Self Awareness Through Meditation

Author(s): Ranjitsingh Kumat
Publisher: Ranjitsingh Kumat

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FOREWORD
-Dr. L.M. Singhvi
'Self-Awareness through Meditation' by Shri Ranjit Singh Kumat is an exceptional contribution to the Science of Consciousness and the Art of Living. Delving deep into the historical and philosophical perspectives, Shri Kumat takes us in a panoramic journey to ancient texts and teachers and modern thinkers from Yoga of Maharishi Patanjali as well as Jain, Buddhist and other traditions to J. Krishnamurthy, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Eckhart Tolle and other modern thinkers. His examination of the philosophical approaches to Self-Awareness is profound without being pedantic and ponderous. He has the gift of being intelligible without being intricate. He puts it all in a systematic holistic perspective. All in all, the book is profoundly readable, engaging, lucid, instructive, educative, enlightening and edifying.
Awareness of the Self is the key to the doors of the Inner Space. That is where one encounters the Self in its innermost tranquil abode. That is where one acquires an understanding and the experience of the Truth ('sat') in onsciousness ('chit) and Consciousness in Truth. And that is the Triveni Sangam of Truth, Consciousness and Bliss. Self-Awareness and SelfKnowledge were accorded the status of Atma-Sadhana' (spiritual endeavour) in the Indian tradition. Such ‘Atma-Sadhana' or spiritual endeavour is by no means confined in their application and practice to the recluse and the renunciate. It has relevance in each of the four Purusharthas (Four Purushartha or endeavour of Dhamma, Artha, Kaama and Moksha) of human life. It has its own discipline in relation to each Purushartha and its ethos. Self in its inner space and innermost Purity and intrinsic Splendour is the Self, discovered, purified, attained and realized. Mr. Kumat's extraordinary book