Why the Monk Laughed: PART I

By N.Natarajan

This is the first part of a two part book on Spirituality. Not everyone who use the word Spiritual and Spirituality Mean the same!. Most people use Spirituality to be synonym for Religion. Religion and Spirituality are two life journeys in diverging directions. Religious (and also the journey of life) takes place with in a NARROW world called SENSE LIMITED WORLD. The Phenomenon called MAYA restricts the SENSE PERCEPTION to avery small extent. Spiritualists live beyond the limits of SENSE PERCEIVED WORLD.
Only those who could escape the grip of MAYA can become a Spiritualist. Religion shows a simple way to bypass and escape from MAYA.. Other processes call for UNDERSTANDING the MAYA, internalising the knowledge and then win over it.
This part explains the basic steps - understanding all about Religion and Spirituality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: N.Natarajan
• Release date: Dec 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463199329

N.Natarajan

Electronics Engineer, tech trainer, author .A certain event in my early life changed my pursuit from normal material life everyone else and became a seeker. I was seen as a Mad guy as I went around trying to find a Man-of-knowledge. A great Spiritual master, Swamy Rama of Himalayan Institute was my first guru. He made me realize that there is none who can answer all my questions and that several Gurus will appear before me and educate me and vanish. It happened in all these years.For my own use I made notes and that I published as free e-books so that people who are in their spiritual journey benefit from my experience. I have written about Spiritual and Religious titles (Spirituality is not Religion) some in Tamil and others in English.AT some point the poor and poverty came into my attention. I learnt Economics , Politics, the way Human mind work and Education - they are all linked to Poor and Poverty.I never priced my writing. Because I believe that knowledge should not be sold. After all I got them from several noble souls and not mine.Recently for the recent title: Three ways of Living (First of the three book series that help one pursue (1) Celestial Pleasure (2) Yogic Power and (3) Salvation I made it that the reader may decide the price.I am happy to find five readers opted to pay USD 4.95.I am working-out the way that the sale proceeds of my writings (ebooks) reach the trust that builds and manages the Memorial for Kanchi Seer Chandra Sekara Saraswathi, in Orikkai. Tamilnadu.Worked for telephones Madurai. 1968 to 71, TERLS ISRO Trivandrum. 1971 to 75. Isro Sriharikotta 1976 to 78Min of Planning govt computer center Delhi, 1978 to 82.DoE (NATIONAL INFORMATICS CENTER). Delhi six months 1982 june -1983 Dec.CMC LTD DELHI AND. CMC LTD CORP R&D Hyderabad 1983 to 1997.Rendezvous on Chip Secunderabad 1997 to 2000.Sophists Technologies Hyderabad 2001. To 2003.Robert Bosch India bangalore. 2003 to 2004.Freelance Tech trainer, author,. from 2004 to now.So for written 31 titles and 5 more on the preparation.The topics include: short stories Religion and spirituality, Education - Economics - poverty and - politics are disasters to the society.My 40 year long Spiritual journey, I realize, has come to an end. I am sharing my learning with readers.

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Publishing Particulars

Title

Why the Monk Laughed?

PART One

Genre:

Spirituality

Author:  

N.Natarajan

Contents

Introduction:  Who all need this book?

Chapter 1    Tourist Meet the Monk

Tourists meet the monk - Tourists with a mission - What attracted the monk to spirituality – Life of saints starts as a common man.

Chapter 2    Three worlds within our world

Three groups of people - 1. The common man 2. the scientists and 3. saints -Three different worlds

Chapter 3     Sense limited world

What is a sense limited world - Maya – Why sense perception is restricted?

Chapter 4     Religious and Spiritual life.

Spirituality and Religion - Sense limited world Vs Real World – Rebirth and Liberation - Religious life VS Spiritual life - Spiritual path - Seekers Grow into Spiritualists – Spiritualists help ordinary man.

Chapter 5    Understanding Life in different ways

Life is compared to a Journey Life is a journey -

Run of Lives on By-lanes and Highways.

Chapter 6     Lives run. Why do lives Run?

Life as a Relay Run - Life, A Metaphoric Run - Is God a Sadist - Spiritualists are Comparable to maintenance engineers and doctors. Metaphorical Run - Spiritualists are Comparable to maintenance engineers and doctors. - Run chain! - Religions help humans Run for the creator - Freedom from RUN! - All the lives run in their world! Maya plays it role

Introduction

Who  all need to read this book?

Majority of the people do not need to read this book. This book is meant for a very few.

Who are they?

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