Pilgrims to Openness: direct realization Tantra in Everyday Life
by Shambhavi Sarasvati
paperback, Kindle, and iBook
In nearly 70 heart- and mind-opening essays, Pilgrims to Openness lays bare the compelling world view of authentic Indian Tantra (Kashmir Shaivism) and offers the reader direct and powerful guidance for embodying greater freedom and fulfillment in human life. With compassion, wry humor, and insight, Shambhavi leads the reader to understand precisely how our everyday lives can function as spiritual practice-eating, sleeping, moving, working and relating to other people. To read the book is to enter into a transformative conversation with wisdom, world, and Self.
Shambhavi begins by presenting a fresh view of Tantra that is true to the classical tradition, but speaks powerfully to the lives of contemporary people. At the heart of this view is uncontrived naturalness: the profound relaxation of body, energy, self-concept, and mind. Such relaxation leads inevitably to a life filled with freshness and wonder. The book is alive with personal anecdotes and encounters. Along the way, no subject is off limits, from difficult emotions, such as loneliness, to love relationships, death, kundalini, chakras, boredom, and how to wake up in the morning and for all time. The final pages offer detailed instructions for three key practices aimed at beginners and more seasoned practitioners alike. Pilgrims to Openness is a loving companion to anyone on the path.
Winner! 2010 Independent Publisher Book Award. “Best books about religion.”
“A wise and practical book that teaches you how to relate to daily life in a spiritually beneficial way and imparts a beautiful, full View of the Tantric path.”
—Swami Mangalananda, author of Om Ma Anandamayi Ma: A Short Life Sketch
From Pilgrims to Openness:
. . . One afternoon in the winter of 2005, on an ashram balcony overlooking the river Ganga in Varanasi, the sky opened and another river poured out: a river of intensely alive compassion and immense intelligence. Thus began my conscious journey toward my Satguru, Anandamayi Ma. Pilgrims to Openness is a phrase she coined. It describes a path that leads to pathlessness, to open, uncontrived life. . .
Discovering Reality Every Day CD
with Shambhavi Sarasvati
Don’t just read about Tantrik practice, do it!
Discovering Reality Every Day contains four seated practices derived from the Tantrik tradition of Kashmir. They are simple, yet profound techniques for Self-realization. Practiced daily over time, they will help you to discover greater openness, relaxation, awareness, and equanimity.
Each practice is concrete, accessible, and, at the same time, a gateway to more subtle experience. Whether you are a beginning or an experienced meditator, you will discover something useful and surprising here.
Cost: $15 USD plus $2.00 for shipping.
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