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Shiva Sutras: Divine Techniques

Swami Sukhabodhananda, the founder of the Prasanna Trust and one of India's best known teachers of self-development, reads the Shiva Sutras as a manual of divine techniques for ordinary life. The book's twenty-three chapters move from vision to practice: clarity beyond verbal knowledge, wonderment as the foundation of life, the language of mysticism as a calm mind, the guru as an inner compass, the art of creating a new body, and the passage from mere activity to action. Middle chapters work the inner obstacles: fear met with fearlessness, the ordinary eye opened into the eye of intuition, the karmic principle demystified, inner poisoning dropped, worry taken apart as the rocking chair of the mind. The final movements return to grace, mantra as the creation of mystical fullness, simplicity as true inner richness, and the fragrance of inner surrender. Sukhabodhananda teaches with stories, parables and corporate-workshop directness, drawing on Kashmir Shaivism without turning scholastic, and his stated aim is that the reader find happiness here and now, in family, work and social zones alike. A modern application of an ancient text.

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