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Harmony and the Bhagavad-gita: Lessons from a Life-Changing Move to the Wilderness
Harmony and the Bhagavadgita Lessons from a LifeChanging Move to the Wilderness Author:Visakha Dasi "A marvelous job... an inspirational memoir and a pleasant reminder that there is a spiritual side to our existence." — -- Five-Star Review, Susan Sewell for Readers' Favorite — After a lifetime of metaphysical study and practice, a journalist joins a diverse community of joyful spiritual pioneers in a remote British Columbia valley. There she, h... more »er family, and her neighbors explore the down-to-earth application of the Gita's profound and beautiful teachings. Along with comic and cosmic challenges, these daring individuals harvest the Gita's rich and relevant guidance -- guidance suited for any time, place, or circumstance.
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"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonical philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial."
-- Henry David Thoreau, American poet, philosopher, and naturalist
"Bhagavad-Gita is one of the most beautiful and profound texts of world literature."
-- Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and diplomat; Nobel Prize in Literature
"That the spiritual man need not be a recluse, that union with the divine Life may be achieved and maintained in the midst of worldly affairs,that the obstacles to that union lie not outside us but within us --such is the central lesson of the Bhagavad-gita."
-- Annie Besant, British socialist, theosophist, activist, writer, and orator
"Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day."