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Un nido de paz para la muerte: Prácticas compasivas del cuidado físico, emocional y espiritual de una doula de la muerte
by Anne-Marie Keppel• Comparte prácticas para calmar las emociones, técnicas de respiración para reducir la ansiedad y el dolor, formas de reducir el estrés durante el proceso de muerte activa y técnicas para cuidar físicamente a los moribundos• Explora ceremonias y pautas de límites energéticos, reiki y técnicas de apoyo ancestrales, además de cuidados a base de hierbas para nutrir y curar en el aspecto espiritual• Presenta métodos de autocuidado para sobrellevar el duelo, ideas de &“cosas que hacer&” cuando no hay nada que hacer, prácticas para contemplar su propia mortalidad y orientación para hablar con los niños sobre la muerte y el morir• Ganador del premio &“IPPY&” de editor independiente de 2020Así como podemos preparar un nido para alguien que está a punto de dar a luz, también podemos preparar con amor un nido para alguien que está muriendo.En esta guía práctica y compasiva, la educadora de doulas de la muerte Anne-Marie Keppel incorpora técnicas antiguas y modernas, prácticas de atención plena y apoyo a base de hierbas para mostrar cómo cualquiera puede cuidar a los moribundos, ya sea en casa, en un hospicio o incluso en la UCI. Ella desmitifica el proceso de muerte mientras explica lo que atraviesa el cuerpo durante el final de la vida y presenta prácticas para calmar las emociones y otras formas de reducir el estrés y la ansiedad durante el proceso de muerte activa. La autora proporciona técnicas para cuidar a los moribundos físicamente, incluyendo métodos para ayudar a las personas postradas en cama. Comparte ceremonias y pautas de los límites energéticos, reiki y técnicas de apoyo ancestrales, además de cuidados a base de hierbas para nutrir y curar en el aspecto espiritual.Anne-Marie también brinda apoyo a los cuidadores y seres queridos por medio de métodos de autocuidado para superar el duelo, ideas sobre &“cosas que hacer&” cuando no hay nada que hacer y prácticas de atención plena para contemplar la propia mortalidad. También ofrece visualizaciones y técnicas para hablar con los niños sobre la muerte y el morir.
Niente di personale: Vedere oltre l’illusione di un sé separato
by NirmalaNiente di personale offre una guida delicata e chiara per scoprire la verità soggiacente della vostra natura definitiva. Gli insegnamenti non duali e dell’Advaita si prefiggono di scoprire la verità. Questa verità non è un dogma che si possa studiare: è una verità della vita, la verità di chi siete davvero. Questa verità si scopre, non si impara. Si scopre chiedendosi sinceramente: “Chi sono io?”. Rispondendo a questa domanda, scoprite che chi siete non ha niente a che fare con le vostre autoimmagini o i vostri ruoli e tutto ciò che fate delle esperienze che vivete. Ciò che scoprite è che chi pensate di essere è solo un pensiero! E oltre questo pensiero c’è un enorme mistero, un’esperienza del nulla, che è la vostra vera natura. “Niente di personale” vi conduce all’esperienza della vostra vera natura e vi aiuta ad esplorarne la profondità. Mediante esposizioni, domande e dialoghi, vi porta ad un luogo di realizzazione della verità: siete la consapevolezza spaziosa in cui tutto compare, compresi i vostri pensieri e i vostri sentimenti. I vostri pensieri e i vostri desideri non vi definiscono, ma compaiono semplicemente nella coscienza, insieme a tutto il resto. La coscienza è chi siete. “Niente di personale” vi offre una guida delicata e costante che vi aiuterà a vedere la verità soggiacente della vostra natura definitiva. In questa concise raccolta di conferenze e dialoghi satsang, siete invitati ad onorare l’amore illimitato che è la vostra vera natura e a godere della dolce ricchezza che viene rivelata quando concedete a questa verità la vostra assoluta attenzione. Dalla prefazione di Adyashanti, maestro spirituale e autore di “Emptiness Dancing”: “La bellezza di questa raccolta di conferenze e dialoghi di Nirmala risiede nel fatto che copre buona parte dello spettro del risveglio spirituale, dall’esperienza iniziale della vera natura di ognuno fino alle sfide pratiche che s
Nietzsche para estresados: 99 píldoras de filosofía radical contra las preocupaciones (Genios para la vida cotidiana #Volumen)
