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“… આપણા પોતાના જીવનમાં પૂર્ણપણે ઉપસ્થિત રહેવા અને આપણા અતીત અને ભવિષ્યથી મુક્ત થવા માટે ‘ધ પાવર ઓફ નાઉ’ (શક્તિ વર્તમાનની) એક યાદ આપનાર કૃતિ છે. તે તમારી વિચાર કરવાની ક્રિયામાં પરિવર્તન લાવી શકે છે. પરિણામ ? ઠીક આજ ક્ષણે અધિક ઉલ્લાસ, પરમ આનંદ.”
– ઓપરા વિનફે, ‘ઓ’ – ‘ધ ઓપરા મેગેઝીન’ માં
શક્તિ વર્તમાનની (ધ પાવર આંફ નાઉ)માં સફર કરવા માટે આપણા માટે એ જરૂરી છે કે આપણે આપણા વિશ્લેષક મનને અને તેના દ્વારા રચિત અસત્ અહમ્ને પાછળ છોડી દેવાં પડશે. સફર જો કે પડકારરૂપ છે, પરંતુ આપણને માર્ગ ચીંધવા માટે એક્હાર્ટ ટૉલ્લે સાદી સરળ ભાષા અને પ્રશ્ન – ઉત્તરની શૈલીનો ઉપયોગ કર્યો છે. શબ્દો પોતે એ માર્ગ પરના સંકેતચિહ્નો છે.
આપણામાંના અનેકે આ માર્ગે આગળ વધતાં નિતનવી શોધ કરવાની છે: આપણે આપણા મન નથી; માનસિક દુ:ખમાંથી નીકળવા માટે આપણે આપણો માર્ગ શોધી શકીએ છીએ; વર્તમાનને સમર્પણ કરી તે દ્વારા આપણે વિશ્વસનીય માનવીય-શક્તિ પ્રાપ્ત કરી શકીએ. આપણે એ પણ જાણી લઈએ છીએ કે અમારી ચોતરફ વ્યાપ્ત મૌન અને અવકાશ (રિક્તતા)ની જેમ આપણો દેહ પણ અંતર-શાંતિની સ્થિતિમાં પ્રવેશ કરવા માટેનું વાસ્તવમાં એક સાધન છે. ખરેખર, પ્રવેશ-દ્વાર આપણા જીવનમાં સર્વત્ર ખૂલી શકે છે. ઉપલબ્ધિનાં આ બિંદુઓ યા તો પ્રવેશદ્વારોનો જ્યાં સમસ્યાઓનું અસ્તિત્વ નથી. એ વર્તમાનમાં ઉપસ્થિત રહેવા માટે ઉપયોગ થઈ શકે છે. અહીં જ આપણને સાચો આનંદ લાભે છે અને આપણે આપણા સાચા આત્માને આલિંગન કરી શકીએ છીએ. અહીં જ આપણે ખોજ કરીએ છીએ કે આપણે પહેલેથી જ પૂર્ણ પરિપૂર્ણ છીએ.
એના પ્રથમ પ્રકાશન બાદ તૂર્ત જ લોકોના મુખે પ્રશંસાના ઉદ્ગાર દ્વારા બહોળો વાચડવર્ગ પ્રાપ્ત કરનાર ‘ધ પાવર ઓંફ નાઉ’ એક એવી વિરલ કૃતિ છે કે જેનામાં તેના વાચકોને એક અનન્ય અનુભવ કરાવવાની શક્તિ છે – જે તેમના જીવનમાં ધરમૂળ પરિવર્તન લાવી તેમને ઉચ્ચતર સ્તરે લઈ જશે.
એક્હાર્ટ ટૉલ્લ આપણા સમકાલીન આધ્યાત્મિક ગુરુ છે જેઓ કોઈ વિશિષ્ટ ધર્મ કે પરંપરાના અનુયાયી નથી. તેઓ પ્રાચીન આધ્યાત્મિક ગુરુઓની સમયાતીત અને જટિલ પ્રયોગોથી મુક્ત સ્પષ્ટ શૈલીમાં લખે છે, અને આપણને સરળ છતાં ગહન અર્થગંભીર સંદેશ આપે છે : દુ:ખોમાંથી બહાર નીકળવાનો અને શાંતિમાં પ્રવેશ કરવાનો માર્ગ છે. તેમની અન્ય કૃતિઓમાં “સ્ટીલનેસ સ્પીક્સ” (સ્તબ્ધતા બોલે છે) ને ‘પ્રેક્ટીસિંગ ધ પાવર ઓફ નાઉ’ (શક્તિમાન વર્તમાનનો અભ્યાસ) મુખ્ય છે. તેઓ દેશવિદેશની યાત્રા કરે છે અને તેમનું નિવાસસ્થાન બ્રિટિશ કોલમ્બીઆના વાનકુંવર નગરમાં છે.
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– Oprah Winfrey, in O: The Oprah Magazine
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– Patricia Gordon, Calgary, Alberta
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“This book offers us a wonderful gift, but we must have the courage to seize it. I encourage you to accept this gift. I believe our very survival on this planet is dependent on the inner journey that Eckhart Tolle is urging us to take.”
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– Joseph Roberts, Common Ground, Vancouver, British Columbia
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– Thunderbird Bookshop, Carmel, California
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– Stephen Gawtry, Manager, Watkins Books Ltd., London
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“There is a power behind his words found only in the most celebrated of spiritual teachers. By living from the depths of this Greater Reality, Eckhart clears an energetic pathway for others to join him.”
– Russell E. DiCarlo Author of Towards a New World View: Conversations at the Leading Edge
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– Lama Surya Das, Author of Awakening the Buddha Within
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“This manuscript is like a collection of ‘Daily Bread’ in that the gleanings of knowledge that are made available by Eckhart are in a spiritually digestible form of question and answer. These conscious awareness triggers are a must read in this present age of truth seekers.”
– David L. Jones, Author of A Warrior in the Land of Disease
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“In The Power of Now, author-sage Eckhart Tolle uses words to guide readers beyond words. Pointing to the portals of the eternal present, this practical mystic’s modern gospel offers transcendent truths that set us free.”
– Dan Millman, Author of Everyday Enlightenment and The Laws of Spirit
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“I can neatly divide my life into two phases -B.E.T. and A.E.T. Before Eckhart Tolle and After Eckhart Tolle. Being from a highly spiritual Aryasamaji family and brought up in a French Convent school, I poured over spiritual texts, listened to gurus and priests, spent weeks in spiritual camps, but it is in E.T. that I find the amazing ability to distill ancient spiritual truths into contemporary, usable and practical guidelines.”
– Rashmi Uday Singh, Author, Food and Health Columnist
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“It delights me to discover that friends in India and abroad, touched deeply by The Power of Now, are each touched differently. In that sense this immensely wise and helpful book is diagnostic -the paragraphs which most affect you also tell you who you are. Eckhart Tolle is in close touch with something quite beyond his own flesh, blood and neural circuitry.”
– Fr. Laney Pereira S.J., Author of The Enchanted Darkness and former Principal (St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai)