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» Prem Ane Prasannatano Pravah

“Prem Ane Prasannatano Pravah” is the 32nd book of Fr. Varghese Paul in Gujarati. Famous Roman Poet Ovid, who is known for his poems on love, says that when a person carries a burden with love then the burden becomes light. I fully agree with Ovid as I have written these essays without ever feeling burdened. On the contrary, I have enjoyed writing them. Hence I consider each of these essays like a stream of love and gaiety.

In this stream of love and gaiety I have articulated topics which are often the subject of ordinary conversation and discussion among people. They are curious to know about such topics and problems and they seek solutions to them. In an ambient of love and gaiety I have tried to understand deeply and explain these topics simply.

Many of these essays of the book have been tested on the anvil of experiences. Still my readers need not agree with my thoughts and conclusions. But I will be happy if they provoke my readers to think and draw their own conclusions.

Warmth of love and gaiety (preface)
1.	All Things shall be Well	14.	Happiness and Old Age
2.	Inter-religious Peace and Harmony	15.	What is Truth after all?
3.	Importance of Sex Education in Schools	16.	Is Euthanasia Desirable?
4.	Valentine Day means Feast Day of Love	17.	Diwali Means the Search for Inner Self
5.	Examination and Mental Peace	18.	Message of Chrismas : God’s Love for Men
6.	My limited Power of Thinking	19.	My only One Resolution of New Year
7.	The Insight from Traumatic Experience	20.	The Spiritually of Cross and Good Friday
8.	Cremation or Burial?	21.	Happiness of Living Alone
9.	Only for You	22.	The Controversy of a Beard
10.	Lending Womb from Humanistic Point of View	23.	Population Increase: Is it Blessing or Curse?
11.	Harvesting of Terrorism	24.	Seven Steps to Counter Opposition
12.	Make the Poor Vibrant	25.	The Pope of the Century: Pope John Paul II
13.	My Faith or My Hope?

» Premni Parikrama (Loitering of Love)

Here is a collection of selected editorial articles published in a Catholic family magazine DOOT. Along with the articles on Jesus’ vision of life and theology the book covers social issues, personality profiles and Christian feasts, etc. Love and forgiveness are the underlining themes of the book with a vision for social and religious regeneration.

LOVE & FORGIVENESS

1.	Let us Accept true Love	15.	The Encyclical Letter “Sixteenth Year” of Pope John Paul II and We
2.	If you Forgive, you will Receive Forgiveness	16.	On the Path of Liberation Theology
3.	Experiences of Love	17.	Divorce as Seen by the Catholic Church
4.	They will Persecute You	18.	Eucharist in the Life of Saints
5.	The Vision of Love & Attitude of Love	19.	Christian Religion Supports Dalits
6.	Your Experiences of God	20.	Is Indianization Justified?
7.	Walk on the Path of Jesus on this New Year	21.	What can be Done in the Face of Criticism?
8.	Jesus as Seen by Today’s Boys and Girls	22.	Give Woman her Right is all Fields
9.	Jesus in the Form of a Woman	23.	Mother Mary will Find a Way for you
10.	Which Jesus? Of Imagination or of History?	24.	Just and Committed Servant
11.	The Face of God the Father in the Crib	25.	Giving new Direction – Bishop Thomas Macwan
12.	The Birth of Jesus in your Heart	26.	Good and Dedicated Missionary Fr. Gazo
13.	Resurrection Means New Relationship with Jesus	27.	Appreciation of Service of Mr. Robert Engineer
14.	When is our Resurrection?

» How to Make LIFE Worth Living

Greek historian Plutarch (AD 46-120) tells us the story of a ‘clever’ fellow. The fellow believed that a dead body could stand erect if it was poised at a proper angle. The fellow then took a dead body and tried his best to make it stand. But all his efforts failed. Then, accepting defeat the clever fellow said, “Something has disappeared from the inside of this so that it cannot stand.”

We may laugh at the words of the clever fellow. But there is something in the story for us to reflect on. What is that something, which has disappeared from the inside of the dead man? What is that something inside of us, which helps us to stand erect and hold our heads high? I believe that it is our ethical, moral and religious values that make us stand erect amidst trials and difficulties. For, as Shakespeare says, “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” Our values help us stand firm in spite of the mingled yarn of problems and conflicts in our daily living.

In this book, How to Make Life Worth Living, the author has out together 25 essays around the theme of values graced by love. As love is all-embracing and values are many, these essays deal with a variety of topics. But they are all anchored on love and values, which make life worth living.

In this book, How to Make Life Worth Living, the author has out together 25 essays around the theme of values graced by love. As love is all-embracing and values are many, these essays deal with a variety of topics. But they are all anchored on love and values, which make life worth living.

