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Meeting the Mystery

Exploring the Aware Presence at the Heart of All Life

By: Nirmala

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Meeting the Mystery

Exploring the Aware Presence at the Heart of All Life

By: Nirmala

What is the source of the aliveness and awareness, which are fundamental to all life? What is the nature of desire, and how do our desires relate to suffering? How do we know what is true? What is the nature of belief, and how do our beliefs affect our ability to experience the deeper reality that is always here? And in the midst of these mysteries, how do we live our daily lives in the most satisfying and integrated way? Meeting the Mystery explores these questions and will help you discover new dimensions and possibilities in your life. This collection of articles and answers to questions posed by spiritual seekers is a springboard to ever deeper inquiry into the greatest mystery of all—Presence, which is who you really are.

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Endless Satsang Foundation

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Woven in Deception

By: Nirmala Kasinathan

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Woven in Deception

By: Nirmala Kasinathan

Woven In Deception is the story of a wealthy Indian family, a forgotten deceit, and a malignant curse. At the age of 65, Doraisamy inherits his father's textile empire. Soon afterwards he is diagnosed with colon cancer and dies following a long, drawn out and painful struggle. His eldest son and rightful heir, Rajendran, is a successful aeronautical engineer who lost his leg during the Communist Insurgency War at the Thai-Malaysian Border in 1967. Rajendran is also afflicted by a familial cancer that leaves him depressed and hopeless. Before passing away, Doraisamy appoints Rajendran as managing director of the textile business. Rajendran continues to face numerous problems, not the least of which are his own failing health and mental state. Unbeknownst to him at the time, his son Vikram is suffering child abuse at the hands of the family's domestic maid. However Vikram possesses great determination, and through hard work he manages to establish himself as a successful entrepreneur and artist, although even he suffers from numerous modern day trials and tribulations, including a dissociative identity disorder. Will Vikram be able to maintain his sanity and triumph over the malicious curse that has gripped his family for three generations?

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1612048935

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Forget Not All His Benefits

A Collection of Personal Testimonies

By: Nirmala Nathan

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Forget Not All His Benefits

A Collection of Personal Testimonies

By: Nirmala Nathan

For more than sixteen years, Ive witnessed firsthand the unwavering faith of Nirmala Nathan. Nirmala is a loving wife and mother of three children and a woman passionate for God. In her book, Forget Not All His Benefits, she shares a collection of true accounts and stories that will surely inspire your heart and soul. This book will challenge your trust level in God, dare you to reach a new level. Read, enjoy and be blessed by each page! Bob Johnston, lead pastor, Global Kingdom Ministries The author as a teacher has vividly portrayed her real-life journey with a spiritually insightful thinking that clarifies the challenges she had faced in a dramatic style. It is essential reading for anyone counseling, parenting, or teaching an adolescent or an adult to help them overcome stubborn emotional barriers and facilitate altering their paradigms for the sake of practical and spiritual life change. Rev. Sundar Savarimuhu, Tamil Christian Church, PAOC, Toronto Readers will be refreshed by this straightforward, simple, direct, and honest presentation of real-life incidents from the authors own life. Mrs. Nirmala Nathans testimonies in this book feel like a continuation of the book of Acts and a clear witness to Gods moving among His children even today. David Duraisami, president, Christian Fellowship of India and Sri Lanka Nirmala does a ministry of encouragement and comfort. Her Christian walk of faith witness inspires and uplifts others. She has touched many with her practical Christian approach. Vathsala Thomas, president of Thanjavur Christians in Canada

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WestBowPress

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1490803319

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A Defining Moment: Transnational Nursing Education

By: Dr Nirmala Arunasalam

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A Defining Moment: Transnational Nursing Education

By: Dr Nirmala Arunasalam

A DEFINING MOMENT, Transnational Nursing Education by Dr Nirmala ARUNASALAM is a competent and accessible text focusing on nurse education. Recommended for teaching and learning as well as pedagogical courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is a must have and a must read in a world of "pseudo factum knowledge" where social and human oriented professions and scientific disciplines such as nursing are getting little attention. The depth of the background for this study, and the intimate self-reflection Dr Arunasalam provides for this monograph greatly enhances the quality of the study. This book is an insightful exploration of an example of transnational higher education which identified some key questions that need to be asked about such programmes.

