Baba’s Anurag


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"Baba’s love encompassed the whole universe with an equality of vision. However he had deep emotional and spiritual ties with some of his devotees. Although Baba rarely left Shirdi in his physical form but he did visit the homes of the Dengle family in Neemgaon and the Saand family in Rahata. He went to some of his devotees place in the form of bas-relief images. The descendents of these devotees have preserved these images and venerated them till today. They were blessed not only in this life, but also for many past lives, that they had the good fortune of welcoming Baba into their homes. This book describes the homes of many of his devotees in and around Shirdi. Their homes and lives are described vividly so that we too can have a virtual tour of them and can partake a little of the ambrosia and fragrance of Baba’s love. Baba also had deep ties with devotees who resided in Shirdi. They eagerly waited for him to pass by their homes as he wandered through the villages so that the dust from his feet would sanctify their homes and their mundane lives. This book transports one to the bygone days and describes the various leelas of Baba from which valuable lessons can be derived.




A Thousand Times Before


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“A rich family saga about art and memory's power to inform the present, make peace with the past, and maybe even alter the future.” — Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts “[Asha] Thanki reinvents generational memory, conjuring inheritance as a tapestry of love, trauma, and choices that echo through blood. A profoundly tender and complex debut that I didn't want to put down." — Sequoia Nagamatsu, bestselling author of How High We Go in the Dark A heartrending family saga following three generations of women connected by a fantastic tapestry through which they inherit the experiences of those that lived before them, sweeping readers from Partition-era India to modern day Brooklyn. Ayukta is finally sitting down with her wife Nadya to respond to a question she’s long avoided: Should they have a child? The decision is complicated by a secret her family has kept for centuries, one that Ayukta will be the first to share with someone outside their bloodline: the women in her family inherit a mysterious tapestry, through which each generation can experience the memories of those who came before her. Ayukta invites Nadya into this lineage, carrying her through its past. She relives her grandmother Amla’s life: Once a happy child in Karachi, Amla migrates to Gujarat during Partition, witnessing violence and loss that forever shape her approach to marriage and motherhood. Amla’s daughter, Arni, bears this weight in her own blood in 1974, when gender equity and urban class distinctions divide the community as a bold student movement takes hold. As Ayukta unspools these generations of women—whole decades of love, loss, heartbreak, and revival—she reveals the tapestry’s second gift: the ability for each of these women to dramatically reshape their own worlds. Like all power, both fantastic and societal, this inheritance is more treacherous than it seems. What would it mean, to impart an impossible burden? To withhold these incredible gifts? Sweeping, deeply felt and intergenerational, A Thousand Times Before is a debut as poetic as it is propulsive, as healing as it is heartbreaking, as it examines what it means to carry our past with us and to pass it on. Rooted in a tender love story, and spun with a tremendous amount of care, this book is a rare, remarkable feat from an incredible new literary talent.




