Dialogue With Death: A Journey Through Consciousness

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Summary: Guide for living
Review: I've read this book three times and am planning to read it again. It's a wonderful book that helps me focus on what's important in life and how I can make choices to live authentically and deliberately. Reading this book helped me to make the decision to quit smoking and live a more healthy lifestyle. I would recommend this book to anyone who's asking the question "What's it all about?".

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Summary: Guide for living
Review: Late Mr. Eknath Eswaran,adherent of spirituality from childhood, has wonderfully written about the a teenager's curiosity about life after death. The book gives numerous examples from modern day life. Drawing from his expertise in the English language literature, the author makes the subject very familiar to the present day readers. He has quoted from Shakespeare to Aldous Huxley and Mahatma Gandhi and shown the thought concesus common to all great philosophers. Though the contents originate from one of the most ancient of the Hindu scriptures, every contemporary human being will identify with the life's problems of the modern times given in the book and will be helped plenty in finding many solutions.There seems to be a little more stress given on the self sacrifice than other modalities of spirituality like sense control, breath control and meditation but overall the book is very readable, language beautiful and when I read it I regretted the book was over.

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Summary: Learning death to live life more fully
Review: Late Mr. Eknath Eswaran,adherent of spirituality from childhood, has wonderfully written about the a teenager's curiosity about life after death. The book gives numerous examples from modern day life. Drawing from his expertise in the English language literature, the author makes the subject very familiar to the present day readers. He has quoted from Shakespeare to Aldous Huxley and Mahatma Gandhi and shown the thought concesus common to all great philosophers. Though the contents originate from one of the most ancient of the Hindu scriptures, every contemporary human being will identify with the life's problems of the modern times given in the book and will be helped plenty in finding many solutions.There seems to be a little more stress given on the self sacrifice than other modalities of spirituality like sense control, breath control and meditation but overall the book is very readable, language beautiful and when I read it I regretted the book was over.

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Summary: Profound
Review: One of the best books on Hinduism I have ever read. The book is about the conversations between a teenager, Nichiketa, and Yama - the God of Death : how Yama tempts the teenager with all the wordly riches just to test his sincerity and after being satisfied, unfolds the mystery of life and death to him.