by Allan PercyEn Nietzsche para estresados, de la serie «Genios para la vida cotidiana», Allan Percy imparte un divertido y revelador curso de filosofía para el día a día basado en el pensamiento de Friedrich W. Nietzsche. Este libro práctico reúne 99 máximas del genio alemán y su aplicación práctica a todos los entornos y situaciones del día a día. Tanto para el mundo de la empresa como para el ámbito personal, la filosofía de Nietzsche es altamente efectiva para hallar salida a cualquier encrucijada. Cada capítulo se abre con un aforismo, seguido de una interpretación en clave práctica de Allan Percy, que servirá de ayuda para tomar decisiones, recuperar el aliento, enderezar el rumbo perdido y relativizar la importancia de las cosas que nos suceden durante la jornada. Los lectores han dicho...«Una obra para leer antes de dormir o cuando queremos relajarnos.» «Un libro muy bueno, ya estés habituado o no a leer filosofía. Está dividido en capítulos cortos con frases de Nietzsche para el día a día y se hace muy ameno de leer.»
Night Bloomers: 12 Principles for Thriving in Adversity
by Michelle PearceWhat if there are people, just like some flowers, who require the dark to bloom? When we are plunged into the dark and difficult times in life, one of three things can happen next: the darkness can destroy us; it can leave us relatively unchanged; or it can help to transform us. In this hope-inspiring guide, clinical psychologist, Michelle Pearce, PhD, provides practical tools and wisdom for transforming and thriving in adversity and loss. Just as some flowers require the dark to bloom, there are some people who do their best growing and becoming during dark and challenging times. With a compassionate voice, Pearce shares her clinical expertise, her own journey through the dark, and inspiring stories of other Night Bloomers to help individuals learn how to heal and transform their lives not in spite of their difficult times, but because of them. “Reading Night Bloomers is like having a dear friend right alongside you for support when most needed. Through stories, strategies, and writing prompts, Pearce provides powerful tools for building resilience, confidence, and joy. She reminds us that like plants, we don’t bloom just once, as she gently, masterfully paves a path for us to enjoy a lifetime of growing and blossoming. A ‘must-read’ for anyone seeking some light in the darkness.”--Caroline Welch, CEO and cofounder of the Mindsight Institute and author of The Gift of Presence “A gem of a book! Michelle Pearce has written an enlightening guide for anyone trying to find the path through a dark time in life. Through the wisdom gleaned from psychological research and practice and the lessons learned from her own personal encounter with pain and loss, Pearce points the way to growth and transformation when hope is in short supply. Down-to-earth, compassionate, and inspirational, Night Bloomers should be on everyone's bookshelf.”--Kenneth I. Pargament, Ph. D. author of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy “Dr. Pearce’s Night Bloomers is an essential guide on how to shift your perspective to find meaning in the mess that accompanies the crises in our lives. Filled with practical wisdom and easy to follow exercises, this book is sure to serve as a roadmap through and out of the darkness for all who find themselves on the journey of transformation.”--Michelle Bailey, MD, author of Parenting Your Stressed Child “Michelle Pearce, Ph.D. is uniquely qualified to teach readers how to thrive in the face of grief in a way that captivates and illuminates. Night Bloomers is a therapeutic tool for healing based upon the transformative power of rewriting our stories of loss. Night Bloomers inspires readers to use sorrow as the soil in which to grow something beautiful.”--Laura J. Oliver, author of The Story Within “In Night Bloomers, Dr. Pearce offers a very practical, evidence based, journaling approach to productively cope with the challenges of adversity. She uses her own personal adversity story and professional experiences as a psychologist to clearly outline steps and strategies to transform difficulties into transformation towards healing and resilience. A must read for many trying to find a way out of the dark night of the soul and into some much needed light.”--Thomas G. Plante, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor and Director, Applied Spirituality Institute, Santa Clara University “Deeply insightful, heartfelt, practical, and wise. Night Bloomers is an indispensable resource for anyone who needs healing. Pearce does an eloquent and powerful job shifting our perspective on adversity and equipping us with the necessary tools to bloom in the dark. Anyone who has been through loss, grief, or times of adversityR
