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Print length – 236 pages
- Language – English
- Publisher – New World Library
- Publication date – August 19, 2004
Format – PDF
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About The Power Of Now :-
It’s easy to see why The Power of Now has been translated into over 30 languages and has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. The book takes readers on an illuminating spiritual journey to discover their true selves and reach the summit of spiritual development: the realisation of truth and light. This voyage is much more than just a series of truisms and clichés.
The power of now, which includes a new introduction by the author, demonstrates that Enlightenment can only occur once one regains knowledge of Being, is freed from Mind, and is deeply present in the Now. It’s understandable why The Power of Now has been translated into over 30 different languages and has sold over 2 million copies globally. The book takes readers on an energising spiritual trip to uncover their actual selves and achieve the pinnacle of spiritual development: the realisation of truth and light. This journey is much more than a collection of basic maxims and cliches.
The book relies on a number of different spiritual traditions, and one critic called it “a sort of New Age ve got of Zen,” with “Buddhism mingled with mystique and a few allusions to Jesus Christ.” It describes a “belief system centred on surviving in the present time” using these traditions. Its main thesis is that identification with one’s thinking is the primary cause of emotional issues in people. The author suggests that instead of losing oneself in worry and concern about the past or the future, a person should be mindful of their current situation.
The book argues that only the current instant matters and is real, and that a person’s history and future are both products of their thinking.
This book, which includes a new introduction by the author, demonstrates that Enlightenment can only occur once one regains knowledge of Being, is freed from Mind, and is deeply present in the Now.
Eckhart Tolle, who had a very difficult existence marked by numerous episodes of severe despair, suddenly achieved calm.
He began to wonder what it was that made his life so miserable while having dismal late-night thoughts. He discovered the answer in his “I,” which he created in his mind using the power of his ideas. The following morning, he awoke feeling incredibly at peace since he had learned to let go of his worrier self and live just in the present.
According to Tolle, the only significant moment is the one we give the least thought to: the present. Since everything occurs in the now, only the present is important. Everything you experience and perceive is happening right now. When you stop to think about it, the past is really simply the present moments that have passed, and the future is just the present moments that are waiting to happen.
Tolle would undoubtedly concur since he maintains that suffering is nothing more than the product of your resistance to whatever you are unable to alter. We spend a lot of time thinking about the past and the future, yet we can only exist in the now, leaving us powerless to alter the majority of the negative aspects of the former or latter.
Then, in order to bridge the gap between them, we fortify ourselves against them by fortifying a resistance to them, which is what we perceive as pain, whether it be psychological or physical.
It’s all in your brain, but when you’re furious, your thoughts and actions tend to become irrational, which almost always leads to a worse scenario and more misery.
The first tactic is based on a physics phenomenon known as the quantum zeno effect. It claims that by closely studying any system, you may freeze it in place. In most cases, delaying your actual next thought by repeatedly asking yourself this question will give you enough time to discover how much time you truly spend in autopilot mode. In this manner, you might begin to break away from your thoughts.
The second approach is to teach you to pay attention to your body and learn to put up with the persistent, bothersome ideas that run through your mind about what you ought to be doing or not doing.
To help you worry and regret less, consider the following three lessons:
The current moment is all there is to life.
Resistance to the things you cannot alter leads to all sorrow.
By continuously monitoring your thoughts and refraining from passing judgement on them, you may put an end to pain.
Eckhart Tolle had a very difficult existence, marked by several episodes of severe despair, until he suddenly achieved serenity. He began to wonder what it was about his existence that made it so intolerable and discovered the solution in his “I” — the self-generated from the force of his ideas in his head. The following morning, he awoke feeling incredibly at peace since he had managed to let go of his worrier self and completely live in the present. Eckhart Tolle, born in Germany and now calls Canada home. His book, Stillness Speaks, Milton’s Secret, The Realization of Being: A Guide to Experiencing Your True Identity (Power of Now), and A New Earth are some of his best-known works. In 2008, a New York Times reporter listed him as the most well-known spiritual author in the country.The one of the most influential and innovative spiritual educators on the planet today is widely regarded as being Eckhart Tolle. He introduced millions of people to the joy and liberation of living life in the present moment with his international bestsellers A New Earth, which have been translated into 52 languages. His teachings are centred on the value and strength of Presence, the condition of awakened consciousness that surpasses ego and discursive thought. According to Eckhart, this enlightenment is the crucial next phase in human progress. In addition to being dubbed “the most popular metaphysical author in the United States” by The New York Times and “the most psychologically influential person in the world” by Watkins Review in 2011, respectively.