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Lulu.com

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1910781649

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Unraveling Misconceptions

A New Understanding of Em Forster’S a Passage to India

By: Nirmala Sharma

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Unraveling Misconceptions

A New Understanding of Em Forster’S a Passage to India

By: Nirmala Sharma

Both India and E.M.Forster have recently been discovered, so to speak, by the Columbuses of Western popular culture, the makers of British films and television serials. Mrs. Sharmas interest in both these subjects is of much longer standing and is less interested in scenic details than in hard intellectual essences. She has written a thoughtful and a thought-provoking book about the author of A Passage to India, one which givers Forster full credit for his large-minded tolerance but is uncompromising in pointing out where that tolerance fails and what are the short-comings of the background which caused the failure. Mrs. Sharmas book might well be subtitled The Limits of Liberalism, and she is especially illuminating when she traces the sources of this movement of nineteenth-century thought and demonstrates how E.M. Forster, both through his education and his family background, was liberalisms disciple and inheritor. She shows, moreover, how the rational bias of the nineteenth-century political and intellectual mind set kept Forster free of the usual English middle-class prejudices regarding the so-called inferior races and different cultures and how it armed him to oppose the emotionalism of the barely-disguised race-hatred displayed by most of the English who were ruling in India. Mrs. Sharma agrees that Forster deserves much of his reputation as the man who exposed British hypocrisy regarding India and the Indians, especially Muslim Indians. At the same time she demonstrates how Forsters total allegiance to the liberal creed of rationalism blinds him to the whole world of emotionalism and thus renders almost the whole of Hindu India a muddle to him. Forster is himself not entirely unaware of this limitation. He is after all the man who was capable of mustering only Two Cheers for Democracy. But he leaves the impression that the failure to understand India and to make a unity of things Indian is due to the gross size and complexity of the object to be studied and the narrow capabilities of the general Western mind. No Westerner, Forster implies, could ever hope to comprehend all the facets, contradictions, paradoxes, and mysteries of the Sub-Continent. Mrs. Sharma will have none of this. She is well read in English and American literature and can show how what was closed to Forster was perfectly open to such Westerners as John Donne and Walt Whitman. The fault, one begins to understand, is not with the West, but with Western liberalism and its obsessive fear of the irrational. Such a fear may indeed be shown to characterize Forster not only as a social critic but also as an artist. For instance, one of the chapters of his own though provoking book, Aspects of the Novel, deals with what Forster calls a conflict between plot and character. Characters, he recognizes, when fully conceived, sometimes have a way of taking on a life of their own, so to speak, and insist on behaving otherwise than the author had intended in his rationally coherent, preconceived plot. Since the plot carries the intellectual substance of a Forster novel, he advises novice writers, the readers of Aspects of the Novel, to put down these irrational rebellions of his characters with a firm repressive hand, to make them do what they were intended to do. A different sort of writer, one who trusted the irrational which Forster so feared, might have decided that the rebellious character might be leading the author to a new truth, one which the emotionalism of art, a opposed to the rationalism of logic, was capable of discovering. But not Forster, and thus when, returning to A Passage to India, his Mrs. Moore begins to understand what Forster, with his liberal background has pre-decided it is beyond her capacity as a Westerner to understand, he packs her off to England and kills her. The Forster whom Mrs. Sharma has discovered for us is almost as great a paradox as he perceives India to be. He is a consummate artist who does not trust his art. His is a good mind severely limited, a courageous mind when backed by rational thought, but a timid soul when faced by the irrational in others or even by the emotional in himself.

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1514475219

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Reviving local democracy

New Labour, new politics?

By: Rao, Nirmala

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Reviving local democracy

New Labour, new politics?

