Patience

Eknath Easwaran (1910-1999) is respected around the world as an authentic guide to timeless wisdom, universal in his appeal and approach.Born in a small village in Kerala state, India, Easwaran grew up listening to his grandmother's age-old stories, and learned from her wise, loving example as she guided and supported her busy extended family. As a young man, Easwaran visited Gandhi in his ashram and was deeply influenced by the way he brought spiritual values into daily life.Easwaran came to the United States on the Fulbright exchange program in 1959, and in 1961 he founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, which carries on his work today through publications and retreats.In 1968, at the University of California, Berkeley, Easwaran taught the first academic course on meditation ever offered for credit at a major American university. He continued to teach his method of passage meditation and his program for spiritual living to an American and international audience for almost forty years.His books have been translated into sixteen languages, and more than 2 million copies are in print, including his best-selling Classics of Indian Spirituality series (The Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads, and The Dhammapada, Nilgiri Press 2007).