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Your Mind Your Best Friend: 30 Days to Build Your Most Important Friendship
Note: Alternate-Cover Edition for ASIN: B00N5CLBAS
Your Mind Your Best Friend: 30 Days To Build Your Most Important Friendship (formerly titled Making Your Mind Your Best Friend) is an updated wonderful manual on the art of living. It teaches us how to develop the most important relationship in our life - friendship with our own mind, our true, natural Self. In our pursuit of success, peace and happiness, we seek outside help when we face huge hurdles. But we forget that the source of all happiness and peace in life is in our own mind rooted to the Spirit within. As the poet says, mind is the place where a man can make heaven out of hell and hell out of heaven. In this inspirational book that comes out of 40 years of practice of meditation by the author, you will read 30 lessons and 30 meditational practices that will transform your life forever. It is essentially a handbook, a manual that will guide you through all the unpredictabilities of life through self empowerment and self transformation.
Your Mind Your Best Friend: 30 Days To Build Your Most Important Friendship (formerly titled Making Your Mind Your Best Friend) is an updated wonderful manual on the art of living. It teaches us how to develop the most important relationship in our life - friendship with our own mind, our true, natural Self. In our pursuit of success, peace and happiness, we seek outside help when we face huge hurdles. But we forget that the source of all happiness and peace in life is in our own mind rooted to the Spirit within. As the poet says, mind is the place where a man can make heaven out of hell and hell out of heaven. In this inspirational book that comes out of 40 years of practice of meditation by the author, you will read 30 lessons and 30 meditational practices that will transform your life forever. It is essentially a handbook, a manual that will guide you through all the unpredictabilities of life through self empowerment and self transformation.
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104 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 29, 2009
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Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari
14 books12 followersAbout Author writing Living with My Himalayan Master: Sri Sri Bhajan Brahmachari - A Biography
Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari (Bodhi) was born on 10 May, 1949 in Calcutta, India. He left his job as a lecturer of Economics at a college in Andhra Pradesh at the young age of 26 to join his Guru’s ashram in Calcutta and embrace the life of a monastic at the feet of his beloved Master. Back in college, he was the most loved teacher who turned even the most notorious illiterate rogues of students into college toppers through the power of his love. Often during class, he would unconsciously start giving discourses of Vedanta, even as the students listened to him spell bound.
At his Guru’s ashram, he found himself in a situation which was like crocodile infested water. Naïve, innocent, and simple-hearted, his sensitive soul with transparent emotions found itself amidst nasty double-faced ashram politics. The only solace for his tender and spiritual heart was to serve his Guru and spend every drop of his blood for the ashram by building it brick by brick, from start to finish. He silently faced continuous humiliation from the committee members for he was the apple of the Master’s eyes, much to everyone’s envy. His blatant honesty and strict adherence to conscientious values earned him many insecure acquaintances who feared his presence but slandered him behind his back. He found that his Master was a Mother whose heart was a vast banyan tree that never refused shelter to any of her children be it a scorpion beneath her roots or a cuckoo bird on her branches.
After serving his master for 12 years, the Master secretly instructed him to leave the ashram and join the ashram of the universe where there were no walls to bind him and the sky was the limit to expand his deepest spiritual potentials— “You must leave the shelter of this banyan tree. If you forever remain under its shade, you will remain a creeper plant clinging to my body like all others. You are born to become a banyan tree to offer shelter to thousands of lives underneath.” By this time, his Master was not the external physical presence for him but was a non-separate entity of his own existence.
On the dawn of 28 February, 1982, when the clock struck 4, he left his Guru’s ashram forever, completely emaciated physically and mentally.
He went to the remote peak of Bageshwar in the Himalayas from where, in a state of meditation, he flowed, and the masterpiece The Incredible Life of a Himalayan Yogi, Baba Lokenath was created. Coming down to the plains therefrom, he began his journey as a harbinger of love and peace in the remote villages of Sundarbans, helping thousands of poverty stricken villagers to lead a self-reliant life of dignity and quenching the thirsts of many spiritual seekers around the world. Labelled as a Guru-renouncer by his own Guru brothers and sisters whom he had loved dearly, he only grew and grew as a tall, big and unmovable banyan tree, its deep roots nourished by the invisible waters of his Guru’s eternal imprint over his soul.
After 38 years of him leaving his Guru’s ashram, he wrote this ode to his beloved Master who had not left him even for a moment ever since he had left his physical shade on that fateful dawn of 1982.
This is the first ever biography of the Master written for a global audience. On the day its first edition was published, he said, as tears of love flowed from his eyes for his Guru, “Oh Master, I have no words of gratitude, for you have willed this unworthy child of yours to offer this very first lotus flower of its kind at your divine Lotus Feet. You may not have allowed me to serve your physical presence for long but have blessed my heart to serve your Spirit forever.”
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Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari (Bodhi) was born on 10 May, 1949 in Calcutta, India. He left his job as a lecturer of Economics at a college in Andhra Pradesh at the young age of 26 to join his Guru’s ashram in Calcutta and embrace the life of a monastic at the feet of his beloved Master. Back in college, he was the most loved teacher who turned even the most notorious illiterate rogues of students into college toppers through the power of his love. Often during class, he would unconsciously start giving discourses of Vedanta, even as the students listened to him spell bound.
