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THE JOY OF BEING
This is a book "For those who dare to believe that God is within themselves, as themselves."
It is a new and timely message of hope for the world.

Mark Kumara is a spiritual teacher who lives in Denmark, on the south coast of Western
Australia.

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of the book. Have your credit card ready. You will, in most cases, receive the book within two
weeks)

This is a very comprehensive easy to read book of practical down-to-earth spiritual teaching
of ten chapters and 285 pages, written with humour and compassion by an undoubted
spiritual master. It covers such subjects as the Purpose of your life on earth, Relationships,
Marriage and Children, Evil and Suffering, Sex, Religions and Science, Healing and
Nourishment, Government, Death, Rebirth and Purpose, and Meditation.

Questions to Mark Kumara can be sent to markkumara@gmail.com

Joy is the outer expression of peace,
Peace is the inner origin of Joy,
Love is everything in between. (MARK KUMARA)

(Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God. Teilhard de Chardin).

Below are some excerpts taken from Mark Kumara's book THE JOY OF BEING, a book of
inspiration, of healing and teaching.

Excerpts

The time of the great awakening is upon the world and you who have sensed it are becoming
very aware that there is no possibility of you being separate either from the challenge or from
the fruits of this awakening.

At every age a new vision is given to humanity that follows on from
all that was best in the age gone by.

This new vision reveals a new quality of divinity for aspiring humanity
to embody in the age that follows.

Love was the quality of divinity introduced to the world by Jesus. The quality of divinity for this
coming age is to be JOY!

This new quality is now being revealed by those who are bringing in the new vision. They can
only reveal it to the extent that they themselves can embody it within themselves and express
it through their own natural living - and being.

You are the joy of the world. We are the joy of the world. Together we are the joy of the
Universe.

God is joy. The Oneness is joy. We are it!

Joy is a quality associated with the vibrancy of being alive and knowing you are part of a greater
unfolding purpose. Joy is the celebration of life for no other reason than for the sheer joy of
being alive and revelling in it.

Joy is the new quality of divinity to be embodied.

Like love, joy has always been here, but there has been little recognition of its power or its
beauty or its rightness in the divine scheme of things. Solemnity has more often been the
accepted norm in the world's religions.

Have the courage to be free and create your own joyful reality!

The kingdom of heaven is in the present moment. It is an inner reality with an outer
significance.

The earth is a part of heaven, not apart from heaven. You are just not seeing it yet. The earth is
a part of the Oneness and therefore has to be heaven for there is nothing other than the
Oneness.

Joy, love and peace exist as the very nature of the Oneness and humanity has a very real
purpose to wake up and find this out.

Joy has as its value the one sure indication that we are living in wholeness. If you are not feeling
joy in your life you are not living from your essence, which is the experience of being directly
connected to spirit. Instead you are living out of the conditioned ego where joy remains an
illogical dream and happiness is, at best, temporary and elusive.

In essence there is no difference between a spark of the fire and the fire itself. Only in size and
power is there a difference. So it is with you in the Oneness. All is of the same quality and the
one essence. You and I together with all the creatures in the universe, together with all that is
non-sentient, have this essence in common.

It is called LIFE. Its spirit is JOY. It is the joy in all being.

You cannot work at being joyful. You cannot plan joy in advance. Joy is not something you can
switch on and off when it suits you. Joy arises when there is surrender to what is there. It arises
out of nowhere that you can pin point. It is a child of spontaneity and arises, not from trying nor
from discipline, but from relaxing and surrendering.

About the Book

This is a rare, beautiful, book of profound spiritual guidance. It has a new and timely message of
hope for the world. Author, Mark Kumara, who lives in Western Australia and runs a meditation
centre, credits the book to Sanat Kumara, his higher self, who, he says, made himself known to
him in a vision, informing him he was a member of the Earth Council, and telling him to call
himself Kumara. Compassion, a sense of humour, and a healthy dose of common sense, shines
through this book. It addresses everything you might like to know about life on earth, its
meaning, its purpose, who you really are - and where you are going. Sanat Kumara unravels the
true meaning of love, and relationships, piercing not a few misconceptions along the way that
may startle you.
It has the rare distinction of being written in a way that Westerners can follow. The insights are
inspirational and there are simple exercises given to help you realise your own light within
yourself.
It unveils the truth behind all religions, revealing the mystery of God, in a clear and succinct
manner, without sentimentality and without cant. Sanat Kumara clearly states that death is a
total illusion and that joy is the reality of existence. His words pierce the fog surrounding the
longing of humanity for something greater that itself and the part religions have played. He gets
to grips with the paradox of the God within and the God without, with the Christian Trinity, and
new age teachers.
This is no mean achievement, giving this book an appeal to new age seekers as well as members
of established churches because it has much in it for both. Its message is universal. It pushes
back boundaries and powerfully enjoins the reader to examine his or her beliefs, whilst, at the
same time, honouring the fundamental truth of a loving universe.
Above all, this is a book for those who might dare to believe the God is within themselves, as
themselves. It is a book with a powerful message: reading it, you might find yourself tingling all
over. It has the ring of truth about it.

About the Author

Mark Kumara, born Mark Oliver in the south of England, lives in Western Australia where he
runs a meditation centre. He credits his book The Joy of Being to his higher self, Sanat Kumara,
who, he says, made himself known to him in a vision, informing him he was a member of the
Earth Council and telling him to call himself Kumara.

More Excerpts

Indeed, I say to you, your only purpose in being here on earth in physical bodies is to transform
these bodies into bodies of light. You may relax your anxieties concerning all other works. Is this
not a relief!
To all of you, who, at the dawning of another age, find yourselves embattled by a thousand
things to do, is this not an immense relief?
My beloveds, to help others discover their own joy within them is the best way to reveal your
own. This way, I tell you, is the swiftest and least painful way of reaching your goal, and, in the
meantime, is of great service to myself which is yourself in all our manifested forms.
I am a great economist of energy. I use it not wastefully or to deliberately prolong for you the
reaching of your goal. It is never in my consideration deliberately to make your path hard for
you or to put tests your way. On the contrary, I constantly am smoothing your path for you for
it is the nature of the human ego ever to seek difficulties where none exist but for it.
When you serve the life in others and set it free, you are freeing yourself. And, when you free
yourself, to that extent the other becomes free, also. Indeed, we are One.

Joy is a feeling of aliveness and happiness. It is a most misunderstood feeling because human
beings feel so guilty about feeling happy. There is an ingrained suspicion that happiness comes,
inevitably, at the expense somewhere down the line, of a balancing bout of misery.
Yet, happiness, truly, is joy when it is not tied to the vacillating mood swings of cause and effect,
when it is not, in other words, a result of ego reaction.
Little can be said of joy; so again I am trying to do the impossible; for joy is the very nature of
god and who can say anything of god? A god to be read about in a book, to be preached about, to
be theorised about, to be sacrificed to, to be prayed to, to be worshipped, is a god at arm's
length: a very poor sort of god to have about! But a god to feel, to love, to have as friend, to
experience within yourself as yourself: now, that's a god!

You can order THE JOY OF BEING from www.trafford.com
(click on the bookstore tab in the top right hand corner, then type in the author’s name, or title
of the book)