People soon began asking him questions after he had spent many years doing nothing but savouring his new-found tranquilly, so he responded.
About Author :-
Eckhart Tolle is a lecturer, author, and businessman. He is a Canadian citizen of German descent and is best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. Despite not identifying with any particular religion, Tolle has been affected by a variety of spiritual writings.
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In this book Michele L. Louro compiles the debates, introduces the personalities, and reveals the ideas that seeded Jawaharlal Nehru’s political vision for India and the wider world. Set between the world wars, this book argues that Nehru’s politics reached beyond India in order to fulfill a greater vision of internationalism that was rooted in his experiences with anti-imperialist and anti-fascist mobilizations in the 1920s and 1930s.
Using archival sources from India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, and Russia, the author offers a compelling study of Nehru’s internationalism as well as contributes a necessary interwar history of institutions and networks that were confronting imperialist, capitalist, and fascist hegemony in the twentieth-century world.
Louro provides readers with a global intellectual history of anti-imperialism and Nehru’s appropriation of it, while also establishing a history of a typically overlooked period.
Michele Louro provides a revealing portrait of Nehru and of his two political souls. On one hand, there is ‘Nehru the comrade’, cosmopolitan and charismatic member of a militant network extending from Europe to Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
On the other, ‘Nehru the nationalist’ – a role far better known and widely celebrated – freedom fighter and to-be-father of the nation, leader of the Indian National Congress (INC) and at the forefront India’s struggle for decolonization.
Most literature mainly understands Nehru as a nationalist, hence portrays his commitment to internationalism as secondary or instrumental to the achievement of the nationalist objective of independence.
Taking distance from such interpretations, Louro makes room for Nehru’s often neglected avatar of comrade. She argues that Nehru’s faith in anti-imperialism was not ancillary to other goals but authentic, a political ideal adopted in its own right.
The author maintains that in Nehru’s political system there was, in principle, neither hierarchy nor contradiction between internationalist anti-imperialism and nationalist anti-colonialism. For him ‘nationalism was often framed as a “stage” to internationalism’ (p. 12).
Once socialized into the ideals of anti-imperialism and socialism at the Brussels Congress, Nehru envisioned of a world in which the anti-capitalist and the anti-colonial struggles went hand in hand, necessary as they were to each other.
Their respective goals were eventually convergent: to have a world free from exploitation, whether perpetrated to the detriment of working classes or non-European nations. Nehru tried to keep these two ideals together and to juggle his double role of LAI militant and INC member throughout the interwar period.
Comrade-congressman Nehru emerges from Louro’s account as an extremely able politician, a ‘transformist’ at times. In India, he strives to ‘internationalize Indian nationalism’ (p. 183). He pushes the Congress to join hands with the LAI contending that anti-imperialists support India’s cause for independence. He attempts to introduce socialism into the INC program, managing at the same time a difficult relationship with more moderate Gandhian congressmen (Ch. 3).
On the other hand, in Europe he advocates for LAI’s support to India’s nationalist cause positioning ‘India at the forefront of the world struggle against imperialism’ (p. 39). Later on, once the war threat becomes reality and the world spirals into World War II, he maintains that ‘peace can come only when India is free’ (p. 233).
Overall Louro delineates Nehru as a comrade sincerely committed to internationalist ideals, even when these eventually come into conflict with the priority objective of Indian independence (pp. 241, 254). The contradictions of Nehru’s ‘anti-imperialism with Indian characteristics’, emerge as fascism materializes in Europe (Ch. 6). The historical events of the period make it difficult for Nehru to juggle his two avatars as he used to. At the same time, they produce an ideological extremization that poisons the inclusive partnerships on which the LAI had been funded – the ‘blend’ of anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, and socialism Nehru had advocated for – eventually bringing the organization to its end (Ch. 7).
