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Seeing with the Eyes of Love
''Seeing with the Eyes of Love'' by Eknath Easwaran is a practical commentary on the ''The Imitation of Christ'', a Christian devotional classic of the early 15th century, believed to be the work of Thomas à Kempis. Easwaran's commentary emphasizes how to translate the ''Imitation'' into daily living with the aid of spiritual practices. ''Seeing with the Eyes of Love'' was originally published in the United States in 1991. A German translation was published in 1993, and a second US edition was published in 1996. The book has been reviewed in newspapers,〔 name=jwg92/>〔 name=stpierre92/>〔 name=stpierre97/>〔 name=bonsaint92/>
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==Background==
When he published ''Seeing with the Eyes of Love'' (''SEL'') in 1991, Eknath Easwaran had served since the 1960s as a spiritual teacher in California. Easwaran taught a nonsectarian method of meditation that has been used by spiritual aspirants within many major religious traditions, both eastern and western. Easwaran's writings include commentaries on both eastern〔Easwaran's eastern scriptural commentaries include ''Essence of the Upanishads'' and ''Essence of the Bhagavad Gita'', and he has published spiritual biographies of Gandhi and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.〕 and western〔For western traditions, Easwaran has published a commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, and has commented on Saints Francis, Paul, Augustine, and Mother Teresa.〕 scriptures and spiritual figures.
Raised in South India as a Hindu, Easwaran drew inspiration also from the Christian tradition, explaining that "the message of Christ first reached me"〔 through the lives of individual Christians, such as his college headmaster, Father John Palakaran.〔Writing about Father John Palakaran, Easwaran explains that "I have had the good fortune to know quite a number of Christian men and women like him, both Protestants and Catholics, who led truly selfless lives... the lamp 'set high for all men to see'... they helped me to understand that the selfless life of which all the world's scriptures speak is also a life of beauty." (''SEL'', 1996 edition, p. 11)〕 For spiritual inspiration, Easwaran reported that
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