Night Driving: Notes from a Prodigal Soul
by Chad BirdJourneys that begin in brokenness rarely follow a straight road to healing. There are twists and turns—and setbacks—on the path of repentance.Night Driving tells the story of a pastor and seminary professor whose moral failures destroyed his marriage and career, left his life in ruins, and sent him spiraling into a decade-long struggle against God. Forced to fight the demons of his past in the cab of the semi-truck he drove at night through the Texas oil fields, Chad Bird slowly began to limp toward grace and healing. Drawing on his expertise as an Old Testament scholar, Bird weaves together his own story, the biblical story, and the stories of fellow prodigals as he peels back the layers of denial, anger, addiction, and grief to help readers come face-to-face both with their own identities and with the God who alone can heal them.
Night Driving: Notes from a Prodigal Soul
by Mark Galli Chad BirdJourneys that begin in brokenness rarely follow a straight road to healing. There are twists and turns—and setbacks—on the path of repentance.Night Driving tells the story of a pastor and seminary professor whose moral failures destroyed his marriage and career, left his life in ruins, and sent him spiraling into a decade-long struggle against God. Forced to fight the demons of his past in the cab of the semi-truck he drove at night through the Texas oil fields, Chad Bird slowly began to limp toward grace and healing. Drawing on his expertise as an Old Testament scholar, Bird weaves together his own story, the biblical story, and the stories of fellow prodigals as he peels back the layers of denial, anger, addiction, and grief to help readers come face-to-face both with their own identities and with the God who alone can heal them.
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
by Kay Redfield JamisonFrom the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five.An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself. Weaving together a historical and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays on individual suicides, she brings not only her remarkable compassion and literary skill but also all of her knowledge and research to bear on this devastating problem. This is a book that helps us to understand the suicidal mind, to recognize and come to the aid of those at risk, and to comprehend the profound effects on those left behind. It is critical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand this tragic epidemic.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
by Kay Redfield JamisonFrom the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five.An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself. Weaving together a historical and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays on individual suicides, she brings not only her remarkable compassion and literary skill but also all of her knowledge and research to bear on this devastating problem. This is a book that helps us to understand the suicidal mind, to recognize and come to the aid of those at risk, and to comprehend the profound effects on those left behind. It is critical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand this tragic epidemic.
The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief
by Liz TichenorCalled "such a sad, tough story, but finally so life-affirming, filled with spirit and love" by Anne Lamott, this is a raw and intensely affecting memoir by a young priest about loss of a child, its grief and its aftermath, and the hard-won joy that can follow.Liz Tichenor has taken her newborn son, five weeks old, to the doctor, from a cabin on the shores of Lake Tahoe. She is sent home to her husband and two-year-old daughter with the baby, who is pronounced "fine" by an urgent care physician. Six hours later, the baby dies in their bed. Less than a year and a half before, Tichenor's mother jumped from a building and killed herself after a long struggle with alcoholism. As a very young Episcopal priest, Tichenor has to "preach the Good News," to find faith where there is no hope, but she realizes these terrible parts of her own life will join her in the pulpit. The Night Lake is the story of finding a way forward through tragedies that seem like they might be beyond surviving and of carving out space for the slow labor of learning to live again, in grief.
