Healing Meditations

· Pickle Partners Publishing
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25
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About this eBook

First published in 1932, this little book from Swami Paramananda, the highly-regarded Vedanta philosopher and teacher, contains nine guided meditations—one each for the individual to address life’s problems and issues.

“THERE is nothing so potent as meditation to re-establish our rhythm when our mind is tossed by the waves of unruly thought.

“There is no ill in life that cannot be cured by right meditation.

“True meditation purifies our mind and clarifies our vision.

“True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

“It is through the habit of meditation we overcome all our sorrows and afflictions.

“For every ill there is a meditation. There is the Meditation of Life, Meditation of Light, Meditation of Purity, Meditation of Humility, Meditation of Joy, Meditation of Freedom, Meditation of Love, Meditation of Wisdom, Meditation of Peace.”—Swami Paramananda

About the author

Swami Paramananda (1884-1940) was a swami and one of the early Indian teachers who went to the United States to spread the Vedanta philosophy and religion there. He was a mystic, a poet and an innovator in spiritual community living. He was born on February 5, 1884 as Suresh Chandra Guhathakurta, the youngest son of a prestigious Guhathakurta family, in the village of Banaripara in the Barisal District (now part of Banaripara Upazila, Bangladesh). He began reading devotional texts at age 16, and on his 17th birthday joined a group of older men from the village in a journey to Belur Math to visit the monastery and temple founded by Ramakrishna’s disciples. There he met his teacher, Vivekananda, the foremost disciple of Ramakrishna and the first swami to teach in America. He was initiated a month before his 18th birthday, becoming a monk (sannyasin) of the Ramakrishna Order and the youngest disciple of Vivekananda. He trained under the mentorship of Ramakrishnananda, also a direct disciple of Ramakrishna, and founder of the Madras Math, a thousand miles south of Calcutta. In 1906, at age 22, Paramananda was sent to America to assist at the previously established New York Vedanta Society, where he lived and taught until 1909. That year he established the Vedanta Centre of Boston and founded the “Message of the East,” the first Vedanta periodical published in the U.S., offering articles, poetry and commentary on all religions in its monthly (and later quarterly) magazine. He authored translations of the Bhagavad Gita and The Upanishads, as well as four volumes of mystical poetry: “The Vigil”, “Rhythm of Life”, “Soul’s Secret Door” and “My Creed.” Paramananda founded four centres still thriving today, two in the United States and two in Calcutta, India. He lectured throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia for thirty-four years, up until his death in Cohasset, Massachusetts on June 21, 1940, aged 56.

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