Learn to Live Volume 1&2: Swami Jagadatmananda.

We live in momentous times. This is the best of times, and perhaps, this is also the worst. On the one hand, the marvelous advance of science and technology is showering on our comforts and luxuries galore, undreamt of a century ago. We communicate right across the world in a second, see what is happening in continents away, travel to the moon, tap an infinitude of information via the Internet, are rid of many fatal diseases and have a much longer life expectancy. This is the obverse of the coin, the bright side. The reverse of the coin, however, is terribly grim. Mindless violence stalks the world. Crime rules the roost. The exploitation of the 'have-nots' by the 'haves' is terrifying. At all levels, shameless corruption has become a way of life. Over our heads dangles the Damocles sword of the nuclear bomb, and the unwitting press of a button by a moron may wipe humanity off the face of the earth. Peace of mind has become a cruel joke. Caught in this whirlpool, it is the rising generation that is most affected. Youth has immense courage, is full of optimism and is sensitive to noble ideas and ideals. But they will not stand sermons. They have 'to be taught as if you taught them not and things unknown proposed as things forgot'. Swami Jagadatmananda's book does just this. A senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order, and currently the Head of the center in Shillong, the swami has moved with and guided youths in many places in India and abroad with great success. His book Badukalu Kaliyiri in Kannada received a very warm welcome and more than a lakh of copies of it were sold. An English version published by the Ramakrishna Math under the Title "Learn To Live" has instantly succeeded in reaching out to lakhs of Readers young and old alike.

Language: English