By: Rao, Nirmala

Reviving local democracy offers a vivid and persuasive critical examination of New Labour's programme for the modernisation of local government, providing a balanced view of the democracy and participation debate. Since 1997, the Blair government has sought to mobilise popular participation through local referenda, new political structures, electoral reform, and the creation of powerful new elected mayors. Through these mechanisms it is hoped that the lack of public interest and persistently low election turnouts will be overcome. The book draws on a wide range of new survey data to relate the crisis of local politics and governance to wider changes in the political culture. The author goes on to evaluate the government's proposals to reverse decline, asking whether this programme of reform is likely to succeed. With the aid of a series of recent surveys of both public and councillor opinion, and the successful blending of historical and empirical analysis, she offers an assessment of the realities which the democratic renewal project will have to confront in its implementation. The book is topical and timely, and highly accessible, and will appeal to students, those involved in local government, and anyone concerned to see local government become more representative, responsive, and open to popular participation.

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Policy Press

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1847425143

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Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self

By: Nirmala

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Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self

By: Nirmala

Advaita and nondual teachings are about finding the Truth. This Truth is not a dogma that you study; it is the Truth about life â€ the Truth about who you really are. This Truth is discovered, not learned. It is discovered through sincerely inquiring, Who am I? What you discover is that who you are has nothing to do with self-images or roles and everything to do with what you experience when you ask this question. What you discover is that who you think of yourself as is just that â€ a thought! And beyond that thought is a great Mystery â€ an experience of nothingness, which is your true nature.Nothing Personal leads you to the experience of your true nature and helps you explore its depth. Through exposition, questions and dialogues, it brings you to a place of realization of the Truth: you are that spacious Awareness in which everything appears, including your thoughts and feelings. Your thoughts and feelings do not define you but merely appear within Consciousness along with everything else. This Consciousness is who you are.Nothing Personal offers a gentle and persistent guide to seeing the underlying truth of your ultimate nature. In this concisely edited collection of satsang talks and dialogues, you are invited to honor the limitless love that is your true nature and to enjoy the sweet richness that is revealed when you give this Truth your undivided attention.From the introduction:Unlike most books, this one is not meant to add to your knowledge or understanding. It is about the Truth that cannot be spoken or written. Although the Truth cannot be contained in this or any other book, each word written here is intended to point you toward that Truth. Many of the words and ideas may seem paradoxical or contradictory because what they point to is larger than our conceptual frameworks. Many questions are asked, which are not answered anywhere in the book. Find out what the experience is like to ask yourself these questions, even if they leave you emptier of knowledge and understanding. In this emptying, you just may discover what you are looking for.The Truth is revealed when we allow ourselves to not know, so I invite you to set aside all that you know for the time being and allow yourself to look with innocent eyes at what the words are attempting to unveil. Take the time to experience the unspoken truth in each section before moving on to the next. Resist the temptation to read these words with your mind, which is likely to rush right past the Truth. Allow the words to sink into your heart and reveal the truth of who you are.

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Endless Satsang Foundation

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145230436X

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History of the Hindu Religious Endowments in Andhra Pradesh

By: Koutha Nirmala Kumari

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History of the Hindu Religious Endowments in Andhra Pradesh

By: Koutha Nirmala Kumari

The History of Hindu Religious Endowments in Andhra Pradesh (1800-1953 ad)-presents an account of situations in Hindu Temples of Telugu speaking areas of Madras Presidency till the creation of separate HR & CE Department for Andhra Pradesh in 1951. The association of the British and their legislation towards religious endowments with reference to Tirupati Temple over the State interference in matters of religion has been analysed.

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Northern Book Centre

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8172110855

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9788172110857

Maun

A Meeting with Silence

By: Nirmala Sewani,Annie Miller

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Maun

A Meeting with Silence

By: Nirmala Sewani,Annie Miller

‘In the sanctuary of silence, a penetrating stillness beckons, inviting us to traverse the sacred realms within. Silence is not merely the absence of sound; it is a canvas upon which revelations unfold, the spirit discovers its inherent wisdom and the divine whispers in gently painted echoes.’ Set in Rajasthan, India, Maun presents an intriguing sketch of a thirteen-year-old spirited Sindhi girl, Nirmala, who walks a less travelled path of silence and self-discovery, while also challenging myth, superstition, and hypocrisy on all platforms. Through candid anecdotes and intimate reflections, the memoir offers a more inclusive and sensitive approach to oneness, inviting the reader to witness a journey of profound insight into the recesses of deep silence. In essence, Maun is a personal yet universally interconnected narrative that boldly reveals the transformative power of our thoughts, inspiring and guiding those who seek clarity, solace, and a renewed sense of purpose in life. It is an offering to embark upon an unforgettable voyage into the secrets of silence and discover the sublime magic that lies therewith.

