Date:07/04/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/07/stories/2006040720930300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Sukhabodhananda's book released

Staff Correspondent

Bangalore: Governor T.N. Chaturvedi released here on Thursday the book "Karma Yoga: The Inner Alchemy of Action" by Swami Sukhabodhananda.

The message of the Bhagavad Gita is eternal and contains a guide to human values, which when read with care, reveal much that is relevant to today's life, the Governor said.

The event marked the four-day talks by the Swami at Malleswaram Grounds on personal excellence through Bhagavad Gita. "The profound text of the Gita tells us to drop our ego. Ego is `edging god out' and the main message is to drop one's ego and operate from one's pure being," he said.

If the world is looked at from the mind, one becomes utilitarian oriented and more concerned with using things and seeing the loss and profit of being with things. When you look from your heart, you have love with no utilitarian attitude, the world is seen or perceived differently from the mind and from the heart, he said.

"But there is yet another way of looking at the world, that is from one's being. If one learns to look at life from this angle, one finds the world to be divine. Life is multi-dimensional and one has to view life from different dimensions," the Swami said.