Visakha Dasi has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Harmony and the Bhagavad-gita: Lessons from a Life-Changing Move to the Wilderness.
Harmony and the Bhagavad-gita: Lessons from a Life-Changing Move to the Wilderness
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After a lifetime of metaphysical study and practice, a journalist joins a diverse community of joyful spiritual pioneers in a remote British Columbia valley. There, she, her family, and her neighbors explore the down-to-earth application of the Bhagavad-gita's profound and beautiful teachings. Along with comic and cosmic challenges, these daring individuals harvest the Gita's rich and relevant guidance - guidance suited for any time, place, and circumstance.
"A marvelous job...an inspirational memoir and a pleasant reminder that there is a spiritual side to our existence." (Five-star review, Susan Sewell for Readers' Favorite)
"In the morning, I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonical philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial." (Henry David Thoreau, American poet, philosopher, and naturalist)
"Bhagavad-Gita is one of the most beautiful and profound texts of world literature." (Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and diplomat; Nobel Prize in Literature)
"That the spiritual man need not be a recluse, that union with the divine Life may be achieved and maintained in the midst of worldly affairs, that the obstacles to that union lie not outside us but within us - such is the central lesson of the Bhagavad-gita." (Annie Besant, British socialist, theosophist, activist, writer, and orator)
"Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day." (Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi)
©2011, 2015, 2017 Visakha Dasi (P)2019 Jean Griesser
Bhagavad-gita: A Summary Study
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Acclaimed by scholars for its authenticity and clarity, Bhagavad-gita: A Summary Study reveals and brings to life the Gita's spiritual wisdom and its beautiful themes of harmony and purpose, work and attitude, love and reciprocation. We're challenged and inspired through its answers to probing questions: What is my identity beyond the body and mind? What is my purpose? How can I be satisfied while in the midst of a turbulent world? Why is life worth living? What happens after death? "In this world," the Gita boldly declares, "there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge. Such knowledge is the mature fruit of all mysticism." For those who dare to think of aligning their consciousness with that of the Divine's, the Gita's wisdom offers a fulfilling life of inner serenity, balance, and love. In Bhagavad-gita: A Summary Study, the depth, resonance, and potency of the original Sanskrit text remains intact as it calls upon each of us to fulfill our highest potential.
©1998 Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (P)2018 Jean Griesser
Five Years, Eleven Months and a Lifetime of Unexpected Love
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"...a talented writer...her descriptions are lyrical and evocative." (Kirkus Reviews) "This makes Eat, Pray, Love look like a summer vacation.... An important historical and spiritual journey told seamlessly." (The BookLife Prize 2017, 10 out of 10 rating) In 1971, at age 20, Visakha had just published her first book and was beginning her ascent to fame and fortune through a career in photojournalism. She dreamed of bringing the people of the world closer by sharing their common kinship and values through her photographic essays. Then, at the invitation of her college boyfriend, who was working on his MFA thesis in India, Visakha traveled east, where she first learned about bhakti yoga - the yoga of devotion - from a simple Indian sage. The bhakti tradition seemed irrelevant to Visakha, and she rejected it. Five Years, Eleven Months and a Lifetime of Unexpected Love is Visakha’s deeply personal account of the emotional upheaval caused by her doubting her own cherished convictions, by her discovery that the alarmingly unreasonable - bhakti - could gradually become alarmingly reasonable. Visakha portrays her own and others’ experiences in India, Europe, and the United States as they grapple with knowledge and a culture that is at once utterly foreign yet also resonant with their hearts. And she reflects on the profound, life-altering questions that we all sometimes ask. Written by a fellow seeker who maintains a healthy dose of skepticism, this is the heartwarming, funny, colorful, bizarre, surprising, informative, and upending true story that will help questioner-skeptics see life from another perspective, one likely different from their own. In Five Years, Eleven Months, Visakha beautifully weaves together her personal losses and gains with an age-old tradition that enfolds her, creating a moving narrative for anyone who has ever asked, “Why?”
©2017 Jean Griesser (P)2020 Jean Griesser
Bhagavad-gita: A Photographic Essay
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A summary of the world's best-selling Bhagavad-gita. There have been literally hundreds of translations of the Bhagavad-gita published in English alone, which is evidence that the voices from ancient India still speak to us in modern times. Bhagavad-gita: A Photographic Essay is an artistic presentation of the key philosophical ideas of the Bhagavad-gita's 18 chapters. The author eloquently presents the Gita's transcendent vision. The Gita itself boldly declares, "In this world there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge." And in Bhagavad-gita: A Photographic Essay, the resonance and potency of the original Sanskrit verses remain intact as they call upon each of us to apply their wisdom in our everyday lives.
©2010 Jean Griesser (P)2018 Jean Griesser