Good, Evil & Supernatural…


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Excerpts from the book I saw the main entrance getting a sharp shock. That moment only in the cow house I saw the cow jumping. All the doors from the main gate to the storeroom were pushed one by one by some invisible power. In the end the storeroom door got a big shock. A wave of air entered the storeroom. The cow had given birth to a calf a few days ago. That calf was tied in the storeroom only. The calf was sleeping. But as the wind entered the room, the calf woke up and started bouncing. We brother and sister got scared. Then only I felt the breeze rotating around my neck with some pressure. I got scared if Guru Akhandanand wants to strangle me? ** * She screamed, ‘I can’t leave A.P.! A.P. is mine only! A.P. is mine! A.P….’ I said, ‘Say this to that lady!’ She said fearfully, ‘No! She is scary!’ I asked, ‘Does she have long teeth or scary face?’ She said ‘No! She is beautiful. But I am feeling fear from her.’ I asked ‘How old is that lady?’ She said ‘About 25 years. She is asking me to leave A.P. Call A.P. I have to go to my A.P.’ ** * Then she looked at me and gave me a crooked and mysterious smile. Her face expressions were not of her. It was strange, cold and scary. Doesn’t know why I felt a wave of fear running down my spine. I controlled myself and asked to her, ‘What happened? Su? (I used to call her Su, short form of Sunita).’ She smiled in a way like she was making fun of me. Then she said in a friendly but stone hard, ice cold way, ‘You won’t be able to save her. I will kill your SU drop by drop like this only.’ ** * It was Tuesday night. I was practicing meditation by sitting in Padmasana posture. Suddenly I heard anklet’s sound around me, like some female came and was walking around me. Without getting scared I kept practicing meditation in the same posture. But after some time anklet’s sound came closer to me as if she had stepped on my meditation carpet. Means she had come too near to me. Yet I kept meditating. Then only doesn’t know from where a gust of breeze entered the room despite closed door and windows and began to hug me. The touch of the breeze was very ecstatic and it was giving me very deep pleasure. I found myself unable to keep the breeze away from me. ** * Again I felt myself laid in the jungle. Then only I saw an angry wolf stepping towards me, towards my head from 10 feet distance. Wolf’s stepping on the dry leaves was producing rattling sound. That wolf came near my left ear and growled fiercely. A chilled vibe ran through my whole body. The wolf started entering my body through my left ear hole. ** * That night in my half-waken sleep and half-waken dream, suddenly I felt weightlessness. A strange beautiful girl whose colour was unfair and skin was glowing, came in my dream. Her presence was not unfamiliar at all. She took my hand in her hand with love and flown off holding my hand and took me on a high branch of a tree in an unknown place. In my dream, I was realizing that she was a ghost. But yet I had no feeling of fear. I was totally fearless and I was feeling oneness with her. She poured a lot of love on me through her silent presence. When I woke up in the morning, I was feeling deeply contented and light. ** * He stepped on the road. As he reached the middle of the road, he became hundreds of feet tall. He was moving towards the field in his front. That field ended to some localities. Just in three steps he crossed the long field, entered some locality and got out of my eyes. ** * Life is the most precious gift which the God has given us just for free. We should value it. I was lucky that I was saved despite taking in 78 sleeping pills. But if I was not saved, how could I enjoy my life after the end of those dark days. We should always remember – good days always come and bad days always go. ** * Namaskar! I am Anurag Pandey (since 1978). I am writer, author, poet, lyricist and computer programmer. My poems have been published in national newspapers and magazines of India like Navbharat Times, Kadambini etc. I have written Story/ Dialogues/ Screenplay for various TV Shows like Lady Inspector, Shaka Laka Boom Boom, Indonesian TV shows etc. At present I live in Bhubaneswar, India. Meditation, yoga, mystery, paranormal, supernatural, love, relationships are some of my favorite topics to read and write. I hope you would enjoy reading this book. Your invaluable reviews requested.




Meditative Moments of a Seeker


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"Meditative Moments" are moments beyond moments. They keep you realizing that you are eternal and infinite. They never leave you from your chase. They keep reviving themselves. They go on getting deeper and more mysterious. They start pulling you. You fail to keep yourself uninfluenced by them. Slowly you drown in them. The doors of the inner world start opening one after the other and you feel as if you are an alien on your planet Earth. I am in relationship with ‘Meditative Moments’ since childhood. Sitting for hours in Padmasana (Lotus posture] on the open terrace in the afternoon and playing the game of Meditation. Inviting spirits using planchette and to marvel at their actual arrival, to be effortlessly in continuous state of witnessing. Then came a period of divagation. But those moments walked with me like a shadow and embraced me again. There is no erudition in this book. If you are interested in experiences related to meditation and you want to delve deeper into those experiences, then this book is for you. It has four chapters. First chapter is about various experiences of the subtle world. How Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Sai Baba, Goddess Dhoomavati, Vanadevi (Forest Goddess), Osho, Unknown Monk, Avadhoot Baba Sivananda etc met me in the subtle world and inspired me, helped me. Second chapter is detailed explanation of various experiences through which a spiritual practitioner undergoes while practicing meditation. For example the feeling of vastness, the pulsation in the penis, the movement of subtle bodies, the spinning and opening of the chakras, feeling the omnipresence of the consciousness, the unfolding of the past and the future, the manifestation of the inner world etc. Why and how do these experiences knock us? Which experiences are positive and which experiences are dangerous to be drowned in? How can we deepen these experiences? I have tried to put light on these factors as per my experience. Third chapter explains how we can practically use meditation for solving problems. How using meditation we can transform the future, heal physical and mental illness, understand, break and transform thought chains, purify body, mind, intellect and consciousness. And fourth chapter is about the benefits of meditation, how it improves your work skills, helps you set up your goals and so on.




