A More Ardent Fire: From Everyday Love to Love of God - Softcover

Easwaran, Eknath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888314028 ISBN 13: 9781888314021

Publisher: Nilgiri Press, 2000

Synopsis

In a verse-by-verse reading of a chapter on devotion from the well-known Indian scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, Easwaran offers practical wisdom, stories, and insights to guide us through the challenges of everyday love. Our deepest need is to love completely, universally, without reservation - in other words, to become love itself.
This book is Easwaran's commentary on Chapter 12 of the Bhagavad Gita, and is taken from Like a Thousand Suns (The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living Volume 2, chapter 7-12), with a new introduction from Easwaran.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Our deepest need is to love completely, universally, without reservation -- in other words, to become love itself. Where there is love, everything follows. To love is to know, is to act; all other paths to God are united in this path of love.

In form a verse-by-verse reading of a chapter on devotion from the Bhagavad Gita -- the most popular spiritual document of India -- Eknath Easwaran's words of practical wisdom guide us through the nitty-gritty challenges of everyday love, showing:
-- How to deepen our love for all those around us
-- How to seek the divine in all our relationships
-- What is means to "love the Lord"
-- Why it is so difficult to change entrenched habits -- and how to make those changes
-- Effective spiritual practices for learning to love

From the Inside Flap:

A More Ardent Fire is full of techniques for deepening and strengthening the capacity to love those around us -- and thereby deepen and strengthen the stream of devotion for God that flows in the hearts of all.

Readers seeking practical spiritual guidance based on personal experience and a universal approach will find them here -- written with Eknath Easwaran's usual delightful humor and lucid style.
-- Bookmarks are available for bookstore promotion
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-- Press kit will be sent to 350 magazine and newspaper reviewers
-- The Blue Mountain Center of Meditation offers retreats all over North America to teaching Eknath Easwaran's eight-point meditation program and introducing his books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nilgiri Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1888314028
• ISBN 13: 9781888314021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192