Night Light: A Book of Nighttime Meditations (Hazelden Meditations)
by Amy E DeanNight Light's quotations, reflections, and simple prayers ease the loneliness, fear, and anxiety that can burden our nights so we can wake up and meet each new day refreshed and inspired.Remember how comforting it felt, as a child, to fall asleep with a night-light glowing in the dark? Our Night Light is a collection of meditations that helps us remember how our Higher Power is like a comforting, ever-present light in our lives. These nightly readings can help us learn to trust the spiritual light within us for strength, comfort, and guidance.
Night Shift
by Debi Gliori&“Scottish author and illustrator Debi Gliori's small but mighty picture book, Night Shift, is an eye-opening look at depression.&”—BookPage"A poignant, empathetic and ultimately hopeful book."—School Library Journal "By giving depression physical dimension, Gliori diffuses some of its strange, persistent power.&“—Publishers Weekly"Debi Gliori has given us all a powerful, and beautiful, gift with Night Shift."—Jay Asher, author of Thirteen Reasons Why and Piper, his first graphic novel, which he coauthored"It's a masterpiece.&”—David Walliams, bestselling children's author From beloved author and illustrator Debi Gliori (No Matter What) comes Night Shift, a groundbreaking lushly illustrated picture book based on Gliori's own personal history with depression.Fighting dragons is one way of fighting depression. This book is another. Through stunning black and white illustration and deceptively simple text, author and illustrator Debi Gliori provides a fascinating and absorbing portrait of depression and hope in Night Shift, a moving picture book about a young girl haunted by dragons. The young girl battles the dragons using 'night skills': skills that give her both the ability to survive inside her own darkness and the knowledge that nothing—not even long, dark nights filled with monsters—will last forever. Drawn from Gliori's own experiences and struggles with depression, the book concludes with a moving author's note explaining how depression has affected her and how she continues to cope. Gliori hopes that by sharing her own experience she can help others who suffer from depression, and to find that subtle shift that will show the way out. A brave and powerful book, give Night Shift to dragon fighters young and old, and any reader who needs to know they're not alone.
The Night Side of Nature: Or Ghosts And Ghost Seers (The Paranormal)
by Catherine CroweContents: dweller in the temple; waking and sleeping, and how the dweller in the temple sometimes looks abroad; allegorical dreams, presentiment, etc. ; warnings; double dreaming and trance; wraiths; dopplegangers or doubles; apparitions; future that awaits us; power of will; troubled spirits; haunted houses; spectral lights and apparitions attached to certain families; apparitions seeking the prayers of the living; the poltergeist of the Germans and possession; miscellaneous phenomena.
The Night Sky: An astronomers guide to the night sky and the universe (Usborne Spotter's Guides)
by Nigel HenbestDiscover the wonders of the Universe with this indispensable guide. The Night Sky is chock full of information explaining what, when and how to observe space and understanding the night sky.Not only accessible, but also invaluable, this is the perfect practical guide for both budding and seasoned astronomers, an easy introduction to astronomy and a useful resource for more experienced stargazers.
The Night Sky: An astronomers guide to the night sky and the universe (Usborne Spotter's Guides)
by Nigel HenbestDiscover the wonders of the Universe with this indispensable guide. The Night Sky is chock full of information explaining what, when and how to observe space and understanding the night sky.Not only accessible, but also invaluable, this is the perfect practical guide for both budding and seasoned astronomers, an easy introduction to astronomy and a useful resource for more experienced stargazers.
Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods
by Mariana AlessandriA philosopher&’s personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly humanUnder the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can even look like mental disorders. The self-help industry, determined to sell us the promise of a brighter future, can sometimes leave us feeling ashamed that we are not more grateful, happy, or optimistic. Night Vision invites us to consider a different approach to life, one in which we stop feeling bad about feeling bad.In this powerful and disarmingly intimate book, Existentialist philosopher Mariana Alessandri draws on the stories of a diverse group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophers and writers to help us see that our suffering is a sign not that we are broken but that we are tender, perceptive, and intelligent. Thinkers such as Audre Lorde, María Lugones, Miguel de Unamuno, C. S. Lewis, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Søren Kierkegaard sat in their anger, sadness, and anxiety until their eyes adjusted to the dark. Alessandri explains how readers can cultivate &“night vision&” and discover new sides to their painful moods, such as wit and humor, closeness and warmth, and connection and clarity.Night Vision shows how, when we learn to embrace the dark, we begin to see these moods—and ourselves—as honorable, dignified, and unmistakably human.