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Hay House, Inc

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811955468X

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9788119554683

Communication Techniques in Farm Extension

By: T. Rathakrishnan,M. Israel Thomas,L. Nirmala

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Communication Techniques in Farm Extension

By: T. Rathakrishnan,M. Israel Thomas,L. Nirmala

This book comprehensively covers three broad areas which one could not find from any single source. The major areas includes Farm Journalism which deals with basic concept and dimensions, principles, genesis and growth, journalism and mass media, ideals, functions and canons of journalism, ethics of journalism, art of speech, readability meaning, definition and formula for readability, newspaper makeup, E-journalism - online journalism, types of leads, writing feature stories, news, types of news, photo journalism, reporting - qualities of a good reporter, reporting skills, editing, balancing news paper. The cyber extension, information and communication technology (ICTs) covers genesis with development of instructional technologies, application of multimedia in agricultural extensions, Interactive video disc, cyber extension, information and communication technologies (ICTs), expert system, agri-portal, tele conferencing and its application, audio conferencing, video conferencing, trends of development in ICT. Finally, the new topic which is not covered in any of the text book of this nature is transfer of technology efforts - problems tree analysis. It will be of immense helpful to the field level extension functionaries and students communities to strengthen their communication skills. With rapid strides in agricultural sciences virtually, there is an information explosion. Mass media including newspaper, magazine, radio, TV are coming out with more and more agricultural information support programmes. This book act as an interface between media managers and professionals for the development of agricultural front.

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Scientific Publishers

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9386347482

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9789386347480

Journey Within

By: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

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Journey Within

By: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

JOURNEY WITHIN: THE FINAL STEPS TO SELF REALIZATION is the story of our spiritual ascent, both as individuals and collectively. With equal parts instruction and inspiration, the book beautifully describes how we have gotten where we are today and our essential next steps. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi gave more than 3000 recorded talks all around the world. Whether it was a village school, a medical conference, a gathering of UN employees or a suburban hall on a hot summer evening, her central words were the same: introspection, ascent, inner peace and Ð most important of all Ð a realization of our true self. With humour and love, she both guided and listened. From the opening words, ÒMy father felt that I would do something great, Ó we can sense the trajectory of this tale. And we know too that we are bound for that same greatness. With this book, Shri Mataji reminds us of the journey we are all on. And the direction of that journey is always the same. It is a JOURNEY WITHIN.

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1387540165

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Everything Is Included

Essays About Truth, Love and Awareness

By: Nirmala

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Everything Is Included

Essays About Truth, Love and Awareness

By: Nirmala

Oneness is not only a profound and very personal life-changing experience, but a perspective that can transform the world by bringing more love, light, compassion, and truth to the world. Oneness connects us all. We are all affecting each other in every moment, and recognizing this to whatever degree we can is transformative. Everything is included in this oneness, which all spiritual teachers and enlightened leaders point to. In embracing everything with an attitude of its essential worth and value, we can go beyond the illusions of separation to a simple resting in the beauty and mystery of all of reality. This book is a collection of articles and essays, which continually point to this oneness and the all-inclusiveness of life. In it, you will find responses to many common questions posed by seekers, which will help you in your search for greater peace, love, and understanding

