Heaven Is This

Heaven Is This begins with a description of the horrible conditions prevailing around 1942 in Budapest, Hungary — a veritable hell for the Jews there. A pregnant Jewish woman’s husband is taken to prison for being a Jew. She is so worried about the future of Jews that she tries to abort the baby… and thankfully fails… the author of this wonderful book is born. Soon the mother is also whisked away to the concentration camp. Abandoned like many other children on the sidewalk, she is at last retrieved by her grand parents. Soon they also die. After the war is over, the child is able to join the parents. Happy days follow but not for long. The Russians come and the family flees to Canada. Uprooted and replanted, the family survives.

Good fortune smiles on the girl and her latent but abundant talent for designing dresses blossoms forth. She becomes quite famous throughout Canada by 1975. Wealth and the comforts and pleasures that can be enjoyed through it follow.

Yet Man does not live by bread alone. A deep hunger is felt in the soul. A, She gives up her lucrative career and her husband, and goes in search of true love. Bhagawan Baba, responds to her need and step by coincidental step, she reaches Prasanthi Nilayam in September 1976. She stays on.

Twenty-three years of spiritual education and upbringing follow. Genuine spiritual aspirants will empathise with her in the agony and the ecstasy of the process of unlearning, cutting the ties of attachment and relearning, involved in the palpable realisation unconditional of love within. This is a very inspiring and useful book, giving some fine slices of Ashram life and Bhagawan’s singular teaching aids, oriented on His unconditional love.

— O. P. V.

Suzie Parvati Reeves

Sai Towers Publishing, 2001

8.5’’ x 5.5’’

238 Pages

Paperback

Rs. 250.00

 

 

SAI BABA - THE ROSE FIRE OF HEAVEN

This is Mr. Krishna Nandan Sinha’s second book. Quoting the author, the central thrust of this book is to demonstrate and show beyond any shadow of doubt that Sathya Sai Baba is the single flame, the one God, the formless God who incarnates in the phenomenal world as Rama, Krishna, Buddha and Jesus Christ. This he does whenever crisis threatens to engulf humanity, when the evil forces dominate, subdue and annihilate the good, the virtuous and the pious.

Mr. Sinha, in his usual style, quotes many great poets, including Hymn to Saint Teresa by Richard Crashaw. Mr. Sinha also refers to the celebrated essay on Dante by Eliot to say that there cannot be a better or more masterly imagery than that of light to express the unknown, inexpressible and unidentifiable.

Mr. Sinha has also quoted a few of Baba’s miracles from the sea of experiences of several aspirants, including one that describes the resurrection of a devotee. There are other miracles described in this book notably the one, when the governor of an Indian state and his wife were saved from a train fire. There are comparisons made to similar resurrections performed by Christ and other Avatars. The author explains why Bhagawan Baba bestows such miracles, signs and wonders to only some of the aspirants. In the chapter of ‘Four Quartets Of Moral Virtues’ it is very interesting to note the author’s comparison of ‘The Ninth Symphony’ in ‘The Last Quarters’ of Beethoven to Baba’s teachings. In the final analysis, this is a very good book on Bhagawan Baba.

— Ken Narayan

(Adapted from the Canadian Sai Bookstore Newsletter)

K. N. Sinha

Sterling Publications

Available in Sai Towers

8.5’’ x 5.5’’

182 Pages

Paperback

Rs. 85.00