In the first US edition of Satish Kumar's classic book, we rediscover how our spiritual and social well-being connects to that of our planet.Internationally-respected peace and environment activist Satish Kumar has been gently setting the agenda for change for over 50 years. As 350.org founder Bill McKibben says, "There is no one on the planet better-equipped to make you think and rethink how you're living and how you might change."The age of sustainability...

Among all the experiences of the Buddha, his eye-to-eye encounter with a terrorist is perhaps the most relevant and vital for those of us caught in the binds of the early 21st century.Once upon a time in northern India, there lived a violent and fearsome outcaste called Angulimala ('necklace of fingers'). He terrorised towns and villages in order to try to gain control of the state, murdering people and adding their fingers to his gruesome necklace. The Buddha set ...

Satish Kumar has held senior managerial positions and has achieved God realisation/attainment through deep Meditation. He has already written two books namely: 1. Human mind awakening and management and 2. Know yourself...your personality. He writes for the overall betterment of the mankind. Presented in the form of a story, written in meditation with God, it is a valuable and interesting reading. It can help build peaceful and happy love relationships. It will help readers take mature dec...

"A profound and accessible guide to an ecological civilization of peace, material sufficiency, and spiritual abundance for all." —David Korten, international-bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the WorldConsumerism drives the pursuit of happiness in much of the world, yet as wealth grows unhappiness abounds, compounded by the grave problems of climate change, pollution, and ecological degradation. We've now reached both an environmental and spirit...

Small World, Big Ideas collects twelve of the most inspiring and courageous activists together to share their stories and present an inspiring vision of what each of us can do to build a better world today.There's an activist in all of us, and you don't have to shout about it to be heard.And to prove it, life-long campaigner and former Jain monk Satish Kumar has invited twelve of those activists he most admires to ...

The fascinating life story of Satish Kumar – monk, peace activist, pilgrim and ecological campaigner.When he was only nine years old, Satish Kumar renounced the world and joined the wandering brotherhood of Jain monks. Dissuaded from this path by an inner voice at the age of eighteen, he became a campaigner for land reform, working to turn Gandhi's vision of a renewed India into reality.Fired by the example of Bertrand Russell, he undertook a peace pilgrima...

Consume less and celebrate more for inner peace and ecological integrityConsumerism drives the pursuit of happiness in much of the world, yet as wealth grows unhappiness abounds, compounded by the grave problems of climate change, pollution, and ecological degradation. We've now reached both an environmental and spiritual dead-end that leaves us crying out for alternatives.Elegant Simplicity provides a coherent philosophy of life that weaves togeth...

मेरी उम्र आज ६० साल ( 19th dec. २०२२) की हो गयी है भगवान् के आशीर्वाद से पिछले बिस सालों में १० लाख से ज्यादा गौ माता को अपनी टीम के साथ बचाया | बहुत संघर्ष हुआ , बहुत गौ भगतों की शाहदत हुयी | बहुत बार मुझे भी चोटे लगी, रक्त भी बहा, पर फिर भी आज तक गौ रक्षा के लिए मैं लगा हुआ हूँ क्योकि मैंने संकल्प लिया था कि अपने आखरी साँस तक मैं गौ सेवा व गौ रक्षा करता रहूंगा क्योकि मेरी माँ ने तो मुझे ६ महीने दूध पिलाया है पर गौ माता आज 60 साल तक भी दूध पीला रही है | मैं गाय को बचपन से ही प्यार करता हू...

In most stories we see what we hear. Some scenes in this story happen in us without us even knowing it. Its main purpose is not to tell someone to go like this. Doing so is not insulting anyone. The main purpose of this is our bonds. Sometimes it happen misunderstandings between both of them. Time will tell if you want to get out of that problem. This story always tells the mentality of the little ones and the greatness of the big ones.The story goes that the more connections we ha...

This book primarily focuses on the domain conditions under which a number of important classes of binary social decision rules give rise to rational social preferences. One implication of the Arrow and Gibbard theorems is that every non-oligarchic social decision rule that satisfies the condition of independence of irrelevant alternatives, a requirement crucial for the unambiguity of social choices, and the weak Pareto criterion fails to generate quasi-transitive social preferences for som...

This book focuses on the analysis of liability rules of tort law from an efficiency perspective, presenting a comprehensive analysis of these rules in a self-contained and rigorous yet accessible manner. It establishes general results on the efficiency of liability rules, including complete characterizations of efficient liability rules and efficient incremental liability rules. The book also establishes that the untaken precaution approach and decoupled liability are incompatible with eff...

This is a work of fiction. Bhaduri Kheda, its Panchayat, and every character in these pages — Nirmala Tai, Bhaskar Rao, Kamla, Ratiram Dada, Vidya, and all others — are inventions of the author. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, actual villages, or actual government policy is coincidental and not intended by the author.No part of this book may be reproduce...