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Bookshelf In the Presence of the Masters ~ Romola Butalia
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Publishers: Motilal Banarsidass
Hardcover: Rs. 250/- ISBN: 81-208-1946-2
Paperback: Rs. 150/- ISBN: 81-208-1947-0
Pp: 123 pages + 8 photographs
Review of book in Sunday Mid-day
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About the Book
Candid personal accounts of meetings with well-known Himalayan sages, the legendary master Guru Gorakh Nath, as well as Mahayogi Kapil Advait, popularly known as Pilot Baba, Mahamandaleshwar of the Juna Akhara, India’s largest and most prominent sect of renunciates.
Guru Gorakh Nath, widely revered as an immortal sage, has been associated with several enlightened masters and spiritual adepts through the centuries, including Kabir, Shankaracharya and Lahiri Mahashaya, grandmaster of Paramhansa Yogananda. Guru Gorakh Nath is acknowledged as the head of the current era Kriya Yoga tradition, an esoteric yogic science.
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Path of Practice
Consciousness
Ayurveda
Masters & Sages
Guru Gorakhnath
Mahayogi Pilot Baba
Pilgrim Trails
Panch Kedar
Rishikesh
Badrinath
Reflections
A-U-M
Karma Yoga
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The book introduces concepts of spiritual practices that have been handed down in a tradition where the master finds the disciple who is prepared. With previously unpublished photographs of the sages, it is a spiritual journey: a narration of circumstances, events, insights and the instinct to return ‘home’ that led to an uncharted path.
Excerpt from the Book
"My own impressions of Guru Gorakh Nath are of a warm, immensely caring human being. Perpetually absorbed in deep meditation, he glances around him occasionally, almost as though his vision is of a different space. When I first met him, at my initial glance I saw a perfect yogi. With a stern and serious disposition, distant and aloof, he was completely still, a perpetual witness without any vibrations. Soon I noticed a gentle, playful, happy child in his interactions with Siddhartha. He was the immortal master when his blessing came in words of eternal wisdom. I saw a friend in his parting words, "I will talk to you again." I recognized him as someone very familiar whom I have always known.
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giving the title: In the Presence of the Masters, author name: Romola Butalia and ISBN no: Hardcover: 81-208-1946-2 Paperback: 81-208-1947-0
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