Learning to Love, Part 2: A Love that Lasts: Lessons from Shakespeare and the Gita
About this ebook
A lasting, loving relationship comes high on the list of life goals for many of us – so why is it so hard to achieve? And where can we find help? Eknath Easwaran is a highly regarded, much-loved spiritual teacher and author who has guided thousands of readers over the decades.
Love is a skill, he tells us, and one that – with some effort – we can all learn. With humor, wisdom, lived experience, and lots of compassion, he gives us practical insights and spiritual advice that anyone from any background can follow to find true love.
This is the second of two short ebooks from Easwaran titled Learning to Love, and you can read them in any order. Here he draws on two sources of inspiration. One is the Bhagavad Gita, the Indian scripture for which he is a leading translator and interpreter.
The other is Shakespeare’s famous sonnet on love, which he knew well as a Professor of English in India before coming to the US. He comments on it in the light of all our modern challenges and offers his own light-hearted update on the plot of Romeo and Juliet.
But you don’t need to know anything about these sources to enjoy this little book. Download it, read it, and get to work learning to love.
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About the author
Eknath Easwaran (1910–1999) is the originator of passage meditation and the author of more than 30 books on spiritual living.
Easwaran (pronounced Ish-war-an) is his given name; Eknath is the name of his ancestral family.
Born in Kerala, India, Easwaran was a professor of English literature at a leading Indian university when he came to the United States in 1959 on the Fulbright exchange program. A gifted teacher, he moved from education for degrees to education for living, and gave talks on meditation and spiritual living for 40 years. His meditation class at UC Berkeley in 1968 was the first accredited course on meditation at any major university.
In 1961 he founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, a nonprofit organization that publishes his books, videos, and audio talks, and offers retreats and online programs in his eight-point program of passage meditation.
Easwaran lived what he taught, giving him lasting appeal as a spiritual teacher and author of deep insight and warmth.