One More Chance


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Prologue The seed of this story germinated during an air trip. I was waiting in a lounge at an airport. I happened to overhear the conversation of a young couple sitting behind my seat. It looked like that they had been recently gotten married. I could guess from their conversation that they were migrating to America. The husband was telling the wife that he felt guilty for leaving his mother behind. Within half an hour, the wife con vinced the husband that he should find a partner for the mother, that is, the mother should get married. Initially, the husband had doubts whether his mother would be ready for this or not. But his wife cajoled him so much, that not only did the husband agree, but very soon he was discussing preparing a profile for his mother's matrimonial alliance. This episode aroused my interest in the subject. It took me almost three years to research the topic of adult remarriage. Thus this story about divorced or widowed men and women, who are forced by their loneliness to look for a soul mate came into being. How the lonely people decide to start a new life with a new partner and choose the Internet portal in their search and their experiences as they journey through their search is the one of the focal point of this novel. The story at first glance appears like opening a Pandora's box as it is filled with many emotional shades and bizarre-looking situations. The charac ters in this story have been taken from life around us which are ubiquitous but scarcely noticed. The story unveils various shades of our liberated society. I was sometimes astounded by the newfound courage, sensuality and sexuality along with the in ner struggle, longing and getting rid of age old inhibitions in the newly liberated women. The readers may find spelling and grammar mistakes in some parts of the book, these are deliber ately inserted to keep the essence of chatting and mailing as it happens in real life on the internet. In chatting no one bothers about spelling or grammar, words like bro txt are just written to convey the fast message. The characters in the novel bear no resemblance to a person or persons living or dead. Art is the de piction of life coloured with imagination. Shyam Skha [email protected] @DRMoudgill




Black Friday


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On the afternoon of 12 March 1993, a series of explosions cut a swathe of terror and destruction through Bombay. The toll: 257 killed or missing, 713 injured, and a city in a shambles. In Black Friday, S. Hussain Zaidi takes us into the heart of the conspiracy which spanned several countries and the massive investigation that ensued. A product of four years of meticulous research, the book gives chilling insights into the criminal mind, through interviews with close associates of Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon, among others. The characters we meet are compelling: the terrorists, the corrupt law enforcement agents who abetted the plot, the investigators who would stop at nothing, and, above all, the people of Bombay of whose resilient spirit this book is a celebration. Riveting and incisive, Black Friday reveals the true dimensions of a horrific tragedy which shook the nation.




The Sadguru of Sakori - Upasani Maharaj


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The Sadguru of Sakori - Upasani Maharaj, born Kashinath Govindrao Upasani, (May 5, 1870 - December 24, 1941) was considered by his disciples to be a Sadguru. He lived in Sakori, India and is said to have received God-realization from Sai Baba of Shirdi. Upasani Maharaj was the principal teacher of Meher Baba. Meher Baba first met Upasani Maharaj in 1914 when latter was staying in Shirdi with Sai Baba.




101 Rasht Geet


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Baba's Rinanubandh


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The word 'Rinanubandh' literally means 'Karmic debt'. It is an impossible task to write the exaxt meaning of this word, as a lot of nuances are lost while doing so. When you read the lives of Babs's devotees you realise that it has deeper meaning. A bond that has existed for many generations. His devotees came from varied backgrounds. Some highly educated, others were rustic villagers. Some were young, while others were middle-aged and set in their ways. They went to Shirdi not knowing what to expect. Others went there by chance. But once they met Baba their lives were changed forever. And the 'Karmic bond"" started unfolding. Thus they returned time and again to be with the living God who blessed them and gave them a handful of udi. In the years that followed, no matter what befell them they knew that Baba was always with them. This book is a kaleidoscope of leelas, photographs and the lives of Baba's devotee. It will make the reading of Shri Sai Satcharita easier and fruitful.




Mathematical Reviews


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