Pedrero

My language first, sorry.

ESPAÑOL

Nací en La Mancha, Mestanza, Ciudad Real, España en 1944. Traductor EN-FR-NL-DE a ES. Viví en Madrid, Córdoba, Gran Canaria, Lübeck, Leidschendam y Groningen, y ahora en Guardamar, Alicante.

Intereses: Mis 3 hijos, meditación (alumno de Prem Rawat desde 1974, yoga, psicología, sociología, filosofía, historia, ciencia y tecnología (mismo estante), política y religión, (mismo estante?), los viajes, los deportes, el humor y demasiadas cosas más.

Libros que he encontrado tan interesantes como para leerlos más de una vez

1. La Biblia, parte, nunca la leí completa, quizás 1/3 ó 1/4, principalmente el Nuevo Testamento.

2. Por Richard Alpert/Ram Dass: “Be Here Now”, (llamado la “Biblia hippy").

3. Por Swami Vivekananda: a) “Jnana Yoga”, b) “Bhakti Yoga”.

4. Por Swami Sivananda: a) “EL Pensamiento y su Poder”, b) “Senda Divina”, c) “Kundalini Yoga”, d) “La Ciencia del Pranayama” y e) Concentración y Meditación

5. Por Levi E. Dowling: “El Evangelio de Acuario de Jesús el Cristo”.

6. Por Evans-Wentz: a) “Yoga Tibetana y Doctrinas Secretas” y b) “El Libro Tibetano de los Muertos”.

7. Por Swami Sri Yukteswar: “La ciencia sagrada”.

8. Por Juan Mascaró, Yogananda y otros, : “El Bhagavad Gita”.

9. Por Paramahansa Yogananda: a) “Autobiografía de un Yogui”, b) “La Búsqueda Eterna”, c) "El Romance Divino”, d) “Viaje a la Auto-Realization”, e) “Donde hay Luz”, f) “Susurros de Eternidad”, g) “God talks to Arjuna-The Bhagavad Gita”, 1.200 páginas, “El Yoga de Jesús”) “La Segunda Venida de Cristo”, 1.800 páginas, aún leyéndolo, pero repetiré.

10. Por Aldous Huxley 1) Un Mundo Feliz 2) Brave New World Revisited 3) La Filosofía Perenne

ENGLISH

Born Mestanza, Ciudad Real, Spain, in 1944. Translator EN-FR-NL-DE into ES. Lived in Madrid, Córdoba, Gran Canaria, Lübeck, Leidschendam, Groningen and now in Guardamar, Alicante. Interests: the above mentioned one, languages, my 3 sons, meditation (Prem Rawat's techniques, yoga, psychology, philosophy, sociology, history, religion & politics (same shelf?), science & technology, sports, humor, travelling and too many more things.

I want to tell you a joke I have invented, thinking of the tragic and comic history of religions:

A Christian, a Hinduist, a Buddhist, a Jew, a Moslim and an atheist were travelling in a car, then had a sudden crash, died and ended up on heaven's door, where God showed up. A believer asked:

- Tell us Lord, who of us was right? Are you a Hinduist, a Buddhist, a Jew, a Christian or a Muslim?

To which God replied:

- I am an atheist.

- How can you explain that?

- If I were a believer of any kind I would have to worship myself, which would be against the humility that I have been trying to teach you through all the Prophets, who really preached the same truth, that you are all my sons, and I am within you all, but when they died you made them say something different.

After that, they came into heaven, the believers kept on practicing their own religions, and the atheist thought: "I knew I was right".

Books I liked as to read more than once:

1. The Bible, parts of it, I never read it complete, perhaps one third/fourth, mainly the New Testament. All my life.

2. “Be Here Now”, (called the “Hippy Bible”), by Richard Alpert/Ram Dass, aprox. in 1970.

3. By Swami Vivekananda, in the seventies: a) “Jnana Yoga”, and b) “Bhakti Yoga”.

4. By Swami Sivananda:, in the seventies/eighties: a) “El Pensamiento y su Poder”, I think in English it is “Thought-Power”, b) “Senda Divina”, in English I think it is “Bliss Divine”, c) “Kundalini Yoga” and d) “Science of Pranayama”.

5. “The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ”, by Levi E. Dowling, in the seventies/eighties.

6. By Evans-Wentz, in the seventies: a) “Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines” and b) “The Tibetan Book of the Dead”.

7. By Swami Sri Yukteswar, in the nineties: “The Sacred Science” .

8. By Juan Mascaró, Yogananda and others, from the seventies til now: “The Bhagavad Gita”.

9. By Paramahansa Yogananda: a) “Autobiography of a Yogi”, b) “Man’s Eternal Quest”, c) "The Divine Romance”, d) “Journey to Self-Realization”, e) “Where There is Light”, f) “Whispers from Eternity”, g) “God Talks With Arjuna-The Bhagavad Gita”, in the nineties, the one which taught me the most of all, thanks to its 1.200 pages, h) “The Yoga of Jesus” in 2008, and i) “The Second Coming of Christ”, still reading it.