At his Guru’s ashram, he found himself in a situation which was like crocodile infested water. Naïve, innocent, and simple-hearted, his sensitive soul with transparent emotions found itself amidst nasty double-faced ashram politics. The only solace for his tender and spiritual heart was to serve his Guru and spend every drop of his blood for the ashram by building it brick by brick, from start to finish. He silently faced continuous humiliation from the committee members for he was the apple of the Master’s eyes, much to everyone’s envy. His blatant honesty and strict adherence to conscientious values earned him many insecure acquaintances who feared his presence but slandered him behind his back. He found that his Master was a Mother whose heart was a vast banyan tree that never refused shelter to any of her children be it a scorpion beneath her roots or a cuckoo bird on her branches.
After serving his master for 12 years, the Master secretly instructed him to leave the ashram and join the ashram of the universe where there were no walls to bind him and the sky was the limit to expand his deepest spiritual potentials— “You must leave the shelter of this banyan tree. If you forever remain under its shade, you will remain a creeper plant clinging to my body like all others. You are born to become a banyan tree to offer shelter to thousands of lives underneath.” By this time, his Master was not the external physical presence for him but was a non-separate entity of his own existence.
On the dawn of 28 February, 1982, when the clock struck 4, he left his Guru’s ashram forever, completely emaciated physically and mentally.
He went to the remote peak of Bageshwar in the Himalayas from where, in a state of meditation, he flowed, and the masterpiece The Incredible Life of a Himalayan Yogi, Baba Lokenath was created. Coming down to the plains therefrom, he began his journey as a harbinger of love and peace in the remote villages of Sundarbans, helping thousands of poverty stricken villagers to lead a self-reliant life of dignity and quenching the thirsts of many spiritual seekers around the world. Labelled as a Guru-renouncer by his own Guru brothers and sisters whom he had loved dearly, he only grew and grew as a tall, big and unmovable banyan tree, its deep roots nourished by the invisible waters of his Guru’s eternal imprint over his soul.
After 38 years of him leaving his Guru’s ashram, he wrote this ode to his beloved Master who had not left him even for a moment ever since he had left his physical shade on that fateful dawn of 1982.
This is the first ever biography of the Master written for a global audience. On the day its first edition was published, he said, as tears of love flowed from his eyes for his Guru, “Oh Master, I have no words of gratitude, for you have willed this unworthy child of yours to offer this very first lotus flower of its kind at your divine Lotus Feet. You may not have allowed me to serve your physical presence for long but have blessed my heart to serve your Spirit forever.”
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvh0...
https://www.facebook.com/Bodhishuddaa...?
https://www.babalokenath.org
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November 4, 2018
This 30 day collection of readings and practical spiritual teachings, each ending with a practice, was compiled from tapes of talks by Hindu monk and universal spiritual teacher, Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari (now simply called 'Baba'). I transcribed and edited them over a period of about 6-8 months in 1998-99. It was life altering to sit at my computer, sending my edits to him in India, and then opening his emailed responses. I can only describe it as opening floodgates of grace. Though I had been meditating for decades prior to that time, it was like a light bulb going off to realize that I had to train my mind in order to not be at the effect of its vagaries....and training the mind, anchoring it, returning it always to the ultimate truth of our Oneness with Divinity is a critical, core practice in the life of anyone seeking peace of mind -- and even more so for any serious spiritual aspirant.
Who knew? Obviously, not me! I had never had the slightest clue before I began transcribing those tapes.
What is most remarkable about this power-packed little gem of a spiritual handbook, is the energy the readings and practices carry. They are imbued with the clarity of Shuddhaanandaa's numinous, enlightened mind and the sweetness of his spirit. He comes from the realms about which he speaks. His words carry that living reality, which permeates his every word, awakening his listeners and readers. Baba is the real thing, and there are lots of pretenders out there. His spirit comes through, sparkling and true, within every page of Your Mind, Your Best Friend.
You Mind Your Best Friend offers even seasoned seekers an invaluable tool on their journey.
Who knew? Obviously, not me! I had never had the slightest clue before I began transcribing those tapes.
What is most remarkable about this power-packed little gem of a spiritual handbook, is the energy the readings and practices carry. They are imbued with the clarity of Shuddhaanandaa's numinous, enlightened mind and the sweetness of his spirit. He comes from the realms about which he speaks. His words carry that living reality, which permeates his every word, awakening his listeners and readers. Baba is the real thing, and there are lots of pretenders out there. His spirit comes through, sparkling and true, within every page of Your Mind, Your Best Friend.
You Mind Your Best Friend offers even seasoned seekers an invaluable tool on their journey.
October 13, 2020
Great and excellent book
A very very good book. I read this book very carefully and without any hurry, this is what I have to say - this book should be read several times taking one chapter at a time to make a difference in one's personality. This book should be used as a workbook to bring true transformation in one's personality and also the book has the power to change the destiny itself, if the instructions are followed properly and put to proper rightful use.
In other words one can use this book as part of daily routine, which is worth investing the time.
A very very good book. I read this book very carefully and without any hurry, this is what I have to say - this book should be read several times taking one chapter at a time to make a difference in one's personality. This book should be used as a workbook to bring true transformation in one's personality and also the book has the power to change the destiny itself, if the instructions are followed properly and put to proper rightful use.
In other words one can use this book as part of daily routine, which is worth investing the time.
November 18, 2020
I read this book for the first time in 2012. And since then it has been my companion. During the period of 2012-2015, I was undergoing a very painful personal crisis with no hope. But this book gave me hope every single day. I just followed the practices. It completely transformed me as a person and the way i look at life and living. It is a book of practical spirituality and probably the best book of mindfulness I have read along with another one (Jon Kabat Zin's Catastrophic living). The five afflictions of mind explained in this book has been the true inspiration behind my TEDx Talk which I gave in the year 2019. I recommend this to everyone who is going through tough times and wants to transform their life.
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