Undiscovered Country: Exploring the Promise of Death

by Eknath Easwaran

Book Overview

What death can teach us about how to live.

What is the greatest mystery in life? That although we see people die every day, we never believe we will die.

Easwaran is one of the twentieth century's great spiritual teachers and an authentic guide to timeless wisdom. In this book Easwaran addresses the lessons death can bring. He sheds light on the perennial questions of time, desire, the nature of the mind, and the realization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915132834
• ISBN13: 9780915132836
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Nilgiri Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.4" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Slaying the death

One more elegant spiritual masterpiece by spiritual master Sri Eknath Easwaran. In this book Sri Easwaran explores one of the certain things in life - the death. As they say the other certain thing is tax. There are IRS manuals to help us understand taxes :) To understand death, in a way it is better understood, this is the book. Easwaran demystifies the subject of death and helps remove dislike or fear or myriad of other negative emotions we may have about this certainty in life. Death is inevitable. How can one overcome physical death and prepare oneself for the journey beyond death? This book explores them using day to day incidents and examples. Even if we do not care about death, one or the other time in life, most of us have a glimpse of it much before the real death comes to us. After such an experience, it is normal for many to wonder about death. It may be for a moment or for years. That is one of the times to pick up this book and reflect on the wisdom from someone who spent years preparing for death. In that preparation he led a purposeful life. Sri Easwaran, many thanks to you