About the Book

All over the world meditation is now becoming a practice with increasing interest. Meditation is to seek the ultimate truth in oneself. This book shows universal characteristics by understanding our own personality with the sciences of psychology, physiology (especially neurophysiology) and philosophy, namely Vedanta (Eastern philosophy).

Meditation, when practiced regularly and consistently, makes the seeker go through many changes or stages. This book offers the “assistance in taming the wandering mind during the practice of meditation”. The book is like a teaching manual with exercises throughout the text.

The book is divided into sections. Each section must be mastered with its own set of exercises and questions. Once the seeker is comfortable with the section being studied, the seeker can proceed on to the next section. At the end of the book, the seeker will devise his/her own method of meditation to reach to the Ultimate Truth and annul the ego.

The author tells the reader that her method of compiling the book is to address the “serious seeker” and that each chapter is a “stepping stone to a specific measured growth”.

Reviews

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Skillfully combined modern knowledge with ancient wisdom.

A Spiritual Journey is a meticulously researched book, which places meditation as a highly evolved science, without the myths, that today, surround it. This book is an authoritative text which combines ancient wisdom with the needs of today?s people. Chakraburtty has successfully shown the serious student the art of meditation. Through exercises in this book and her own personal journey in the field of meditation, the author gives an intellectual and intuitive method in this era that beckons for balance.

--Dr. Kshama Metre: Project Director, Chinmaya Primary Health Care Training Centre; Sidhbari, Himachal Pradesh, India

The most satisfying of philosophies are those in which religious and cultural disparities are dispelled in the light of Truth. The universal quest for the source of life and the purpose of existence is met and revealed in A Spiritual Journey. Sneh Lata Chakraburtty?s volume on Vedanta ? juxtaposed with the world of medicine, science and scripture ? simplifies and demystifies the process of self discover, offering a practical step-by-step guide to spiritual unfoldment.

--Lea Harper: author of All That Saves Us and Shadow Crossing

The book is a masterpiece. Dr. Chakraburtty has worked with her spiritual teacher, Swami Chinmayananda for over 25 years. A Spiritual Journey is both her personal experience of spiritual development and an in depth text of Eastern philosophy, specifically, Vedanta. Sneh Chakraburtty is truly generous in giving us so much information and instruction on how to transform ourselves through self-mastery. We can reach a life of inner tranquility, despite outer circumstances.

-- The Omega Centre: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The story of how a Canadian doctor became a student of a man who has been described as the greatest Indian philosopher of the 20 th century is a fascinating tale in and of itself. Writing the book A Spiritual Journey began as a way of sharing with her daughters her 30 year spiritual evolution, but evolved into a meditation guide, including some of the letter and words her spiritual teacher shared with her and her family over the years.

-- Sheryl Loueks: writer for County Life in Haliburton , ON Canada .

About the Author

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Sneh Chakraburtty is a retired physician who lives in the Halliburton Area (in Ontario, Canada). Her love for writing occurred at a very young age. In her mid-fifties, she began to seriously write in order to publish. Her first book, A Spiritual Journey, was published in 2000. She is a philanthropist and loves to study Philosophy.

In 1992, Dr. Chakraburtty completed a volunteer management and fundraising course and began collaborating with many NGO's (Non-government organizations) to get grants from CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency). This has helped Chinmaya Mission Halton receive Canadian funding for The Rural Health Care and Development Project in Sidhabari, India. The project is now in its 13th year of getting funds from CIDA and has helped the lives of many women and children in that area.

Dr. Sneh Chakraburtty was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She is a graduate from the Royal College in Dublin, Ireland. She has worked in East Africa as a Family Physician. While in Canada, she worked as an Emergentologist until 2002. During her years in Emergency Medicine, she compiled and published an interactive CD-ROM called The ?Comprehensive Desktop Medical Reference Guide?. She has also been involved on her own personal journey in Hindu Philosophy and it is in this area that she has written five books, two of which are currently being published.

To learn more about Dr. Sneh Chakraburtty's book A Spiritual Journey as well as her other publications, please visit her website.

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