choice between a beach home, or the heart of a hungry soul, I will choose the latter.

Om Nama Shivaya

Sri Siva

About the Author

Dattatreya Siva Baba (formerly known as Sri Siva) is a spiritual name given to Dr. Baskaran Pillai. Dattatreya Siva Baba is the first master from his tradition (Tamil Siddhas) to carry these secret teachings to people of the West. Concurrent with his mystic practices, he continued higher education within the university system and became a Research Fellow at the University of Madurai in India. His formal academic training in India resulted in a Master's Degree in English literature and a Master of Letters in Comparative literature from the University of Madurai, India. In 1983, he came to America for graduate studies completing a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. A practical guru for the 21st century, Dattatreya Siva Baba has lived in the West for the past 20 years and has observed the frustration and confusion of modern society. Drawing on secret teachings, he created a book with practical tools so people could achieve measurable results in every aspect of life. Prosperity and Enlightenment should go hand in hand. Dattatreya Siva Baba created Tripura Foundation with the intention of eliminating hunger from the face of the world. A large portion of the profits from his various ventures go toward supporting the Hunger Project. Dattatreya Siva Baba's book is "dedicated with tears to the hungry people who end their earthly sojourn every day with parched tongues and empty stomachs." In addition to Dattatreya Siva Baba's desire to end desperate hunger cycles, he teaches methods to change ordinary lives into extraordinary lives.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Vaaak Sounds Inc; 1st edition (November 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972425403
• ISBN-13: 978-0972425407
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #153,267 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars it works if you treat the teachings with respect, June 28, 2005

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This review is from: The One Minute Guide to Prosperity and Enlightenment (Paperback)

I haven't studied closely with Sri Siva (now known as Siva Baba) yet, but I have read this book and applied some of the techniques taught in it, and in addition have participated in the Chicago Siva Baba study group, have attended a number of Siva Baba's public events, and have attended two private events with Siva Baba. I haven't been to India yet--which is a pilgrimage most of Siva Baba's closer students make--yet I can say that the techniques taught in this book, and elsewhere in Siva Baba's teachings, do work but they need to be treated with some respect. I have gotten results--in some cases, amazing results--applying the techniques in this book. Often I do the meditations while in the shower--even a brief meditation will be amazingly effective.

What Siva Baba is essentially recommending is that spiritual people be a bit more focused on the material aspects of life--that they be specific about their material goals and practise mantras to manifest those material goals. Prior to meeting Siva Baba, I studied with another teacher who had a similar message about spiritual people increasing their focus on material matters. It is a message to which spiritual folks are sometimes somewhat resistant. They sometimes take the view that God will provide everything that one needs, so there is no need for the spiritual aspirant to focus on material things.

Siva Baba, I think, would take a somewhat different view of things. Yes, ultimately God will provide us with what we need and we need to have trust in God. Yet it helps to take a somewhat more proactive view of things. We are spiritual beings and yet we have physical bodies. As long as we are in our physical bodies, we need to look honestly at what we need physically in our lives in order to achieve our maximum potential. It is all well and good to believe in helping others, but if our own lives are a mess, how much help can we really be to others? Will driving a better car, for example, help to create a better image that will allow us to be more successful in our lives? Will having a higher income allow us to pay off debts, reduce the stress in our lives, and make us simply more pleasant people to be around?

These are questions that Siva Baba encourages us to tackle in an honest and extremely practical manner. It is really basically just about setting goals--nothing more to it than that. Once we've decided what we need physically in life, Siva Baba then provides the mantras for doing the manifestation. At that point, we let God take over and help us in whatever way God chooses to do. In a sense, Siva Baba is encouraging us to become active partners with God in charting the course for our lives. We are certainly, to put it mildly, the junior partner in this relationship--but by taking an active role in the process, we will find it easier to access God's grace--it is the old adage, basically, of God helping those who help themselves.

My experience is that these techniques work--as long as we approach these teachings with respect. If we are disrespectful, cynical, or ridiculing of the approach of Siva Baba (or any spiritual teacher), we will generally not see any results. I strongly encourage people to give these techniques a really honest try.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I tried the techniques; they worked for me, December 20, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The One Minute Guide to Prosperity and Enlightenment (Paperback)

My friend recommended the book, so I got it.
I gave the techniques and mantras an honest try
and was pretty surprised when I started seeing
changes and opportunities come my way.
I think it's hard to see cause and effect, but
from following the techniques in the "One Minute Guide"
I now have a job after being unemployed for 8 months.
Om Nama Sivaya! I recommend just giving it an honest try.

38 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you Sri Siva!, May 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The One Minute Guide to Prosperity and Enlightenment (Paperback)

This is my first review. I recently purchased this book in early April, and yesterday I manifested a job that DOUBLES my present income! The best part was, it was easy, just one phone call, and my life is about to change for the better. I have read all of the testimonials here, and in Sri Siva's book, but I didn't really think I would join those who have doubled their incomes. That's not all that happened to me this week. I had misplaced my DD214 (military separation form), and could not get an approx. $300 military discount for nursing school without it. I searched the house, for at least a month, without avail. Plus, I was having difficulty getting correct information from the V.A. in how to get my form certified. Thursday morning at 3 a.m., I woke up from a sound sleep with a solution to another problem which had been troubling me. In finding those papers I came upon my DD214, and found a phone # to the local Chancery Clerk's office. Something told me to call the Clerk's office, and I called later that day. The result of that call is I now have several certified copies of my form, all done for free; and my dream of pursuing R.N. school, with a discount to boot, has quickly become a reality! This book is small, but power-packed. Everything you need to change your life for the better is contained in here. Sri Siva is a guru who delivers! My search for a truly enlightened teacher has ended. The title of the book doesn't lie...prosperity AND enlightenment...it's all up to you. Remove the negativity from your life, change your Karma...buy this book! Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Sri Siva! Thank you Amazon.com for providing the link to this wonderful man!