Sudden Awakening: Stop Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Discover Your True Nature

By Eli Jaxon-Bear and Gangaji

Everybody wants to be happy. Unfortunately, relatively few achieve bliss. Eli Jaxon-Bear explores how it is possible to achieve lives filled with gratitude and love. True happiness and meaning are achieved, he asserts, when we wake up, stop our minds, and open our hearts. It is then that we discover our true selves; our core identity that is part of the ultimate living intelligence of the universe; our true source.

Like Gangaji, Jaxon-Bear uses a method of self-investigation called “self-inquiry.” In the light of direct self-inquiry, limitations that once seemed to define ourselves are discovered to be more like transparent lines drawn on water. They exist only on the surface of consciousness in one’s imagination. When these illusions of mind are clearly exposed, true limitless being reveals itself.

This is a book that will appeal to those who are fans of Gangaji, Byron Katie, and Eckart Tolle. It is an articulate and helpful expression of a path to fulfillment for those wrestling with questions of identity and meaning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
• Release date: Aug 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781612833415

Eli Jaxon-Bear

Eli Jaxon-Bear has worked as a mailboy, dishwasher, steel-worker, teacher, and organic farmer. He was a community organizer with VISTA in Chicago and Detroit before entering a doctorate program at the Graduate School of International Studies in Denver, Colorado. He has been living with his partner and wife Gangaji since 1976. They currently reside in Ashland, Oregon. Eli meets people and teaches through the Leela Foundation: www.leela.org.

Book preview

PART 1

The Way to Freedom

CHAPTER 1

Welcome

A life of freedom is possible for you. You can awaken this instant and live as love itself. My teacher Papaji radiated this message to all who met with him in satsang. Satsang is beyond the realm of the mind, beyond the reach of any language. Please listen deeply as you read this teaching story of satsang.

Satsang: Out of slavery

Imagine for a moment that you're living in the time of slavery in the United States. Imagine what it would be like to be born a slave. Imagine that your parents were born slaves and their parents as well.

Now, imagine for a moment not only that you are a slave but also that your personal bondage, as well as slavery in general, is going to go on forever. This is just the way the world is. This is what you were born into. You are told what to do. You can be sold or traded at any time. You can be beaten. You can be used in any

Reviews for Sudden Awakening

[j · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is a book that awakens in one many different profound realizations. It is highly inspirational and motivates one to dig deeper and truly find out what it is that one is at the core. A captivating read!

[Tony Lilley · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Good book