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Endless Satsang Foundation

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1530731402

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Bamboo Shoot

Superfood for Nutrition, Health and Medicine

By: Nirmala Chongtham,Madho Singh Bisht

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Bamboo Shoot

Superfood for Nutrition, Health and Medicine

By: Nirmala Chongtham,Madho Singh Bisht

Bamboo is an ordinary plant with extraordinary properties. With its high growth rate and self-renewing ability, bamboo’s sustainability is unparalleled. Bamboo is an important resource for a healthy planet, and its shoots hold manifold nutritional benefits. Based on 18 years of research, Bamboo Shoot: Superfood for Nutrition, Health and Medicine details health-promoting bioactive compounds found in bamboo and offers practical guidance on how this vegetable, bamboo shoot, is used for food fortification. Already a delicacy in many Asian countries, bamboo shoots aid in the prevention of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, hypertension and obesity. Exploring the tradition and culture of bamboo in Asian countries, this book also provides information on the science behind the nutritional value of bamboo shoots. Written by individuals with expertise in bamboo shoot nutrition and fully illustrated in colour, this book reveals the antioxidant activity of bamboo shoots and discusses the potential for bamboo to be used as an ingredient in functional foods and nutraceuticals. This highly practical book discusses processing and packaging of shoots for long term storage and using bamboo in the development of novel food products. Features: Elucidates the nutrients and phytochemicals in over 30 bamboo species and includes a glossary of scientific names Highlights the nutraceutical and antioxidant properties of bamboo Describes novel healthy food products fortified with bamboo shoots and provides food recipes using bamboo Explains how bamboo can help countries achieve their sustainable development goals, from poverty reduction, food security, improved nutrition and prevention of diseases to climate change mitigation and inclusive green economic development Aimed at professionals in the nutrition and food processing industry, this book appeals to those with an interest in incorporating bamboo into a healthier lifestyle. Endorsements This is a unique book interestingly crafted to highlight the important nutritional, health and medicinal aspects of Bamboo, an area that is greatly underexplored. It will bring awareness that bamboo shoots are a low calorie, high fibre nutritious vegetable packed with vitamins and minerals. - Prof. Cherla Sastry, Founding Director General INBAR and Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto, Canada This book brings a series of answers to all questions related to bamboo as a superfood [and will] enlighten readers how to transform bamboo shoots using either traditional or modern techniques, how to package them and how to use them as a functional and nutraceutical food. It also provides a series of cooking recipes for healthy eating while we enjoy our food. - Ximena Londoño, Founder, A Bamboo and Guadua Paradise, Colombia

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CRC Press

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1000202070

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Gulam Mandi

A Throbbing Market of Sex Slaves

By: Nirmala Bhuradia

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Gulam Mandi

A Throbbing Market of Sex Slaves

By: Nirmala Bhuradia

Gulam Mandi revolves around the life of its two protagonists – Kalyani and Janki. It makes one travel through the horrible, fraught and turbulent world of human trafficking wherein innocent children and women are entrapped, sold and forced into flesh trade by a well-knit network of mafia gangs. In its quintessential, the story brings forth the myriad colours of human nature – hate, rejection, betrayal, apathy, ecstasy, opportunism, pure love, sex, expectation, trust, empathy, hope, rejuvenation and so on. Kalyani, a beauty queen, fears ageing and childbirth and is jealous of her own young daughter. Janki, who comes from an oppressed class and had a turbulent childhood, faces rejection from a few people, but finds shelter in Kalyani and Gautam, but, of late, destiny plays its tryst with her life. Finally, she finds solace in Mohan. It portrays the uneven world of the exploitors, who usurp and violate the victims, and the victims who are the sufferers and cannot normally escape the clutches of their perpetrators to rebuild their life. It also brings into limelight the pity world of hijras, the victims social apathy and prejudice, and their sexual exploitation at the hands of many. Here is a clarion call to the society on the ills that it has been afflicted with! About the Author Nirmala Bhuradia Nirmala Bhuradia (b.1960) is an Indian journalist and writer who writes in Hindi and English. She has published nine books in Hindi. She is Features and Literature Editor and Syndicated Columnist at Naidunia, one of India’s most widely read Hindi daily. She is a winner of many prizes and awards. She can be contacted at .

