Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
People learn to love God, writes Eknath Easwaran, by increasing their capacity to love their families, friends, and coworkers - even those they dislike. Here, in a verse-by-verse reading on devotion from the Bhagavad Gita, he teaches readers ways to increase their capacity for love and divine connection.
Synopsis
Our deepest need is to love completely, universally, without reservation -- in other words, to become love itself. Where there is love, everything follows. To love is to know, is to act; all other paths to God are united in this path of love.
In form a verse-by-verse reading of a chapter on devotion from the Bhagavad Gita -- the most popular spiritual document of India -- Eknath Easwaran's words of practical wisdom guide us through the nitty-gritty challenges of everyday love, showing:
-- How to deepen our love for all those around us
-- How to seek the divine in all our relationships
-- What is means to "love the Lord"
-- Why it is so difficult to change entrenched habits -- and how to make those changes
-- Effective spiritual practices for learning to love