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Papaji Amazing Grace

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This book is an immersing collection of biographies of people drawn to the spiritual search, especially for the reader who feels a spiritual pull of any kind.
Through the interviews you can really see the progression of these people as they move through the world, with events happening outside of their control that lead them into powerful situations and meetings with powerful people.

Though the book focuses on the presence of Papaji and the influence of him into the interviewees' lives, it wonderfully maps the entire process of the so called 'spiritual search', and really gives support for anyone who feels doubt about their own path, and how difficult it can be to see clearly. I highlighted "spiritual search", because the beautiful and simple realization of these people at the end of their search, was that everything is already in its perfect essence, exactly as it should be, in the form of God, or Self, or Consciousness. Papaji was only a gracious mirror for those who searched, a mirror showing them their true selves. In the words of Papaji;

'What is eternal is always within you, as your own Self.'

Enjoy!

It was more by accident that I picked up this book as a bedtime reading and then I couldn't stop reading.
It's always fascinating to read other people's life stories and to find out, what they experience on their journeys
with their masters. All the private moments, the particularities and variety of people who step on to a spiritual path.
Twenty years ago I would have truly needed this book! Especially in the West, the "Spiritual" gets hyped and we
may think that we ourselves are not good enough to walk on a spiritual path or strive for what is called "awakening"
or we have ideas about how it is to be with a spiritual master.

Yet with this book Premananda shows us that it is very "normal" people whose inner compass has brought them to
their master Papaji and read their stories and what they experienced with him. It's soothing and encouraging to read
all these life stories that are so distinct and unique as we human beings are distinct and unique.

A very nice book!