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" Mantram Handbook : "
Eknath Easwaran
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715609
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b537762
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Eknath Easwaran
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Mantram Handbook : : a Practical Guide to Choosing Your Mantram and Calming Your Mind.\ Eknath Easwaran
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New York: Nilgiri Press, 2008
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(208 pages)
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1586380303
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: 9781586380304
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Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Initiation into the Mantram; Choosing a Mantram; Some Great Mantrams; Making the Mantram a Part of Your Day; Keeping the Mind Steady; Overcoming Likes & Dislikes; Excitement & Depression; Harnessing Fear, Anger, & Greed; The Mantram at the Time of Death; The Goal of Life; The Mantram & Other Spiritual Disciplines; Becoming Established in the Mantram; Index.
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The mantram, or mantra, is a short, powerful, spiritual formula from the world's great traditions, repeated silently in the mind, anytime, anywhere. Examples of mantrams are Rama, Rama, used by Gandhi, or My God and My All, repeated by St. Francis of Assisi, or Om Mane Padme Hum. Easwaran taught the use of the mantram for over forty years as part of his passage meditation program. He explains how the mantram works, and gives practical guidelines for using it to focus our thoughts and access deeper resources of strength, patience, and love. The mantram can help us replenish our energy, release.
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