Ánanda Vacanámrtam Parts 11 & 12

“Ánanda Vacanámrtam Parts 11 & 12”

We are very happy to present you a new volume of Baba’s discourses Ananda Vacanammrtam Parts 11 and 12. The volume contains Baba’s discourses delivered between April and June of 1979, in Kolkata, Europe, and Mumbai.

During our editing phases, each discourse for which the tape was available, we carefully verified, and re-transcribed them where necessary against original Bengali. We have made diligent efforts to authenticate Bengali original, prior to the English publications of this volume. You will find the details, in the “Editor’s Notes” part of the volume. 

The present volume includes several illustrations of the gods and goddesses discussed in Part 11. They will assist readers, who may be unfamiliar with these gods and goddesses, to follow Baba’s vivid descriptions, explanations and historical analysis. Most of these illustrations are collected from different museums and the rest are drawn by our artists. Beneath each picture, there are captions in Baba’s own language about those gods and goddesses. 

Contents

Part Eleven

1. Introduction to Various Popular Gods and Goddesses                                 1

2. The Psychology Behind  the Origin of Popular Gods and Goddesses                                 

3. Psychology Behind the Creation of the Mythological Gods and Goddesses

4. The Psychology Behind the Origin of Tantric Deities

5. The Psychology Behind the Origin of the Vedic Gods and Goddesses

6. Idolatry and the Psychology Behind It

7. Parama Puruïa is Firm and All-pervading

Part Twelve

8. How to Find the Lord 

9. The Birth-right of All

10. The Only Cult

11. Shortening the Radius 

12. The Starting Point and the Last Point

13. Dance, Mudrá and Tantra

14. The Supreme Witness and the Great Thief

15. Names of the Lord 

16. A Purely Personal Entity 

17. He Knows His Duty

18. Parama Puruïa, Not Scriptures 

19. The Coming of Táraka Brahma

20. Two Hundred Mirrors

        21. The Goal of Human Ideation

22. One Should Know Everything

23. The Four Kinds of Approach

24. Beyond Temporary Experience

25. You Should Do Accordingly 

26. Shiva’s Seven Secrets

27. Dances and the Path of Vidyá

28. What Are You?

29. From the Physical Stratum to the Apex 

30. Social Animals and Friends

31. Puòya All Twenty-Four Hours 

32. The Chance to Be One with Him

33. An Expression Is Never Alone 

34. The Value of Dance

35. Lord Buddha’s Cardinal Principles

36. Select Your Object Very Carefully

37. Everything Comes From Something

38. Making the Man Universal

39. The Real Value of the Human Entity

40. Permanent Shelter

41. Towards the Noumenal Entity