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The Joy of Being

by Mark Kumara with Sanat Kumara

285 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-2799; ISBN 1-4120-4991-1; US$24.99, C$31.24, EUR20.30, £14.07

This is a book of profound spiritual guidance. It is a book with a powerful new message of hope for the world. When reading it you might find yourself tingling all over. It has the ring of truth about it.

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About the Book

This is a rare, beautiful, book of profound spiritual guidance. It has a new and timely message of hope for the world. Author, Mark Kumara, who lives in Western Australia and runs a meditation and healing centre, credits the book to Sanat Kumara, his higher self, who, he says, made himself known to him in a vision, informing him he was a member of the Earth Council, and telling him to call himself Kumara. Compassion, a sense of humour, and a healthy dose of common sense, shines through this book. It addresses everything you might like to know about life on earth, its meaning, its purpose, who you really are - and where you are going. Sanat Kumara unravels the true meaning of love, and relationships, piercing not a few misconceptions along the way that may startle you.

It has the rare distinciton of being written in a way that Westerners can follow. The insights are inspirational and there are simple exercises given to help you realise your own light within yourself.

It unveils the truth behind all religions, revealing the mystery of God, in a clear and succinct manner, without sentimentality and without cant. Sanat Kumara clearly states that death is a total illusion and that joy is the reality of existence. His words pierce the fog surrounding the longing of humanity for something greater that itself and the part religions have played. He gets to grips with the paradox of the God within and the God without, with the Christian Trinity, and new age teachers.

This is no mean achievement, giving this book an appeal to new age seekers as well as members of established churches because it has much in it for both. Its message is universal. It pushes back boundaries and powerfully enjoins the reader to examine his or her beliefs, whilst, at the same time, honouring the fundamental truth of a loving universe.

Above all, this is a book for those who might dare to believe the God is within themselves, as themselves. It is a book with a powerful message: reading it, you might find yourself tingling all over. It has the ring of truth about it.

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About the Author

Mark Kumara, born Mark Oliver in the south of England, lives in Western Australia where he runs a meditation and healing centre. He credits his book The Joy of Being to his higher self, Sanat Kumara, who, he says, made himself known to him in a vision, informing him he was a member of the Earth Council and telling him to call himself Kumara.

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Excerpts

Indeed, I say to you, your only purpose in being here on earth in physical bodies is to transform these bodies into bodies of light. You may relax your anxieties concerning all other works. Is this not a relief!

To all of you, who, at the dawning of another age, find yourselves embattled by a thousand things to do, is this not an immense relief?

My beloveds, to help others discover their own joy within them is the best way to reveal your own. This way, I tell you, is the swiftest and least painful way of reaching your goal, and, in the meantime, is of great service to myself which is yourself in all our manifested forms.

I am a great economist of energy. I use it not wastefully or to deliberately prolong for you the reaching of your goal. It is never in my consideration deliberately to make your path hard for you or to put tests your way. On the contrary, I constantly am smoothing your path for you for it is the nature of the human ego ever to seek diffi culties where none exist but for it.

When you serve the life in others and set it free, you are freeing yourself. And, when you free yourself, to that extent the other becomes free, also. Indeed, we are One.

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Joy is a feeling of aliveness and happiness. It is a most misunderstood feeling because human beings feel so guilty about feeling happy. There is an ingrained suspicion that happiness comes, inevitably, at the expense somewhere down the line, of a balancing bout of misery.

Yet, happiness, truly, is joy when it is not tied to the vacillating mood swings of cause and effect, when it is not, in other words, a result of ego reaction.

Little can be said of joy; so again I am trying to do the impossible; for joy is the very nature of god and who can say anything of god? A god to be read about in a book, to be preached about, to be theorised about, to be sacrificed to, to be prayed to, to be worshipped, is a god at arm's length: a very poor sort of god to have about! But a god to feel, to love, to have as friend, to experience within yourself as yourself: now, that's a god!

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