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Awakening

by Sri Chinmoy
First published by Citadel Press, Edinburgh in 1988. Published on srichinmoylibrary.com with the permission of Sri Chinmoy.

Table of Contents

Part I — Growing up

  • 1. Aiming at the Heavens
  • 2. My only ambition
  • 3. Kettledrum
  • 4. Stories from the Mahabharata
  • 5. A singer and a poet
  • 6. Who wants to study?
  • 7. The lion and the goats
  • 8. Washing my father's feet
  • 9. My mother's wish
  • 10. My father and his swami brother
  • 11. My father and the occultist
  • 12. The bone in the throat
  • 13. My father's occult power
  • 14. The dhoti
  • 15. The last illness
  • 16. Consolation from Krishna's Conch
  • 17. Indian superstition
  • 18. Food for the dead

Part II — Escapes from death

  • 19. "My prayer is stronger than smallpox"
  • 20. The saviour boat from the depths of the unknown
  • 21. How sweet and tempting is sugar cane
  • 22. My mother in the eyes of a lion

Part III — Awakening

  • 23. A sea of light (an experience at the age of fourteen)
  • 24. Lord of my heart (1948)
  • 25. A vision
  • 26. Awakening
  • 27. Saraswati
  • 28. Agni
  • Introduction to first edition
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