Night Vision: A Field Guide to Your Dreams
by Theresa CheungNight Vision is a visual field guide to the richly rewarding art of dream interpretation. Have you ever dreamt that you were flying? That you missed your flight? Or that you got a radical new haircut? Keep a copy of this beautifully illustrated book by your bedside table to help you understand what your dreams are trying to tell you.First you need to learn the techniques, including how to get a good night's sleep, how to recall your dreams and understand the symbolic language through which they unfold. Then you can start interpreting: over 50 common dream themes are explained with accompanying illustrations. Understand what your mind is telling you when you're asleep, and you'll unlock your true potential when you're awake.
Night Vision: A Field Guide to Your Dreams
by Theresa CheungNight Vision is a visual field guide to the richly rewarding art of dream interpretation. Have you ever dreamt that you were flying? That you missed your flight? Or that you got a radical new haircut? Keep a copy of this beautifully illustrated book by your bedside table to help you understand what your dreams are trying to tell you.First you need to learn the techniques, including how to get a good night's sleep, how to recall your dreams and understand the symbolic language through which they unfold. Then you can start interpreting: over 50 common dream themes are explained with accompanying illustrations. Understand what your mind is telling you when you're asleep, and you'll unlock your true potential when you're awake.
Night with a Perfect Stranger: The Conversation that Changes Everything
by David GregorySix years ago, businessman Nick Cominsky encountered Jesus the old-fashioned way-in a face-to-face meeting. And the Christian life seemed a breeze . . . for a while. But now, having done everything he knows to grow spiritually, he wonders where his closeness with Jesus has gone. Burned out and hopeless, Nick wails his complaints to God during a late-night interstate trip. Then suddenly he runs out of gas-and finds Jesus along the roadside carrying a gas can.
The Nightingale Gene: Lessons to Living a Balanced Life & Having the Nursing Career of Your Dreams
by Jayne Van BruntThe first in a trilogy highlighting caregiving as a demanding, yet rewarding, profession that forces work-life imbalance, The Nightingale Gene provides lessons for those who make caring for others a priority over taking care of themselves.By the year 2020, the United States will experience a shortage of more than 1 million nurses as baby boomers in the profession retire and hospitals struggle to keep up with supply and demand as the boomer-aging population stresses the already overtaxed staff. Nurses account for more than 75% of the employees in a hospital, but new nurses continue to seek other less stressful careers, remaining in their positions an average of only 6 months, citing poor management and burnout as reasons for leaving. The profession gives nurses both high reward and intense stress. The demand to find, train, and retain quality staff has never been more urgent than now.The Nightingale Gene provides nurses and healthcare leaders with lessons that address the obvious recruiting and retention demands they face today, focusing first on their own issues and then trickling down to staff. Jayne Van Brunt addresses why nurses and healthcare leaders are wired to hover over everyone else while ignoring their own desires, featuring themes of self-help, self-love, and forgiveness while presenting an easy formula to implement and intentional work-life plan to make nursing and other caregiving professions rewarding again. Written in lyrical fashion, The Nightingale Gene tells the story of one woman&’s transformational journey and the lessons she learned along her way back to living in balance.