Louro suggests that Nehru’s commitment to internationalism remained incorrupt throughout these events and that he always acted in good faith. Rather than pure idealism, a more cynical diagnosis would read in these contradictions evidence of pragmatism, realism, perhaps even hypocrisy at times. Similarly, some deficiencies of Nehru’s internationalism, such as the Indo-centrism of his world view (pp. 55-7, 242, 254) or his approximated understanding of communist China – merely based on the interactions with the Kuomintang (pp. 242, 247, 254, 280) – could invite stronger criticism.
In any case, the book deserves commendation for providing a more nuanced and sophisticated picture of the politician Nehru, his political vision and his understanding of the world. Also, it shows in detail how these were influenced not only by Indian events, but by what was happening in the rest of the globe as well. Another important contribution of the book is that it sheds light on a historical period on which relatively less little literature is available. Louro’s arguments are based on a careful reconstruction of Nehru’s correspondences and travels. Moreover, her conclusions often expand or challenge mainstream notions.
She demonstrates, for example, that Nehru’s commitment to socialism begun not during his education in England (1905-1912), but at the Brussels Congress (1927) and through his consequent militancy within the LAI (Ch. 1, 2). Against historical accounts which argue that anti-imperialism pushed Nehru to ‘abandon authentically indigenous ideas about India’, Louro maintains that ‘Nehru’s anti-colonial and anti-imperial projects were not mutually exclusive and cannot be understood without examining the national and the international dimension together’ (p. 104).
To support this thesis, Louro considers the INC–LAI breakup of 1930 and its aftermath. Such crisis is widely seen as the end of LAI’s constraining over Nehru, which lets him finally free to embrace his nationalist mission fully. In fact, the author demonstrates that after the breakup Nehru’s anti-imperialist militancy did not stop but continued, and that he kept cultivating crucial relationships with former comrades (pp.182-3).
Another compelling part of the book is Louro’s take on Nehru’s socialism, a widely debated element of his political thought. She argues that his ’”vague and confused” sympathies or “partial commitment” to socialism and communism’ are better understood ‘by thinking about his commitment to anti-imperialism’. She therefore proposes a rereading of Nehru’s Glimpses of World History (1934) as an anti-imperialist text (pp. 184-8), which brings her to reject the idea that ‘Nehru’s world history depends on the enlightenment notions of progress based upon a Eurocentric version of history’ (p. 185).
Throughout the exposition, the author engages in dialogue with the related literature, explaining how the book aims at presenting interpretations often alternative to it. Her knowledgeable use of primary sources and clear prose further add to the value of the book.
Comrades Against Imperialism will appeal to readers across disciplines. It will be most useful to historians focusing on the interwar years and on internationalist organizations flourished in the period. Those looking at the history of imperialism, the British Raj, decolonization, and the participation of colonies to internationalist movements will find it equally enriching. The book’s central message to historians is to return the global context its relevance while writing national histories. With regard to Asia and India specifically, it ‘asks critically how this earlier history of anti-imperialist solidarity shaped and impacted Nehru’s views of India and the third world’ (p. 15). Hence, it is an essential reading for understanding the conditions and connections within which the struggle for independence took place and Nehru shaped his Weltanschauung.
Because Nehru’s imprint characterized India’s international stance as a sovereign state throughout and beyond the Nehruvian era, Louro’s study of Nehru’s internationalism is extremely relevant also to those concerned with India’s contemporary foreign policy. The book’s insights, often challenging dominant interpretations, offer useful inputs to rethink some crucial events of Asian history and India’s performance in those occasions. These are, for example, the Bandung conference (1955) –reassessed by Louro in Chapter 7 – as well as the 1962 India–China war. These are watershed moments whose long-term effects have not ceased to influence contemporary international affairs; yet no final conclusion has been reached about their interpretation and scholars keep investigating them to produce new knowledge. Comrades Against Imperialism finds a place also within this literature, as it adds to the debate on how Nehruvian India used to see the world and consequently engaged it. Therefore, it is a must read also for those concerned with producing historically-informed analyses of its foreign policy.
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