Specification:
- Publisher : Zen Publications
- By : Dwaraknath Reddy
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2008
- Pages : xvi, 117p.
- Weight : 240 gm.
- Size : 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
- ISBN-10 : 938278800X
- ISBN-13 : 978-9382788003
Description:
The approach is both scholarly and mystic. Pages soaked with fundamental Upanishadic ideas regarding mind, consciousness, ego, along with concepts of Relativity and quantum physics... scintillating lines... clarity of vision of author's flight on two wings of reason and intuition. - Swami Jitatmananda, physicist-turned-senior monk, Sri Ramkrishna Mission, Rajkot
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- Publisher : Zen Publications
- By : Ramesh S. Balsekar
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : Hindi
- Edition : 2006
- Pages : 78
- Weight : 500 gm.
- Size :
- ISBN-10 : 8188071692
- ISBN-13 : 978-8188071692
Description:
Remain relaxed in Consciousness. In any situation, do whatever you feel you should do without any regrets about the past, without any complaints in the present, without any expectations for the future, and, importantly, without blaming and condemning anyone for anything - neither yourself nor the other. This will enable you to live your life, constantly connected to the Source, and will give you happiness through peace of mind: SUKHA-SHANTI. This will be your personal religion: Sukha-Shanti
Specification:
- Publisher : Zen Publications
- By : Ramesh S. Balsekar
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 1996
- Pages : 200p
- Weight : 500 gm.
- Size : 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-13 : 978-0929448145
- ISBN-10 : 0929448146
Description:
Can Spiritual Understanding be imparted through letters?It’s a long-distance love affair. The Master is in Mumbai, most of his disciples thousands of miles away. The Teaching deals with Advaita, or non-duality. And as the Teaching gently seeps deeper, doubts and questions sprout; and often, the only way the disciple can seek guidance from the Master is through mail. The correspondence that flows is truly remarkable since it is both subjective and objective, unique and universal, personal and impersonal. To the disciple the correspondence may denote letters from one individual to another. For the Master, they are merely words emanating from Consciousness to Consciousness. Consciousness Writes offers you the fragrance of Advaitic teaching and a rare glimpse into the Master-disciple relationship -- enveloped in the warmth of intimacy and the sparkle of Ramesh’s wit.
Specification:
- Publisher : Zen Publications
- By : Ramesh Balsekar
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 1996
- Pages : 173p
- Weight : 360 gm.
- Size : 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
- ISBN-10 : 818807103X
- ISBN-13 : 978-8188071036
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The abhangas, the spontaneous outpourings of a keen devotee, offer the very core of advaita. For centuries, the abhangas have served as succinct and direct pointers to Reality.The format of the abhanga is simple, easy to understand: a few lines dealing with a particular aspect of the Understanding, followed by a forceful summation akin to an arrow that embeds itself in the heart, circumventing the intellect. In some cases, the abhanga bursts forth when the arrow finds its mark.
Shirish S. Murthy’s Consciousness Strikes presents, in the abhanga format, the quintessence of the advaitic teachings of a contemporary Sage. Ramesh S. Balsekar.
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- Publisher : Zen Publications
- By : Ramesh S. Balsekar
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 1999
- Pages : 225
- Weight : 450 gm.
- Size : 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-10 : 8188071137
- ISBN-13 : 978-8188071135
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Consciousness is all there is. So “who” is to know or seek “what”? All there is is the impersonal functioning of Consciousness, or God, reflecting within It self the totality of manifestation. Live life making decision and accepting the consequences as if you have free will -- knowing it is Consciousness seeking, doing, living deciding...Ramesh Balsekar is an awakened sage whose long life has been devoted to Ramana Maharshi and whose final Guru was Nisargadatta Maharaj. He perfectly reflets both East and West-born and raised in Bombay, India, thinking and speaking in English, student of Sanskrit and translator of the Bhagavad Gita, intimately familiar with the Taoist and Chan classics as well as the new paradigm (Consciousness is all there is) which has emerged from quantum mechanics. Poignantly clear and precise and delightfully, humorous, his teaching makes life simple.
Specification:
- Publisher : Zen Publications
- By : Ramesh S. Balsekar
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2010
- Pages : 184
- Weight : 240 gm.
