Ananda Vacanamrtam Parts 9 & 10
(English edition of Ananda Vacanamrtam Parts 9 & 10 published in Bengali and Hindi in 1980)
The Ananda Vacanamrtam (“Blissful Discourses”) series assembles all the known General Darshana discourses given by Marga Guru Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. General Darshana (GD) pravacanas, or discourses, were those given to Ananda Marga members, often as a part of daily routine, in whatever locality Marga Guru happened to be staying in at the time. Normally briefer and lighter in tone (though no less profound in their fundamental meanings) than the discourses given on the formal occasions of Dharma Mahacakra (DMC), these pravacanas were sometimes delivered in a very intimate way to relatively small groups of margiis.
The publication of such speeches began in 1978 when the author resumed, after a gap of some years, His practice of giving regular discourses to His followers – an audience that by then included spiritual aspirants from many countries of the world as well as from India. This volume includes speeches containing certain unique points of practical guidance for the life of all human beings.
If a person is to reach the other shore of life then he or she has to lessen his/her life burden. But human beings are very week, so they cling to their burden and do not want to give it up. Even if they know that all these things constitute their life burden and there is the fear of their life boat sinking due this burden, even then they do not want to give these things up.
~ from “Source of Internal Stamina”
After the Ananda Vacanamrtam series first began in 1978, it then for several years kept pace with, and maintained the sequence of, the GD discourses that the author gave over those subsequent years. Hence the series up through Part 22, which part contained pravacanas from the year 1984, was published by 1985. Each part was published at least in the original language of the majority of its pravacanas. And as regards English translations of those parts published originally in Bengali or Hindi, such translations up through Part 8 lagged only a little behind the originals; the English Part 8 was published in 1987.
Subsequently, from the year 1994 through the year 2000, Ananda Vacanamrtam Parts 23-34 came out, containing mostly GD discourses of the author from before 1978. And of those twelve books, Part 23, Part 30, Part 31, Part 33 and Part 34 came out published originally in English. But between 2000 and the present there was no publication in English of any of the Ananda Vacanamrtam series; hence the translations of Parts 9-22, 24-29 and 32 were much overdue. There has been a long-standing demand from our esteemed readers for these parts, and the present book, Ananda Vacanamrtam Parts 9 & 10, is a step towards the fulfilment of that demand.
Ananda Vacanamrtam Parts 9 & 10 contains the author’s GD discourses given between February and April 1979, in Kolkata and at different places in India where the author stayed in connection with an extensive tour. These discourses are on varied topics such as spiritual philosophy, spiritual practice, history and culture; and truly contain the author’s valuable and practical guidance for all.
Weighing the feedback of our readers and all other considerations, we have now decided to print two parts of Ananda Vacanamrtam to a volume and to use a bigger and more conventional book size than had been used previously for the Ananda Vacanamrtam series. Henceforward, the various parts of the series will all be published in this manner.
CONTENTS
Part Nine
1.“Always Do the Kiirtana of the Lord”
2.“Wherever My Devotees Sing”
3.“Take Refuge in Parama Purusa with Unswerving Attention”
4.The Significance of the Word “Yuga”
5.Parama Purusa is One – Countless are His Names
6.The Meaning of a Few Names – 1
7.The Meaning of a Few Names – 2
8.Discrimination in Rights
9.The Primary Causes of Success
10.Parama Purusa – The Source of All Momentum
11.Vasu and Vasudeva
12.The Source of Internal Stamina
13.Man is Only an Actor in the Great Drama
14.Parama Purusa is Everywhere
15.The Means to Save Oneself from Sorrow
16.Parama Purusa Knows Everything
Part Ten
17.On The Savitr Rk
18.The Supreme Entity Transcends All Colours
19.Parama Purusa – The Primordial Cause
20.Yatamana – The Stage of Perseverance
21.The History of Bengal – 1
22.The History of Rarhbhum
23.Vyatireka – The Stage of Control
24.Tandava Dance – What and Why?
25.The Supreme Entity – The Non-Doer
26.The Witness-Ship of Parama Purusa is of Supreme Importance
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