1.	Take Away Free the Beautiful Things of Nature	14.	Let us Blaze a New Path in this New Year
2.	Let’s Think about Others	15.	Forever the Outsider
3.	The Humaneness of Mother Teresa	16.	The Buddhist Model of Management
4.	Justice for All Means Peace for All	17.	Good Governance and Administration
5.	The Teachers are the Key to Education	18.	‘Jai Adivasi’ – Slogan of Tribal Dignity
6.	Cultural and Religious Pluralism	19.	Fighting Social Evil – The Adivasi Way
7.	Competitive Globalization or Promotion of Values	20.	Our Independence Day Celebrations
8.	Displaced Persons and Refugees	21.	Our Glorious Achievements and Crying Failures
9.	The Unaided Refugees	22.	Earn Money but don’t be Hooked
10.	Life More Important than Examinations	23.	The Example of a Donkey
11.	Is Suicide a Permanent Solution?	24.	Who is the Number-One Enemy of Women?
12.	Let Human Rights Rule Your House	25.	A Stress Free Life
13.	Home, an Abode of Peace

» LOVE, YOUTH & FAMILY

“LOVE, YOUTH & FAMILY” is the first book of Fr. Varghese Paul, S.J. in English. He has authored 28 books in Gujarati. The book is published by the Pauline Publications of Daughters of St. Paul, Mumbai in their ‘Insight Books’ series. The 176-page book is a collection of 30 thought-provoking essays around the theme of Love, Youth & Family.

“I usually write and publish my articles in Gujarati dailies, magazines and other periodicals. But every fortnight I translate one of my Gujarati articles and upload it in my personal web site www.vpaulsj.org. So the 30 chapters of the book are originally published in Gujarati newspaper columns or in other periodicals,” says the author about his book.

Most of the chapters of the book have been published as articles in weekly newspapers like the Indian Currents, The Herald, and The Examiner.

The beautifully printed book with multi-colour cover is priced at Rs.80/- only. The book is available in all bookshops of the Daughters of St. Paul and of the Society of St. Paul and also with the author’s CISS Office at Ahmedabad with a discount.

The author’s Forward says

Teenagers and youth need their parents’ love and guidance more than gifts and money. This need can be fulfilled only through the parents and children spending quality time together. In spending time together they will understand the basic fact about love: that God has loved them first and they should respond to God’s love by loving themselves and each other in and through God.

The family is the source of human love which transmits divine love to each of its members. This book “Love, Youth and Family” deals with every member of a family: father and mother, children and adults, young and old, grandmother and grandfather, and other relatives, but the special emphasis is on love and youth.

The book also treats other topics of interest to the members of a family like justice and social evils. Various chapters of the book deal directly or indirectly with two questions: First, What things constitute a happy family? And second, How to make one’s family really happy?

1.	Is Your Family Happy?	2.	One Night with a Young Couple
3.	Where are the Missing Women in India?	4.	Housemaid or Slave Girl?
5.	Know Thyself	6.	Understanding and Misunderstanding
7.	Social Justice to the Downtrodden	8.	Kindness: The Power of Eternity
9.	Witnessing a Miracle of Love	10.	My Dream of a World in Harmony
11.	Stop This Human Trafficking	12.	Removing Illiteracy
13.	Education and the Habit of Reading	14.	The Power of a Magic Spell
15.	And He was a Muslim…	16.	Globalization and Ethics
17.	Mother on Sale!	18.	The Rules of the Game of Love
19.	Human Rights in a Family	20.	Behind Closed Doors
21.	How to Solve Problems between Siblings?	22.	My First Miracle
23.	True Inheritance from Parents and Elders	24.	Forgive your Ex-Life Partner
25.	Problems of Interreligious Marriages	26.	Seven Secrets to a Happy Married Life
27.	Welcome the Female Child	28.	Build Self-Confidence in Your Child
29.	Equality in Marriage	30.	Fostering the Culture of Life

» MADHUR JINDAGI (Life in Full Measure)

“Madhur Jindagi” is the 29th and the latest book of Fr. Varghese Paul in Gujarati.

Once in Rome a soldier came to Julius Caesar and asked him permission to commit suicide. Julius Caesar looked at him from head to food. He looked sad and depressed. He seemed to have no life in him. So Julius Caesar asked him, “Man, did you ever enjoy life to the full?”

We do not know what the soldier said to Julius Caesar. It does not matter. But we can ask ourselves the same question Julius Caesar asked the soldier. “Mary / John, are you enjoying your life to the full?”

To answer the question, we need to know what life in full measure means and how can we enjoy it.

Wise men, philosophers and ancient sages have spoken much about life living to the full. The first century Roman philosopher Markus Seneca says, “as long as you live, live it to the full and continue to learn the art of living till the end.”

