Sai Inner Views and Insights: Inner Views and Insights : 30 Years With the Avatar [Paperback]

Howard Murphet (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1996 | ISBN-10: 1887906002 | ISBN-13: 978-1887906005 | Edition: North American ed

Here is a compelling new book by Howard Murphet, internationally acclaimed author of Sai Baba, Man of Miracles. Murphet traces his experiences with Sathya Sai Baba over the past three decades. This time, Murphet not only describes miracles vividly, but he shares his experiences and insights into Sai Baba's teachings.

He intimately describes how his understanding of the great Avataric Being deepened as his inner view of Him increased over thirty years. Sai Inner Views and Insights is rich with inspiring and entertaining anecdotes told by a master storyteller with ease. He invites the reader to participate in his experiences of God.

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About the Author

Howard Murphet was born in 1906 in Tasmania, Australia, and educated at the University of Tasmania, Hobart. During the Second World War he served with the Eighth Army from El Alamein to Tunis, took part in the invasion of Sicily and Italy, and, later, with the British Second Army in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. He was also in charge of the British Press Section at the Nuremberg Trials for some time.

After a period as a Publication Relations Officer in the chemical industry , he visited India in 1964 to study Yoga and Eastern Philosophy. His first stay in India, (1964-70) deepened his consciousness of the Avatar Sai Baba and led to his return to India in 1974 and many times since, most recently in 1994.

Other books by Howard Murphet are: Sai Baba Man of Miracles, Sai Baba Avatar, When Daylight Comes, Walking the Path with Sai Baba, Beyond Death - The Undiscovered Country, Where the Road Ends.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Leela Pr; North American ed edition (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1887906002
• ISBN-13: 978-1887906005
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,366,229 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book of true inner views and inner insights, September 25, 2010

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Tommy S. W. Wong (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sai Inner Views and Insights: Inner Views and Insights : 30 Years With the Avatar (Paperback)

Howard "wrote" this book after he had turned blind. This book is truly inner views and inner insights. Even though the book was written via dictaphone, it is well written and easy to read. For more recent experiences of Sai Baba, readers may refer to my book How Sai Baba Attracts Without Direct Contact: Diary of a 21st Century Sai Devotee.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensible reflection and application of Sai Baba's teachings, June 12, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Sai Inner Views and Insights: Inner Views and Insights : 30 Years With the Avatar (Paperback)

At some point, one would expect that this is a retelling of some stories in Howard Murphet's earlier books. Not so, these are the sensible, wide ranging spiritual reflections and stories of a patient, deeply spiritual and reflective man. There is a lot of wisdom and a lot of joy in this book.

Howard Murphet has explored spirituality from many perspectives, via Christianity, Theosophy, and Subud. His first guru was his mother.

This book contains reflections on thirty years of visiting, investigating Sai Baba's claims to Avatarhood, and living the teachings of Sai Baba in everyday life. Murphet attends the questions of the newcomer, the committed devotee, covering Christ, Divine Mothers, Fear, Love, Forgiveness, doubts, the passing over of his wife Iris, rebirth of Vivekananda, scholarly devotees, along with health, harmony and healing.

Murphet is a ponderous writer with a powerful integrity and selfless love shining through all his writings. There are valuable stories of early days in the ashram with Sai Baba, Howard's questions to Sai Baba and his deep reflections on the meaning of the replies he received. Sai Baba, when asked at the first world conference who Murphet was, replied, "He is a German Sanskrit Pundit". Perhaps this is the best description of Murphet's work, a pundit extrapolating and showing the ways and means of living with omnipresent divine love.

A book to be read slowly and reflectively.