In the first US edition of Satish Kumar's classic book, we rediscover how our spiritual and social well-being connects to that of our planet.Internationally-respected peace and environment activist Satish Kumar has been gently setting the agenda for change for over 50 years. As 350.org founder Bill McKibben says, "There is no one on the planet better-equipped to make you think and rethink how you're living and how you might change."The age of sustainability...

Traces the spiritual journey of the author, as he learns to view the world as a network of multiple, diverse relationships.René Descartes' famous maxim 'I think, therefore, I am' considers the world in terms of dualism, division and separation. Yet the Sanskrit dictum, So Hum, is well known across India but not in the West, and can be translated as 'You are, therefore I am'. A journey of the mind, You are Therefore I am examines the sources of inspiration ...

"Live Disease Free" book is based on my experiences of practicing healthy lifestyle and foods in daily life, which has kept me free from diseases even at the age of 76.I wrote the book in Hindi with the title "Aap Chanhe to Bimar Na Paden", which became very popular. Inspired by overwhelming response to it, I felt encouraged to write this English edition, adding even more valuable information.I am sure that by following the simple and achievable tips shared in this book, yo...

"A profound and accessible guide to an ecological civilization of peace, material sufficiency, and spiritual abundance for all." —David Korten, international-bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the WorldConsumerism drives the pursuit of happiness in much of the world, yet as wealth grows unhappiness abounds, compounded by the grave problems of climate change, pollution, and ecological degradation. We've now reached both an environmental and spirit...

The fascinating life story of Satish Kumar – monk, peace activist, pilgrim and ecological campaigner.When he was only nine years old, Satish Kumar renounced the world and joined the wandering brotherhood of Jain monks. Dissuaded from this path by an inner voice at the age of eighteen, he became a campaigner for land reform, working to turn Gandhi's vision of a renewed India into reality.Fired by the example of Bertrand Russell, he undertook a peace pilgrima...

To see peace in our lifetimes, we have to practice love.This is the radical message of this inspirational book of pithy advice from environmental activist Satish Kumar, which helps us find ways to love ourselves, others, and all beings on planet Earth—even those we may find unlovable.Satish Kumar is well known for his epic walk for world peace in his youth in the 1960s from India to the nuclear capitals of Moscow, Paris, London, and Washington, DC. Wherever...

Among all the experiences of the Buddha, his eye-to-eye encounter with a terrorist is perhaps the most relevant and vital for those of us caught in the binds of the early 21st century.Once upon a time in northern India, there lived a violent and fearsome outcaste called Angulimala ('necklace of fingers'). He terrorised towns and villages in order to try to gain control of the state, murdering people and adding their fingers to his gruesome necklace. The Buddha set ...

Small World, Big Ideas collects twelve of the most inspiring and courageous activists together to share their stories and present an inspiring vision of what each of us can do to build a better world today.There's an activist in all of us, and you don't have to shout about it to be heard.And to prove it, life-long campaigner and former Jain monk Satish Kumar has invited twelve of those activists he most admires to ...

मेरी उम्र आज ६० साल ( 19th dec. २०२२) की हो गयी है भगवान् के आशीर्वाद से पिछले बिस सालों में १० लाख से ज्यादा गौ माता को अपनी टीम के साथ बचाया | बहुत संघर्ष हुआ , बहुत गौ भगतों की शाहदत हुयी | बहुत बार मुझे भी चोटे लगी, रक्त भी बहा, पर फिर भी आज तक गौ रक्षा के लिए मैं लगा हुआ हूँ क्योकि मैंने संकल्प लिया था कि अपने आखरी साँस तक मैं गौ सेवा व गौ रक्षा करता रहूंगा क्योकि मेरी माँ ने तो मुझे ६ महीने दूध पिलाया है पर गौ माता आज 60 साल तक भी दूध पीला रही है | मैं गाय को बचपन से ही प्यार करता हू...

Satish Kumar has held senior managerial positions and has achieved God realisation/attainment through deep Meditation. He has already written two books namely: 1. Human mind awakening and management and 2. Know yourself...your personality. He writes for the overall betterment of the mankind. Presented in the form of a story, written in meditation with God, it is a valuable and interesting reading. It can help build peaceful and happy love relationships. It will help readers take mature dec...

This book explores the «postcolonial modern» across South Asian literatures and cultures, while demonstrating that postcoloniality is an ongoing lived experience and that modernity has always been a many-voiced historical reality. It contends that our realities and our sense of a location within them have always comprised an experiential manyness of time and space that cannot forcibly be reconciled into identities that are singularly imagined. Therefore, whether viewed historicall...

The book is designed to highlight the utility of supramolecular systems in diverse areas such as sensing of ionic and molecular analytes, aggregation, artificial molecular machines, biology, and medicine. The synthetic chemistry of a diverse set of supramolecules encompassing various supramolecular interactions involved in driving macrocyclic architectures is discussed. Attempts have been made to cover unique features of macrocycles viz. control over shape, size, and valency along with sup...