The 20 essays in this book attempts to show how to live one’s life to the full amidst joys and pains. You can live your full lives in the middle of your happiness and sufferings. Let these essays enlighten you.

1.	Successful Life Beacons You	2.	Take Oath to Protect Environment
3.	Life-long Bachelorhood	4.	The Sins on Public Roads
5.	Ten Commandments for Drivers	6.	The Achievements and Shame of India
7.	The Deadly Attraction of ‘Da Vinci Code’	8.	International Friendship Day
9.	Religion Founded on Love	10.	Shortage of Jobs or Want of Qualifications
11.	Let Anger and Antagonism go	12.	Question of Living Together
13.	Euthanasia and Morality	14.	Why Marriages Fails
15.	The Heart of Christmas	16.	Good Friday and Cross
17.	Two Concrete Steps for New Year	18.	Foot-wears thrown from Masjid into Tem
19.	Religion of Peace : Islam	20.	Three Monotheistic Religions Meet

Publisher: R R Sheth & Co., Ahmedabad-Mumbai, ‘Dwarkesh’, Nr. Royal Apartments, Khanpur, Ahmedabad - 380 001.

»VISHVAVIBHUTIO : MOTHER TERESA AND POPE JOHN PAUL II

Author: Fr. Varghese Paul, SJ, Publisher: R. R. Sheth & Co., Mumbai-Ahmedabad, ‘Dwarkesh’ Near Royal Apartments, Khanpur, Ahmedabad 380 001, pp.112, price Rs.70, First Edition: October 2008.

In this look the author has collected 16 inspirational essays on Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II. These essays written during the last two decades sprung from the personal acquaintances of the author with the two eminent personalities as well as from the controversies raised about them.

The author is privileged to meet both Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II on various occasions and know them from close quarters. The critics as well as the admirers of Mother Teresa and of Pope John Paul II will find in this book both information and views which may collaborate their views or challenge them.

CONTENT

Part I International Personality : Mother Teresa

1) Mother Teresa’s influence of the Indian Mind
2) The Spiritual Power of Mother Teresa
3) The Effect of Mother Teresa
4) When will Mother Teresa become Saint Teresa?
5) Mother Teresa Should not be Declared a Saint
6) Mother Teresa : Angel or Agent of Hell?
7) True Homage to Blessed Mother Teresa
8) Mother Teresa Enthroned in the Public Mind
9) The Spiritual Struggle of Mother Teresa
10) Mother Teresa and the Controversies
11) The Humanity at Mother Teresa

Part II Internal Personality : Pope John Paul II

12) The Saviour of Humanity : John Paul II
13) My Meeting with Pope John Paul II
14) Welcome to Pope John Paul II to India
15) Let the Pope Implore Forgiveness
16) “I Ask Pardon’, Pope John Paul II

The Appendices
Speech of Mother Teresa Accepting the Nobel Prize
Important Chronological Dates of Mother Teresa
Important Chronological Dates of Pope John Paul II
Addresses of the Institutions of Missionaries of Charity in Gujarat
Inspirational Saying of Mother Teresa
Inspirational Saying of Pope John Paul II

» MAGHMAGHTU JIVAN
(Inspirational Essays in Gujarati)

My basic belief is that our lives are to be lived in happiness. St. Paul in his letter to Philippians says, “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice” (Phil. 4, 4). It is possible for every human being to live in happiness. But the reality is that we are often not happy. Why? Here I have described different life-situations of people who are angry, tensed, loving, worried, etc. I hope that trying to understand oneself and one’s different life-situations one can draw inspirations and guidance for oneself to be happy and content.

Chapters

The Centre of Love (Foreword) by Dr. Yogendra Vyas
The Purpose of Life (Preface by the Author)

1	The Circle of Love	14	The Importance of Wealth
2	Spiritual Intimacy with all Brothers and Sisters of Environment	15	Light, the Symbol of Diwali
3	Control your Anger	16	The Perfect Image of Love is Christmas
4	The Language in the Gift	14	Christmas Means the Birth of Love
5	Grandparents’ Share in the Upbringing of Children	18	The Story of Christmas
6	The Joy of Old Age	19	Good Friday – The Victory of Love
7	Life is more Important than Examinations	20	Are the Christians the Enemy of Muslims?
8	A Visit to My Village Home	21	A Flag of Social Service
9	“No God, No Religion”	22	An Example of Truthfulness for Youth: Gandhiji
10	What do the Christians Believe about Death	23	The Services of Editors till Diamond Jubilee
11	Abolition of Death Penalty	24	Awake, Forge Ahead in Gender Equality
12	Life Free from Tension	25	An Experience of International formation
13	Meaningless Show of Wealth

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