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DK Printworld (P) Ltd

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812460973X

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That Is That

Essays About True Nature

By: Nirmala

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That Is That

Essays About True Nature

By: Nirmala

That Is That: Essays About True Nature is a collection of articles and answers to questions posed by spiritual seekers. It captures the essence of spiritual inquiry and provides the reader with a real transmission of Presence on every page. It is much more than an exposition about our true nature as infinite Oneness, it offers an experiential exploration of who we really are, not only through the transmission in the words, but through the many thoughtful questions it raises. Nirmala's warm-hearted and accepting presence makes it possible to drop into the space he so eloquently describes, where peace, love, and joy abide. He is a master at helping you fall in love with life and the many expressions of the one Being we all are.

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Endless Satsang Foundation

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1453759735

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Earth and Space

Photographs from the Archives of NASA

By: Nirmala Nataraj

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Earth and Space

Photographs from the Archives of NASA

By: Nirmala Nataraj

“[A] glorious, pictorial tour of the universe . . . beginning with photos depicting Earth from space and progressing through . . . the individual planets.” —School Library Journal Preface by Bill Nye Take a tour of the universe with this breathtaking collection of photographs from the archives of NASA. Astonishing images of Earth from above, the phenomena of our solar system, and the celestial bodies of deep space will captivate readers and photography lovers with an interest in science, astronomy, and the great beyond. Each extraordinary photograph from the legendary space agency is paired with explanatory text that contextualizes its place in the cosmic ballet of planets, stars, dust, and matter—from Earth’s limb to solar flares, the Jellyfish Nebula to Pandora’s Cluster. Featuring a preface by Bill Nye, this engaging ebook offers up-close views of our remarkable cosmos, and sparks wonder at the marvels of Earth and space. “Delve into the great beyond with these awe-inspiring photos from NASA’s archive.” —Entertainment Weekly “Puts some of our most magnificent space imagery in context, and it’s enough to make anyone feel like just the tiniest little speck of stardust.” —BuzzFeed

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Chronicle Books

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1452146055

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From Oppression to Assertion

Women and Panchayats in India

By: Nirmala Buch

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From Oppression to Assertion

Women and Panchayats in India

By: Nirmala Buch

The book explores the experiences, impact and responses of women in village panchayats in India after a Constitutional Amendment in 1992 made it mandatory to reserve one-third positions for women. Based on extensive field research with interviews of 1,200 panchayat representatives and community members in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (states usually seen as low on social and gender indicators), the book documents awareness, motivation, perceptions, and participation levels of women elected in the first election following the Amendment, with a follow-up survey of the same panchayats in the next two elections. This work maps the empowering impact on women’s self, the attitudes and perceptions of the family and responses of other social institutions. It explodes the myth of women’s disinterest in politics, the entry of only affluent women and relatives of influential politicians, and particularly, of these women as proxy for their male kin. The recent policy announcements reserving more seats for women in panchayats (from one-third to one-half) makes this book topical, and especially interesting in light of the opposition to the reservation of seats for women in state legislatures and the parliament.

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Routledge

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1136197575

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9781136197574

Gifts with No Giver: A Love Affair with the Truth

By: Nirmala

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Gifts with No Giver: A Love Affair with the Truth

By: Nirmala

Sample poem:I have fallen in love with truthI only want to be with herI can not stand to be apartI would gladly go to the ends of the earthor I would never again move from this spotjust to be sure to inhale her fragrant perfumewith my dying breathI have fallen in love with truthher every wish my commandI simply must obeyfor she has captured my souland taken complete controlof even my innermost thoughtsfreeing me to find repose in her unadorned splendorI have fallen in love with truthwith exquisite tenderness she shows methe perfection in my every flawno need for pretensefor she knows everything about meand yet takes me in her armswith complete abandonuntil only she remains

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1452304386

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Sanskar Book 1

By: Nirmala Gupta & Aruna Mathur

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Sanskar Book 1

By: Nirmala Gupta & Aruna Mathur

This series of 4 books named 'Sanskar' has been compiled by Nirmala Gupta and Aruna Mathur under the able guidance and inputs from H H Maa Purnanandaji, the Founder Chairperson & Spiritual Head, Satyavrat Institute of Subjective Sciences, Noida (U.P.)

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