Building a Noble World

Table of Contents

Dedication.........................................................................................................vii

In Memory of Swami Muktananda...............................................................ix

Author’s Acknowledgements..........................................................................xi

About the Author............................................................................................xiii

Invocation..........................................................................................................xv

Introduction.....................................................................................................xvii

CHAPTER 1.........................................................................................................1

Religiosity Divides, Spirituality Unites

1.     The Absolute Can Only Be One..............................................................3

2.     Religiosity Is Not Spirituality..................................................................5

3.     The True Meaning of “I Am the Only God”.........................................7

4.     As You Sow, So Shall You Reap...........................................................10

5.     The Mystery of Death..............................................................................11

6.     Does Life Begin with Birth?...................................................................13

7.     Religious Fanaticism Incites Terrorism................................................15

8.     How to Respond to the Threat of Violence.........................................17

9.     War Breeds War........................................................................................18

10.  Conquer Evil with Good..........................................................................20

11.  How to Stop Terrorism.............................................................................21

12.  The Root of Crime and War....................................................................24

13.  Yoga Transforms Human Behavior.......................................................26

14.  Global Harmony........................................................................................27

CHAPTER 2.......................................................................................................31

A Call for Harmony among Nations

1.     From Colonialism to the Cold War.......................................................34

2.     From the Cold War to the European Union.........................................36

3.     Gandhi Opposed Partition Based on Religion...................................39

4.     Solution to the Kashmir Issue................................................................40

5.     Tibet’s Spiritual Link with India...........................................................45

6.     Afghanistan’s Sacred Tie with India....................................................46

7.     Spiritual and Cultural Roots of India...................................................47

8.     Proposing an “Indus Union”.................................................................49

9.     A 5,000-Year Cycle Predicts Asia’s Prosperity.....................................52

10.  Secret to Peace and Prosperity................................................................53

CHAPTER 3.......................................................................................................55

Yoga: The Highest of All Unions

1.     What Is Yoga?............................................................................................57

2.     Kundalini Awakening..............................................................................61

3.     Is Yoga a Religion?...................................................................................64

4.     Patanjali, the Scientist of the Absolute.................................................66

5.     Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.............................................................................67

6.     The Eight Steps in Yoga..........................................................................69

7.     Supernatural Powers................................................................................71

8.     What Is Meditation?.................................................................................72

9.     The Technique of Meditation................................................................74

CHAPTER 4.......................................................................................................81

Shaktipat: The Way to Spirituality

1.     Experiencing the Experiencer.................................................................84

2.     On the Siddha Path..................................................................................87

3.     Importance of a True Guru.....................................................................89

CHAPTER 5.......................................................................................................95

In Discovering Who I Am, God Is Known

1.     Who Am I?.................................................................................................97

2.     Am I the Physical Body?.......................................................................100

3.     Am I the Mind?.......................................................................................101

4.     I Am That.................................................................................................104

5.     How Can I Be Considered God?.........................................................105

6.     “I Am” Is the Essence of Religion.......................................................108

7.     In the Beginning Was the Word..........................................................110

8.     Secret of Self-Realization......................................................................111

CHAPTER 6.....................................................................................................113

Stories and Quotes of Wisdom

1.     Harmony...................................................................................................115

2.    Truth..........................................................................................................117

3.     Nonviolence.............................................................................................119

4.     Love ..........................................................................................................122

5.     Guru..........................................................................................................124

 APPENDIX A..................................................................................................129

Great Personalities

 APPENDIX B..................................................................................................141

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

 NOTES.............................................................................................................149

 INDEX .............................................................................................................159