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AMAR VANI
An Introduction
India has ever been famous in the history of the world as a land of saints and sages, seers and prophets, thinkers and philosophers. She has produced from age to age a long line of spiritual luminaries who placed before mankind, both by practice and precept, the highest moral and spiritual values of life and led it from darkness to light, from ignorance to knowledge, from scepticism to faith, from cruelty, animosity and hatred to kindness, love and compassion. The most revered Upadhyaya Shri Amar Muniji is one of the brightest of such spiritual luminaries of the present age. He practises what he preaches, and preaches what he pracitses. There is perfect harmony between his preaching and practice. The words of such a saint have a power, a piquancy, an appeal that the words of a mere preacher can never have. Amar Vani, the voice eternal, is the voice of this great spiritul apostle. It is a beautiful collection, one of the rarest one can find, of his thoughts and meditations on life, on soul, on God and on the universe. His meditations on life cover all the facets of the individual, social, national and universal life, AmarVani is a great apostle's message, an exhortation to man to know himself, to know and realize the powers and
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