Turn to God

Turn to God

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Book Specification

Item Code: IDK307
Author: Hanumanprasad Poddar
Publisher: Gita Press, Gorakhpur
Language: English
Edition: 2007
Pages: 138
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 7.9" X 5.3"
Weight 120 gm

Book Description

ISBN: 8129300400

Preface

This handy volume is a collection of a number of inspiring and illuminating articles from the pen of a learned and saintly writer, who did not feel inclined to disclose his identity and wrote under the pen-name of "Siva". As he is no more in this world, having breathed his last on the 22nd March 1971, we make bold to disclose his name and tell our readers that the writer was no other than the late Sri Hanumanprasad Poddar, the renowned Editor of the Hindi 'Kalyan' and Controlling Editor of the English 'Kalyan-Kalpataru', the two popular and very widely read monthlies published by the Gita Press, with whose epoch-making services in the field of spiritual literature they are already familiar. The articles originally appeared every month in the 'Kalya' under the caption 'Kalyan' and were alter on rendered into English by the Editor or Editors of the 'Kalyana-Kalpataru' or 'the Bliss', and regularly published in it under the caption "Unto Bliss". These articles have been highly appreciated by the readers of both the magazines and are read with avid interest every month. They speak for themselves and provide most excellent and sumptuous spiritual pabulum to the readers. The homely and touching instructions contained in them have a wonderfully universal appeal and are absolutely free from sectarianism or dogmatic touch. They can be read with equal benefit by the followers of all religious creeds and, if followed with reverence, are sure to take them to lofty spiritual heights.

The articles have also appeared in a number of handy volumes in Hindi and we are reproducing below the words of the author himself introducing the very first volume to the readers:-

"The mind is an ocean of though-waves. Many such thought-waves arise in the mind of "Siva" and some of them get recorded too. This small collection of the aforesaid thought-waves reduced to writing is being released. The faults of tautology and desultoriness may be noticed in this collection; for, after all, they are waves of the mind. It is no doubt true that there is a law operating behind the waves too and that they move in regular succession; but we are unable to perceive that order with our physical eyes. What we see are so many disorderly and irregular forms of the waves moving along with the blasts of the wind. It is possible those who view these waves with a critical eye may be able to discern some order even in this collection of thought. Waves. "Siva", however, has no concern with this. At the instance of the publishers, "Siva" has only strung together passages strewn here and there and given a heading to them. "Siva" does not know whether this will or will not prove to be the source of any benefit or amusement to the readers."

We have great pleasure in introducing to the English-knowing public this third small volume of the series under the caption "Turn to God" with the hope that it will be read with the same interest and benefit as the two preceding ones.

Contents

1 The True Goal of Life 1
2 How to Sack Suffering and Sorrow 4
3 The Way to Eternal Peace 6
4 Turn to God 8
5 Have Faith in God's Omnipresence 10
6 Feel Always the Presence of God 12
7 God is Always with You 14
8 Cherish Trust in God 16
9 Your Sincerest Friend is God 18
10 Trust You Ever Belong to God 20
11 Be One with Divine Grace 23
12 All is Bliss 26
13 Cultivate Love for God 28
14 Be United to God 30
15 Seek God with All Your Might 32
16 Instal God within Your Heart 34
17 Take Refuge in Him 37
18 Realize God Through Purity of Heart 40
19 In God Abide 43
20 In God Abide 45
21 Sluggishness Opposed to Godliness 50
22 Climb the Ladder of Divine Love 53
23 What Invites God's Pleasure? 55
24 Look Within 57
25 Hold Fast to Your Sadhana 60
26 Break the Boundaries of Yourself 63
27 Eradicate Ego 65
28 Happiness Through Renunciation 67
29 Contentment is Peace 70
30 Cut Worldly Ties and be Wise 73
31 Mend the Mind 75
32 Stick to Virtue 78
33 Rectify Your Own Faults 80
34 Discard Sense-Enjoyments 82
35 Cultivate Good Thoughts 85
36 Plant Flowers not Thorns 88
37 Ever Keep Yourself Cautions About sin 90
38 Pain is Gain: Pleasure is Loss 92
39 Welcome Divine Dispensation 95
40 Bury Your Worries 97
41 March on Your Own Path 99
42 Be a True Devotee 101
43 Never Look at Other's Faults 104
44 The Palatable Poison 107
45 Eschew All Evil 110
46 Not Poke but Patch a Hole 113
47 Utter Honeyed Phrase,
Shun Groundless Praise 115
48 Money Can be a Blessing or Curse 117
49 Right Use of Riches 120
50 Harbour Noble Thoughts 123
51 Do not Defer Devotion 125
52 Nature of Unalloyed Love 128
53 Glory of Satsanga 131
54 The Virtues of a Saint 134
55 Reward of Mind-Control 136

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