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Excerpt from AWAKENING by SRI CHINMOY

First published in 1988 by

Citadel Books

From Introduction – pp05

...…Told entirely in his own words, most of the stones appear in print for the first time. (The others appeared in AUM magazine in the late sixties and early seventies). The first section, on his earliest childhood, contains stories told recently (as of first printing in 1988). They have all the simple directness and charm, the warmth and intimate sweetness of tales told to a gathering of family and friends. There is great humour in them, but also a poignancy, especially in the stories of his remarkable parents who died when he was so young….

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