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Om Swami, 1979-
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Om Swami, 1979-
Monks -- India -- Biography.
Mystics -- India -- Anecdotes.
Hindus -- India -- Anecdotes.
Businesspeople -- Australia -- Biography.
Information technology -- Australia -- Biography.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Spiritual life -- Hinduism.
Spiritual biography.
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Om Swami, 1979-
Om Swami, 1979-
Monks -- India -- Biography.
Mystics -- India -- Anecdotes.
Hindus -- India -- Anecdotes.
Businesspeople -- Australia -- Biography.
Information technology -- Australia -- Biography.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Spiritual life -- Hinduism.
Spiritual biography.
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If
truth
be
told
: a
monk
's
memoir
/ Om Swami.
by
Om Swami, 1979-
Harper Element, 2015.
Call #:
294.5092 O54i
Subjects
Om Swami, 1979-
Monks -- India -- Biography.
Mystics -- India -- Anecdotes.
Hindus -- India -- Anecdotes.
Businesspeople -- Australia -- Biography.
Information technology -- Australia -- Biography.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Spiritual life -- Hinduism.
Spiritual biography.
ISBN:
9780994002747 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Monk
's
memoir
Description:
viii, 253 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
"We are a rather strange species,
if
you ask me. Our capacity to be selfless is as immense as our potential to be selfish. I saw myself as a kind person, and didn't think I had it in me to cause pain to my loved ones. Yet, when propelled by my desire, I inflicted it upon them effortlessly. One morning, I got up, got ready, went to work and did not go back home in the evening. Instead, I boarded a train to take me away from all my certainties, from the people I loved and from the wealth I owned. I no longer wanted to get up every morning, work the entire day, come home in the evening, eat my dinner and go to sleep just because everyone else was doing it. What was my individual purpose -
if
there was any? Leaving behind everything I had worked towards and abandoning everyone I had ever known, I felt indifferent towards my own past. My departure from the material world wiped away my life as I had known it. This new existence was utter nakedness; no, not in physical terms, but in being nothing, having nothing, not even an identity or a name - the life of a
monk
. It was only in this state of emptiness, as it were, that I could be filled by what I sought most desperately: a true inner life."--From the author'
s
website: omswami.com. Born in North India, Om Swami moved to Australia and became an MBA graduate and software firm owner. In 2010, he renounced his material wealth, becoming a mystic, non-traditional
monk
who now lives in the Himalayan foothills. He is the author of When All is Not Well: Depression, Sadness and Healing, a Yogic Perspective.
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Autobiographies.
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