Path Without Destination: An Autobiography - Hardcover

Kumar, Satish

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688164021 ISBN 13: 9780688164027

Publisher: Eagle Brook, 1999

Synopsis

At the age of nine, the author joined a roaming brotherhood of beggar monks until he was presented with Gandhi's vision of a peaceful world and embarked on a religious walking journey from India to America, in an intimate portrait of the remarkable co-creator of the "small is beautiful" movement. Original.

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Review:

If you've ever felt the truth arise within you while sitting beside a quiet stream or lingering under a sky full of stars, you know what it's like to read Satish Kumar's autobiography Path Without Destination. Kumar left home at the age of nine to become a wandering Jain monk and has never stopped wandering. His political consciousness began with a Gandhi-inspired walk from India to Britain and two principles: eat no meat and carry no money. This lifestyle of simplicity and nonviolent political activity has carried Kumar through endeavors as diverse as participating in land reform activism in the Indian countryside, founding the London School of Nonviolence, serving as editor of the international magazine Resurgence, taking part in activism for rural education in the U.K., and making another pilgrimage--a religious one around England. Kumar's is the story of another kind of success, one of gentle truth and justice achieved with no resources other than an unwavering core of spirituality. Page after languid page, that spirituality seeps into his readers' being. --Brian Bruya

About the Author:

Satish Kumar is the editor of Resurgence magazine and director of programme at Schumacher College. He has lectured at such places as Harvard University, where his progressive ideas have gained new respect. He's been profiled in The New York Times, The Times (London), The Gazette (Montreal), the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Parabola, and Utne Reader. Kumar resides in England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eagle Brook
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0688164021
• ISBN 13: 9780688164027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 309