The Mantram Handbook: A Practical Guide to Choosing Your Mantram and Calming Your Mind

by Eknath Easwaran

Overview

Use your mantram when you’re ill or anxious, tired or restless, and it will guide you and comfort you like a true friend.

The Mantram, or mantra, is a short, powerful, spiritual formula from the world’s great traditions, repeated silently in the mind, anytime, anywhere. Easwaran, the author of Passage Meditation and the best-selling translations The Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads, and The Dhammapada, taught the use of the mantram for forty years as part of his passage meditation program.

The mantram can help you to steady your mind and free it from anxiety, anger or resentment. Easwaran explains how the mantram works, and gives practical guidelines for using it to focus your thoughts and access deeper resources of strength, patience, and love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781586380281
Publisher:	Nilgiri Press
Publication date:	12/30/2008
Series:	Essential Easwaran Library , #2
Edition description:	Fifth Edition
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Eknath Easwaran (1910-1999) is respected around the world as an authentic guide to timeless wisdom, and as the author of thirty books, including passage meditation and the best-selling Classics of Indian Spirituality series. He taught meditation for forty years and founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, which continues his work.

Editorial Reviews

"An excellent book! . . . a splendid explanation of how mantrams work, how to choose one, and above all, how to work on oneself in general.” — Journal of Transpersonal Psychology

“A brilliant and inspiring book. As study of the mantram, or Prayer-word . . . this book is unparalleled.” — B. C. Catholic

“This clearly written little book is very pleasing. It is helpful in an academic sense because it gives precise, clear information about the power, uses, and variety of mantrams. It is helpful in a practical sense because it gives detailed instructions in choosing and using the mantram for psychological, spiritual, and intellectual development. . . . Eawaran's book is to be recommended in the highest terms.” — Choice

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