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The Mantram Handbook

A Practical Guide to Choosing Your Mantram and Calming Your Mind
By Eknath Easwaran
Series: Essential Easwaran Library
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The Mantram Handbook by Eknath Easwaran offers a practical guide to using the mantram—a short, powerful spiritual phrase from the world's great traditions—for calming the mind and finding inner strength. Easwaran, renowned for his translations of sacred texts, teaches how to silently repeat the mantram to manage anxiety, anger, and restlessness, bringing focus and peace anytime and anywhere.
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Ideal for readers interested in spirituality, meditation, and personal development who seek practical tools to enhance mental calm and emotional resilience.

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The mantram, or mantra, is a short, powerful spiritual formula from the world's major traditions. Repetition of the mantram is a simple but highly effective spiritual practice that can be used at work and at home, fitting naturally within any faith, philosophy, or lifestyle. This is a guide to calming the mind with a mantram.

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Use your mantram when you're ill or anxious, tired or restless, and it will guide you and comfort you like a true friend.

The mantram, or mantra, is a short, powerful, spiritual formula from the world's great traditions, repeated silently in the mind, anytime, anywhere. Eknath Easwaran, the author of Passage Meditation and the best-selling translations The Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads, and The Dhammapada, taught the use of the mantram for forty years as part of his passage meditation program.

The mantram can help you to steady your mind and free it from anxiety, anger or resentment. Easwaran explains how the mantram works, and gives practical guidelines for using it to focus your thoughts and access deeper resources of strength, patience, and love.

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    The Mantram Handbook
    Use your mantram when you're ill or anxious, tired or restless, and it will guide you and comfort you like a true friend. The mantram, or mantra, is a short, powerful, spiritual formula from the world's great traditions, repeated silently in the mind, anytime, anywhere. Eknath Easwaran, the author of Passage Meditation and the best-selling translations The Bhagavad Gita, The...
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Praised as "an excellent book" with a "splendid explanation of how mantrams work" (Journal of Transpersonal Psychology), and described as "brilliant and inspiring" (B. C. Catholic), this handbook provides clear, detailed, and practical guidance. Choice recommends it in the highest terms for both academic insight and personal growth.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781586380281

Publisher: Nilgiri Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 February 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: Nilgiri Press

Edition: Fifth Edition

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 269g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Eknath Easwaran(19101999) is respected around the world as a teacher of meditation and an authentic guide to world wisdom. His method of passage meditation fits within any faith, philosophy, or lifestyle. In 1961 Easwaran founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, which carries on his work today.

Easwaran's books include commentaries on the great saints and sages of the world's traditions and have been translated into 26 languages. His translations of the Indian spiritual classics (The Bhagavad Gita, The UpanishadsandThe Dhammapada) have been widely acclaimed and are all bestsellers in their field, and more than 2 million of his books are in print.

A gifted teacher who lived for many years in the West, Easwaran lived what he taught, giving him enduring appeal as a teacher and author of deep insight and warmth.

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