What, Where, When, How, Why, and Who to Remember to Be Happy

by Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Kenneth Welsh

This delightful and enlightening new CD reveals the Secret of Unconditional Happiness. Listen to the CD while reading along with the richly illustrated book and be carried into the feeling of the Mystery Itself

Genres: Nonfiction, Religion

Audio CD

First published February 10, 2000

Reviews

[Magdalena Hurwitz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I gave this book to my eight year old nephew. His mother told me she'd read it aloud to him at bedtime and kind of fall asleep, but he shook her awake and said he really wanted to hear it.

I read this book whenever philosophical explanations about life are too overwhelming to my ordinary way of thinking.

There are not many books for children - or adults for that matter - that present such a deep discussion of what happiness fundamentally is and feels like, or that acknowledge how bewildering life can be all the time and why, in such very simple and straightforward language. As adults, we all know abstractly that you can be happy without any reason whatsoever, but we often look to children to be that way for us and this does them a disservice. Philosophers, religious scholars, and practitioners of esoteric religions will recognize the gentle discussion in this book as an early introduction to the problem of "ego" as the obstacle to lasting happiness. What Avatar Adi Da has brilliantly added to that list are the problems of the "search" to be happy and the illusion of a "self" separate from the rest of existence.

At the end, the writer identifies himself as someone who has understood and practiced all the offered descriptions and exercises from the perspective of the very "feeling of the Mystery", in other words the disposition of how, as described earlier in the book, "before we name or think or know, we already ARE, and we already FEEL". In these two pages, He presents himself as "the Divine Heart-Master of all and All" - a declaration that may be disturbing to some readers without any background in or regarding spiritual self-realization, or spiritual ecstasy, but may be read and understood as a welcome affirmation and even confession, to those readers who want to hear the truth about life and love.

[Powder Temple · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eu amo muito este livro, é uma comunicação direta e muito poderosa. Eu o leio para meu filho que gosta muito. Eu acredito que está é uma leitura indispensável, para crianças de 0 até 100 anos, para que possam, trabalhar, estudar, brincar, amar e ser feliz.
Um livro cheio de amor em cada pagina.

[Melanie H. · Rating 1 out of 5]

A book that makes no sense, especially for children. Horrible illustrations; creepy actually.