Sadaa Shanti - Perpetual Peace

Author: V Balu
Foreword/Introduction: C. Subramaniam
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 79
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172761449

Description

Om Shanti! Shanti! Shanti! - it is with these words all the Vedic Prayers end. Shanti is a more comprehensive word than the English word Peace. Shanti has a spiritual content. It expresses the state of an ideal mind, not just happiness but more than that, a state of Bliss.

Where do you seek this bliss - it is not something you obtain through material benefits. It is within you. It is natural for the musk deer to emit the sweet smell but the deer goes about wandering to find the source of the smell.

The book is a culmination of V Balu’s work as a global peace activist and lays emphasis on inner peace and the role of individuals in global peace, the need of the day. The book begins with a peace prayer and then talks of faith, renunciation, inner peace, mental and global peace and global peace through art.

Don’t worry, be happy is one of the chapters in this book where he has reminded the readers that worry never solves any problem. Worry is a self created mental condition and is the result of factors like lack of contentment; he says and has given various examples to substantiate his words.

Contents

Contents

Foreword

Peace Prayer

Introduction

Why this Peacelessness?

Wars and Violence

What is Peace?

What is inner Peace?

Deep yearning for Peace

Faith in Peace

Don’t worry! Be Happy!

There’s Peace in Renunciation

Building a Temper of Peace

Enjoy the Joy of the Moment

Silence and Peace

The Search for inner Peace

Seeds and Fruits of Peace

Minding the mind for Peace

Mastery of the Mind the Gita Way

Two ways of Mind Control for Peace

On the Merits of the Peace Within

Role of Individuals in Global Peace

Peace and Children

No God… No Peace!

Epilogue: Some Steps to Peace

Appendix: Global Peace through art

A Peace Confession