Knock,
and the Door shall be Opened!
by
This book shares rare insights into our work-a-day world life. These insights
have been given with practical examples of author's personal life and have been
distilled from his training experience with thousands of participants and his
own practical utility of these insights.
Attempt has been made to offer only practically workable tips and tricks which
are very simple to understand but explosive in their results. They have the
potential to transform lives, from hell to heaven. Provided the reader takes
the book seriously and reads it with a sacred attitude.
It will enable every person to tap his/her powers that are lying unutilised.
This book provides the guidelines to reach and tap those powers.
Here are the Table of Contents for your preview.
CONTENTS
1. Preface
2. Chapter 1 Who Am I in This Universe?
3. Chapter 2 The Power To Make My Life
4. Chapter 3 Managing Success Goals
5. Chapter 4 From Darkness To Light
6. Chapter 5 Feelings- The Music Of Life
· Getting up close and Personal with
Select Few Feelings
* Anger, The Fire in Man
* Hostility- Its Implications and Management
7. Chapter 6 Implementation- The Elusive Factor
· From Distractions to Focus
· Staying In Touch With The Ground
Realities
· Sum-up
8. Chapter 7 Learning To Learn
· Kolb's Learning Cycle
· The Art of Listening To The Wisdom
Of The Body
9. Chapter 8 Groups' Power To transform My Life
10. Chapter 9 Attitudes That Help
· Life is Lived By Living In The
Moment
· Work- The Axis Of Our Life
· Youthfulness- Our Natural Spirit
· Money- Its Power and Impotence
· Sex-The Fruit Of Life
11. Chapter 10 The Ultimate Blossoming
· Characteristics of the Social Self
· Characteristics of the Executive
Self
· Characteristics of the Instinctive
Self
12. Chapter 11 The Spiritual Awakening
· Excellence In The Pursuit Of
Spiritual Journey
· Importance Of Spiritual Master In
Our Life
· Love, Are You God?
13. Chapter 12 Habits That Promote Happiness
14. Appendix
· Scholarly Understanding of
Stress in Our Lives
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Book Review By Dr Ishwar Dayal, Founder
Director IIM Lucknow:
Knock And The Door Shall Be Opened by Pradeep Prakash, published by Krantz Publications, New Delhi; Year 2004, Paper back, Price Rs. 150/-.
Is our destiny in our hands or are we driven by others, or do we wait for God to take care of us? How does one find happiness and be at peace with oneself? Such questions occur to many in life. However, most of us live with such questions but the author of this book went beyond raising concerns and looked for answers. The book describes his experiences to confront these questions and his journey to seek his identity. In this journey he does refer to ideas and concepts to explain or in some way highlight his experiences that either support or differ from traditional knowledge. For example, the author believes that two important aspects of Indian personality are feelings and spirituality. These aspects are an important part of Indian family life. In this respect the orientation of a person in the Eastern World is different from the Western.
In the second chapter the author has emphasized that the exercise of being oneself requires that a person should take charge of his own life rather than blame others for his misfortune and difficulties. The third chapter is an extension of this theme to suggest that it is easy to rationalize one’s failures. Success is achieved through one’s own efforts and by believing in himself or herself. Chapter four discusses the ways the author has been able to “work towards personal growth." Apart from meditation , the author benefited most by two kinds of inputs : i) reviewing as a habit the events of the day in a diary and learning from this experience, and ii) special attention and serious note of feedback from others, including role models.
Chapter five and the remaining chapters are concerned with several aspects of self development. He believes that recognition of feelings is essential for development. It is also necessary to analyze feelings like anger and hostility, etc. and make conscious effort to overcome them. Such negative feelings can be impediment to one’s own growth and for achieving a state of self actualization. Continuing growth depends a great deal on one’s acquiring a positive attitude to learn and develop sensitivity to clues that ordinarily we fail to note. In this process the author believes those group processes or what is termed as group dynamics contribute a great deal toward “empowerment of the self”. The last three chapters in a sense are different from the earlier nine chapters. These chapters have to do with what the author has described in chapter one, the spiritual self. He believes that spiritual growth is necessary for quality living . He believes that Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra can be applied to bring about qualitative change in one’s life.
The strength of the book is that it suggests and also provides hints about how an individual can enhance self-awareness . And these methods are illustrated in steps by personal journey towards understanding the self. Those Persons who are concerned with questions such as “Who am I” and “What am I” would find the book useful. The attempt of the author to support certain concepts of growth with his own experiences from life is useful. However, the author appears to find a great deal of time to devote to “self-development." Many people in the humdrum of living may not be able to arrange their time the way the author was able to do.
I found the book extremely useful. This is different both in content and treatment from many books that reflect on the subject of this volume. The book could be useful to students, teachers, managers and all those who seek ways to understand themselves and grow.
Ishwar Dayal
Former Founder Director, IIM Lucknow
