How Long to Read UNDERSTANDING & PRACTICE OF PARAMA-JNANA, THE ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE: A SYNOPSIS

How Long Does it Take to Read UNDERSTANDING & PRACTICE OF PARAMA-JNANA, THE ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE: A SYNOPSIS?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 21 minutes to read UNDERSTANDING & PRACTICE OF PARAMA-JNANA, THE ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE: A SYNOPSIS by C?rucandra D?sa (Chandrakant P. Giri, Ph.D.)

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Some 25 years ago, I had been struggling to receive spiritual initiation from a would-be diksha-guru for over three years, but he kept repeating that I was not ready yet. Just about that time (April 1994), I suffered what turned out to be a near-fatal heart attack during a lunch break at my FDA office. They rushed me into the emergency where I underwent triple heart bypass surgery. Three major arteries in my heart had ~98-100% blockages. One of these is the one commonly referred to by cardiologists as a “widow-maker!” Suffices to say that I could have suffered a massive heart attack, but for some divine intervention, I probably received another life. That incident alarmed me to seek spiritual initiation from my spiritual master, but I did not have much hope for that possibility. Based on my meagre scriptural knowledge at the time (Ante Narayana Smiti), I took refuge in whatever intelligence the Lord had endowed me. How do I attract Guru Maharaja’s attention to my cause? My intense greediness/eagerness [referred to as laulyam in sanskrit] initiated prompted me to study his mood using my intelligence. Through Krsna, we get introduced to our prospective guru, and thru Guru only, we attain Krsna. Thereby I figured out how he served his guru. His pranama-mantra happens to be “prabhup?dasya s?hitya? yat prak???ya vitirya?ca” Prabhupada ordered him to renounce this lucrative job of being a general manager of the Pepsi cola company, get married to a devotee woman even though he did not want to marry, return to India, and translate his books into several regional languages, and then distribute in India and abroad. All these he did in the prime of his youth when he was in Canada. That is when the idea flashed in my mind to write this essay on Absolute Knowledge despite my limited knowledge of Bhagavad-Gita at the time. I gathered enough courage to submit that essay with a degree of apprehension at his lotus feet. My would-be spiritual master was so pleased with it that not only did he invest the time out of his preaching schedule to read this synopsis written by an absolute novice like me, but he also initiated me within a month in our Potomac Temple in the suburb of Maryland, USA, on Lord Nrsimhadeva’s Appearance Day (May 25, 1997). Moreover, he gave me an order at my initiation, which was even more significant. I paraphrase it here: “Carucandra, I want you to learn the Gaudiya scriptures and then teach others.” This year, I would celebrate a silver jubilee to that fateful occasion in my spiritual life. And to this day, the divine couple has mercifully allowed me to keep my word to my Guru. Carrying out his order remains the very mission of my life balance.

How long is UNDERSTANDING & PRACTICE OF PARAMA-JNANA, THE ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE: A SYNOPSIS?

UNDERSTANDING & PRACTICE OF PARAMA-JNANA, THE ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE: A SYNOPSIS by C?rucandra D?sa (Chandrakant P. Giri, Ph.D.) is 81 pages long, and a total of 20,331 words.

This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 25% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read UNDERSTANDING & PRACTICE OF PARAMA-JNANA, THE ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE: A SYNOPSIS Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 51 minutes to read UNDERSTANDING & PRACTICE OF PARAMA-JNANA, THE ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE: A SYNOPSIS aloud.

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UNDERSTANDING & PRACTICE OF PARAMA-JNANA, THE ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE: A SYNOPSIS is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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