The Nightmare Dictionary: Discover What Causes Nightmares and What Your Bad Dreams Mean
by Media AdamsDecode your darkest dreams!Whether you're spitting out teeth, plummeting from a ten-story building, or standing in a public place completely naked, nightmares always leave you in a cold sweat, wondering what just happened and what it all means.The Nightmare Dictionary helps you unlock the mystery behind your bad dreams. This book features fascinating interpretations for more than 300 of the most common nightmare images, as well as information about the different types of dreams. From spiders and illness to broken bones and hurricanes, you'll not only figure out what these haunting dream symbols mean, but also why they keep you up at night.With The Nightmare Dictionary, you'll discover all the eerie warnings, premonitions, and fears that are constantly brewing in your dreams.
The Nightmare Dictionary
by Adams MediaDecode your darkest dreams! Whether you're spitting out teeth, plummeting from a ten-story building, or standing in a public place completely naked, nightmares always leave you in a cold sweat, wondering what just happened and what it all means. The Nightmare Dictionary helps you unlock the mystery behind your bad dreams. This book features fascinating interpretations for more than 300 of the most common nightmare images, as well as information about the different types of dreams. From spiders and illness to broken bones and hurricanes, you'll not only figure out what these haunting dream symbols mean, but also why they keep you up at night. With The Nightmare Dictionary, you'll discover all the eerie warnings, premonitions, and fears that are constantly brewing in your dreams.
Nightmares: The Dark Side of Dreams and Dreaming
by Stase MichaelsA fascinating look at how your wiser, inner self sends you dreams that target your anxieties yet hold positive messages to guide you through obstacles. What causes our worst nightmares? Stase Michaels applies her signature out-of-the-box perspective on dreams that shake us out of sleep and mirror our real-life worries, breaking down their symbolism, trajectory, and unspoken logic. She supplies the tools for nuanced readings of each nightmare, as well as fascinating thoughts on nightmares of trauma victims and ones that occur in troubling times. She also offers strategies for shaking yourself free of recurring nightmares and preventing your daily anxieties from translating into invasive bad dreams.
Nighttime Devotional for Teen Girls: 5-Minute Guided Daily Reflections
by Teresa Hartnett Catherine HartnettEmpower teen girls to end each day with God's wisdom Being a teenager can be tough, but God is there to support every teen girl and help her become the amazing woman she was meant to be. This book of devotions makes it simple for teen girls to spend a moment with their faith at the end of every day, so they can prepare for the day ahead with a sense of purpose and belief. And the best part? It only takes 5 minutes. This top choice in Christian books for teen girls helps them: Reflect on their day—Before they go to sleep at night, teen girls will take a moment to consider how they can live up to their full potential, follow their dreams, and grow into a person they're proud of. Explore Scripture—Find out how the Lord's Word can help girls through the challenges they'll face with school, friends, relationships, and more. Setting intentions—Encourage teens to grow their strength and faith a little every day with a simple goal at the end of each devotion. Help your teen girl make God part of her routine and learn to live strong in her faith with the Nighttime Devotional for Teen Girls.
Nightwatch: Alone On The Prairie With The Hutterites
by Robert RhodesWhat would compel a daily newspaper journalist, raised in an affluent family in the South, to abandon his career and embark on a spiritual odyssey that would take him, his wife, and young daughter to live among the Plain people of the prairies, the Hutterian Brethren? From 1995 to 2002, the author and his family gave up all claims to personal property, moved to Starland Colony in Minnesota, and joined the often contradictory Old World existence of the Hutterites, whose isolated farming communes stretch across the American Great Plains and the prairie provinces of Canada. In Nightwatch, the author explores the modern-day expression of Hutterianism, born amid the flames and persecution of the Reformation and transplanted in the 1870s from Russia to the western United States. This is a story not only of spiritual questioning, but an inquiry into what it is to be "strangers among strangers," looking at the inner callings that bring people together, and in some cases drive them apart. "Several months after we had moved to Starland, a period during which we had passed a long and dormant winter, seldom traveling because of the deep and smothering snow, I made a trip into the Twin Cities, about 80 miles away. Having lived so far from the rest of society, even for a few months, I felt a distinct anxiety when I found myself in downtown Minneapolis that first time, navigating the crowds and passing among buildings much taller than our colony's feed mill leg, which was the tallest object in all of Sibley County. An encounter with the homeless in Minneapolis, or the sight of a man and woman begging for money beneath an overpass while their small fire smoldered and snow drifted around them, filled me with despair and dread. Returning to our place that night, down the snow-streaked county roads, past gray dairies and mailboxes with Norwegian names, I sat in the minister's living room. I told him I was glad I had such a place to come home to, that we didn't have to live like the people in the big evil cities. David Vetter looked at me a moment and said something I did not expect: "Spoken like a true Pharisee," he said. "You've only been here a few short months, and already you're getting to be just like us."
Nijdosh Darshan Thi Nirdosh: નિજદોષ દર્શનથી નિર્દોષ
by Dada Bhagwanતમે આ જ્ઞાન (આત્મસાક્ષાત્કાર નું જ્ઞાન) મેળવશો પછી, તમારી અંદર જે કંઈપણ થઇ રહ્યું છે તેને તમે જોઈ શકશો અને પૃથ્થકરણ કરી શકશો. આ તમારી અંદર નું પૃથ્થકરણ એ વિશ્વદર્શન ના જ્ઞાન પર પ્રકાશ પાડતું ક્ષેત્ર છે. સંપૂર્ણ વિશ્વદર્શન નું જ્ઞાન નહિ પણ તેનો અંશ કહી શકાય. તમે ગમતા અને અણગમતા બન્ને વિચારો જોઈ શકશો. સારા વિચારો પ્રત્યે રાગ નહીં અને ખરાબ વિચારો પ્રત્યે દ્વેષ નહીં. શું સારું છે અને શું ખરાબ છે એ જોવાની તમારે જરૂર નથી કારણકે એ તમારા વશ માં નથી. જ્ઞાનીઓ (આત્મજ્ઞાન પામેલા) શું જોતાં હશે? તેઓ જગત ને નિર્દોષ જુએ છે. જ્ઞાની જાણે છે કે આ જગત માં જે કંઈપણ થઇ રહ્યું છે તે પહેલાં જે ચાર્જ કરેલું તેનું ડીસ્ચાર્જ છે. તેઓ જાણે છે કે જગત દોષિત છે જ નહિ. તમને અપમાન મળે કે તમારા ઉપરી સાથે ઝગડો થાય તે તમારા પૂર્વ કર્મ (પ્રારબ્ધ,ભાગ્ય) નો ડિસ્ચાર્જ છે, તમારા ઉપરી તો ફક્ત નિમિત્ત છે. આ જગત માં કોઈ નો દોષ કાઢી ન શકાય.તમને જે બધી ભૂલો દેખાય છે તે તમારી પોતાની જ છે. તમારી જ મોટી અને નાની ભૂલો છે. જ્ઞાનીપુરુષ ની કૃપા થી નાની ભૂલો નાશ થાય છે. જે વ્યક્તિ પાસે આત્મજ્ઞાન (આધ્યાત્મિક ઉઘાડ) નથી હોતું, તેને હમેશાં બીજા ના દોષ દેખાય છે પણ પોતાની ભૂલ દેખાતી નથી. આ પુસ્તક માં પરમ પૂજ્ય દાદાશ્રી (આધ્યાત્મિક વિજ્ઞાની) ની દોષ રહિત દ્રષ્ટિ મેળવવા ની સમજણ, એની રીત, એનું મહત્વ અને એને ટકાવી રાખવા ની રીત રજુ કરવા માં આવી છે. જયારે તમે આત્મજ્ઞાન મેળવો છો ત્યારે તમે તમારા મન, વચન, કાયા પ્રત્યે પક્ષપાતી નથી રહેતા. આ નિષ્પક્ષપાતીપણા થી તમને તમારા પોતાના દોષો દેખાય છે અને તમે તમારી અંદર શાંતિ નો અનુભવ કરી શકો છો.