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The Goddess and the Guru

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Nearly four decades ago, an intense series of spiritual visions led one of India’s top nuclear physicists, until then a religious skeptic and man of science, to walk away from his prestigious post at the heart of the country’s missile-defense complex. Retreating into the remote jungles of eastern India, he discovered the remains of a centuries-old Tantric Mother Goddess shrine and embarked on a life-altering quest to revive and expand it – eventually attracting tens of thousands of followers from across India and around the globe. Part biography and part spiritual guidebook, this book chronicles the astonishing, inspiring – and yet deeply human – life of Dr. Nishtala Prahlada Sastry (later best known as Śrī Amṛtānanda Nātha Saraswatī, or simply “Guruji”); his triumphs and disappointments, public successes, and personal crises. In addition to Amṛtānanda’s life story, the book also offers a generous selection from his writings, lectures, ritual guides and poetry – a treasure trove for those who wish to significantly deepen their spiritual practice while remaining fully engaged with the world.

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ABOUT The book

The Goddess and the Guru was researched and written with Amṛtānanda’s full participation, review and approval, and it is the first book to tell the complete story of his astonishing life and spiritual journey.

The Goddess and the Guru draws upon reams of original documents and countless hours of interviews, both early and recent – not only with Śrī Amṛtānanda himself but with those who knew him best throughout his life: as a child, as a student, as a father and husband, as a friend, as a scientist, as a teacher; and, of course, as a guru. These perspectives are elucidated and contextualized throughout by academic experts on Śrī Vidyā, Tantra and Indian history, culture and religion.

The book also offers rare photographs, many of them never before published, as well as samples of Amṛtānanda’s sketches and drawings, facsimiles of his handwritten manuscripts and much more.

Professionally designed, edited and indexed, The Goddess and the Guru is a beautiful, high-quality keepsake that offers the rare and inspiring experience of an intimate, extended conversation with Amṛtānanda – a chance to get to know, for yourself, one of the great spiritual masters of our time.

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