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Eknath Easwaran (December 17, 1910 – October 26, 1999) was a spiritual teacher, an author of books on meditation and ways to lead a fulfilling life, as well as a translator and interpreter of Indian literature. In 1961 Easwaran founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation and Nilgiri Press, based in northern California. Nilgiri Press has published over two dozen books he authored. Easwaran was influenced by Mohandas K. Gandhi, whom he met when he was a young man.〔Gandhi's influence on Easwaran is described by Easwaran or others in a variety of publications, including ''Gandhi the Man'' (e.g., p. 6, 1978 edition), ''The Making of a Teacher'' (e.g., p. 160, 1989 edition), and ''The Compassionate Universe'' (ISBN 9781458778420, see chapter 1; chapters 2-8 are structured using Gandhi's "Seven Social Sins"). See also (the biography of Easwaran ) posted at his publisher's website (accessed 13 January 2013).〕 Easwaran developed a method of meditation – silent repetition in the mind of memorized inspirational passages from the world's major religious and spiritual traditions〔(【引用サイトリンク】 In Memoriam: Sri Eknath Easwaran (1911–1999) )〕 – which later came to be known as Passage Meditation. ==Biography== Eknath Easwaran was born in 1910 in a village in Kerala, British India.〔 "Easwaran was born on December 17, 1910, into an ancient matrilineal family in Kerala, India" (p. 143)〕 ''Eknath'' is his surname, ''Easwaran'' his given name.〔However, after he came to the United States, "Easwaran" generally functioned as his last name (analogous to a surname) for authorship credits and other public activities.〕 Brought up by his mother, and by his maternal grandmother whom he honored as his spiritual teacher, he was schooled in his native village until the age of sixteen, when he went to attend a Catholic college fifty miles away. Here he acquired a deep appreciation of the Christian tradition. He graduated at the University of Nagpur in English and law.〔 ISBN 0-915132-54-0, ISBN 0-915132-55-9, ISBN 978-0-915132-55-3, 〕 He served as Professor of English literature at the University of Nagpur. In 1959, he came to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Eknath Easwaran )〕〔Holly Hammond (1996, Jan/Feb). "(Finding balance in a hurried world )." ''Yoga Journal'' n123, pp. 86–92, 139–141 ISSN 01910965.〕 From 1960 he gave classes on meditation in the San Francisco Bay Area. He met his wife Christine at one of these talks. Together with his wife, he founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation in 1961. After a four-year stay in India, he returned to the Bay Area in 1965. In 1970 he founded ''Ramagiri Ashram'' as a community of dedicated followers in Marin County.〔 He set up a publishing activity, Nilgiri Press, which printed his first book ''Gandhi The Man'', telling the story of Gandhi as a spiritual as well as a political leader. His first major work was his 3-volume commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, the ''Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living'', the first volume of which was printed in 1975 and the last in 1984. His book ''Meditation'' on the program of meditation and allied disciplines that he developed first appeared in 1978. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eknath Easwaran」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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