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Bliss Beyond Words
Philosophy in words.

Author		Shri Vethathiri Maharishi English rendering by T.G.Narayanaswamy
Pages		i - xiii 112
First Edition		August 1990
Second Edition		January 2004
Dimension		12cm x 18cm x 0.6cm

Table of Contents
a. Vision of God 1. Bliss Beyond Words 2. True Realisation 3. Means to Fulfilment 4. Dawn of Wisdom 5. Path of knowledge 6. Truth 7. Stand Firm and Fearless 8. Message of Vedas 9. Value of Introspection 10. My Blessings 11. Hallmark of Nobility 12. Ecstasy of Enlightenment 13. Glory of Virtue 14. Mental Culture 15. Royal Road to Liberation 16. From Total to Fraction 17. What is Wisdom 18. Pot in water 19. Sweetness and Light 20. Fulfilment Ultimate 21. Afloat in Grace



b. Meditation 1. What is Meditation? 2. Three Shackles 3. Two Battle Fronts 4. Radiant Life 5. Liberation 6. Meditation and Marriage 7. Inner Travel 8. Conserve Life-Energy 9. Value of Kaya Kalpa Yoga 10. SKY - Your Guide 11. Calling All seekers 12. Beyond Birth and Rebirth 13. Meditation At Any Stage 14. Ennobling the Lineage 15. Means To Liberation 16. Sweetness of Liberation



c. Souls & Sense-Control 1. One Appears As Many 2. Ego, Sin and Illusion 3. Live Beyond Hundred 4. Continuity 5. Formula for Happiness 6. Value of Sense - Control 7. Merits of sense - Control 8. Limit and Method



d. Law of Action & Result l. Rule for Enjoyment 2. Welfare and Prosperity 3. Your Enemy Is Your Benefactor 4. Oppression Recoils 5. What is Duty 6. Relevant Education 7. Fanciful Image of God 8. Motivated by Imprints 9. Evaluate Thoughts 10. Stand up to Misery



e. Life After Death 1. Life-How it Functions 2. Imprints Continue 3. Hard To Explain 4. Law of Inheritance 5. No Reincarnation 6. Helping After Death



f. Miscellaneous 1. Conserve Your Happiness 2. Duty of Intellectuals 3. No Gloating or Grieving 4. Test For Wisdom 5. Purposeless Rituals 6. Towards World Peace 7. Weedout Non-Essentials 8. For A Brave New World 9. Recipe for Peace 10. Real Freedom 11. Power of Thought 12. One-sided Load 13. One-World Government 14. Fearless 15. Courage 16. Eschew Jealousy 17. Call to Scientists 18. Goal to Glorious 19. Quality of Leadership

Publisher's Note

"When lofty thoughts are given out in the course of a lecture, the benefit flowing therefrom could be likened to the effect of local rain; that is, the immediate listeners are the gainers. When the same thoughts are recorded in the form of an article, a pond comes into being from which drinking water could be drawn for a longer time, by a wider circle of people. Best of all is to condense the ideas in poetry which is in the nature of a perennial stream serving innumerable generations" - these are the words of Swami Vethathiri Maharishi who, in addition to being an Advaitin-Philosopher and a master of Yoga, is also a Tamil poet whose output in terms of literature has been prodigious and prolific.

Many hundreds are the inspired and inspiring Tamil poems composed by him during the past four decades of his active spiritual and social service. The present book contains a selection of his verses translated into contemporary English. We have been fortunate in securing the services of Mr. T.G. Narayanaswamy for rendering the poems into English. The work commenced with one poem a month for the cover-page of the journal Anboli which is the official magazine of the World Community Service Centre founded by Swamiji. The English renderings were widely read and appreciated in India and abroad; and it is the yearning of so many readers that has come to fruition now in the form of this valuable book. Mr. T.G. Narayanaswamy's expertise in translating from Tamil to English and vice versa has been acknowledged by men of letters for many years now. Being also a journalist, he has been privileged to present Swamiji's philosophy in modern idiom, as the run of the poems here would reveal.

The advantage with this book is that one does not have to sit down to read through the entire volume in one stretch. At home or in the office or even while waiting for a bus, one could open the book at any page to find a poem invigorating and elevating in its spiritual thrust. That makes this book an ideal gift to one's life-partner, children, relatives and friends.

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a. Vision of God

b. Meditation

c. Souls & Sense-Control

d. Law of Action & Result

e. Life After Death

f. Miscellaneous