The Gospel of the Stone - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0977653307 ISBN 13: 9780977653300

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The Gospel of the Stone is a touching and vibrantly realistic story of the migration of a Native American people, led by the wise elder Shumavi. The Native American way of life—daily chores, cooking, rites, teachings, and rituals—are richly and vividly depicted.
Swami Ramananda reveals in The Gospel of the Stone a treasury of ancient traditions and teachings as well as a glimpse of Earth’s earlier epochs—the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Worlds—whose histories illuminate meaningful insights for the Fifth World, upon whose threshold we now stand.

"The legends and religious teachings of every continent seem to reach beyond recorded history to a time when the world was young, a time before all known languages came into being and before all known civilizations existed. Inscriptions and symbols recorded in the geological history of every continent speak to us of happenings and human events long forgotten."
- Swami Ramananda, The Gospel of the Stone

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Swami Ramananda founded the Sadhana Society in California in 1968. Among his teachers and contemporaries are Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindrinath Tagore, Swami Yogananda, Krishnamurti and Swami Prabhavanada, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts. While in India, he studied and traveled with Mahatma Gandhi. During a walk across India with Ghandi in 1939, Swami Ramananda took his vows as a Swami. He was present at Gandhi’s assassination and shortly thereafter returned to the US.
During his earlier years in India, Swami Ramananda also spent time with Rabindrinath Tagore, a Noble Prize winner for literature. Tagore gave Ramananda a copy of his book Sadhana with the wish that it could be used as a textbook in America. Swami Ramananda taught from Tagore’s book for over 50 years, alongside the Vedic Upanishads.
While Gandhi and Tagore were the teachers who influenced Swami Ramananda most, his first teacher of philosophy and spirituality was his grandmother, who was a full-blooded Mohawk. During his childhood, she told him of the legends, stories, and traditions of her people. He was deeply impressed and inspired by what he saw as great similarities between the Native American and Eastern religions.
While Gandhi and Tagore were the teachers who influenced Swami Ramananda most, his first teacher of philosophy and spirituality was his grandmother, who was a full-blooded Mohawk. During his childhood, she told him of the legends, stories, and traditions of her people. He was deeply impressed and inspired by what he saw as great similarities between the Native American and Eastern religions.
Swami Ramananda lived his life in constant wonder and learning. His students fondly remember his pocket-sized magnifying glass, which he carried everywhere, and which he would use to examine the subtle beauties in nature—whether a flower, stone, insect’s wings, or the veins in a leaf of a tree. His magnifying glass was a literal and symbolic message to his students that God is everywhere, in everything, and so beautiful to behold. He inspired those who knew him, through the very way he lived his life, to see God in the world and in oneself. He once said:
"Human beings are co-creators. This is our whole purpose for being. We are the co-creators we are continually expanding creation. There is nothing out there in the universe that we’re not part of. The human bag of bones has no limitations. If the physical side of us is filled with possibilities, think of the possibilities in that Mysterious Something within each one of us."

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• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0977653307
• ISBN 13: 9780977653300
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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