- Size : 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-10 : 8188071617
- ISBN-13 : 978-8188071616
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Calm Is Greater Than Joy describes how the man of understanding lives his life without the sense of separation (without seeing the manifestation as the face of an enemy). The Sage is in perfect harmony with whatever happens in the manifestation. He is able to use his working mind because the ‘me’ mind, the thinking mind, has merged into the Heart. Here four renowned Masters describe how they are able to live in samsara (in the eye of the storm) in total peace without isolating themselves. Their calm is quite contagious because the mind in them has stopped creating problems; they have no issues either with God or with the society they live in.
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- Publisher : Zen Publications
- By : Sajohn Daverly
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2012
- Pages : 395
- Weight : 120 gm.
- Size : 5.8 x 1.1 x 9 inches
- ISBN-10 : 8188071978
- ISBN-13 : 978-8188071975
Description:
Although Pandu’s son Arjuna was widely known as one who in combat could single-handedly fight and defeat 1,000 opposing warriors simultaneously, he was twice traumatized and brought to his knees on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. The first time was upon seeing countless loved ones eager for bloodshed on both sides of the impending fray. The second was upon discovering that his own charioteer, a bosom friend since adolescence, could not only speak about the experience of awakening to one’s true nature, but could also provide the experience of beholding the infinite form of the one universal Self. Complete with word-for-word transliteration, this new presentation of India’s timeless spiritual classic illuminates many subtle details which readers may find themselves either relishing for the very first time, or revisiting with a new level of penetration and appreciation.
“More than just beautifully translating the Gita, Sajohn Daverly sublimely transmits the mystery of awakened life in human circumstances. We can read his translation of this ancient, divine text and find it alive in our own hearts, here, today.”
- Gangaji, spiritual teacher and author of The Diamond In Your Pocket
“This Gita is a real gem because it builds a bridge between the traditional approach and the very contemporary one, bringing the ancient teaching to life and making it relevant to the modern reader.”
- Adyashanti, spiritual teacher and author of Falling Into Grace
“Sajohn’s direct knowing and immersion in the unknown gives him the unique authority to explain and clarify in scholarly terms the profound understanding linking the essential truth and alignment between Vedanta and Zen Buddhism.”
- Jon Bernie, contemporary Zen teacher and author of Ordinary Freedom
Specification:
- Publisher : Zen Publications
- By : Ramesh S. Balsekar
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : Marathi
- Edition : 2012
- Pages : 70
- Weight : 120 gm.
- Size : 8.3 x 5.1 x 1.2 inches
- ISBN-10 : 8188071943
- ISBN-13 : 978-8188071944
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Ashtavakra Says: You are not the body which is composed of the five elements. You are that Consciousness which has provided the inert body with the sentience that makes the senses function I regard to their objects. It is sentience which makes the psychosomatic apparatus work as a unit. Anticipating the query from his intelligent disciple, the guru tells him further, You are not the physical organism but Consciousness which works not as someone in charge of the operations of the physical organism but merely as the witness of the operations.
Specification:
- Publisher : Zen Publications
- By : Karl Renz
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2012
- Pages : 228
- Weight : 360 gm.
- Size : 5.9 x 0.6 x 8.9 inches
- ISBN-10 : 8188071854
- ISBN-13 : 978-8188071852
Description:
Am I - I Am is an assortment of delectable snippets from various talks of Karl Renz - talks which Karl often refers to as ‘Living Words’.
These ‘Living Words’ are best described in Karl’s own words as those “without a speaker, having no direction, are not teaching, give no advice and do not want anything from you.”
This, simply put, is the heart of the book.
all you can say about the phenomenon named ‘Karl’ is that the words that emanate from him are a relentless destroyer of all concepts - from the cosy to the profound. Using his livewire humour and trademark wordplay, Karl edges you so far beyond your pet concepts that at some point you may just find that ‘you’ have fallen off into the void.
An enigmatic feature of Karl’s words is that they are utterly bereft of intent or strategy. And surprise! Something which otherwise would have been deemed fit to be dismissed as mindless prattle, has quite the opposite effect in this case - of making one want for more and never having enough of it!
This spontaneous barrage of Kail’s words, steeped in carefree-ness and intentionless-ness, can be more destructive to ‘whatever that can be destroyed’ than any conceivable tool of destruction. So, go ahead and enter this vortex of Absolute churning at your own risk - ‘you’ may or may not get out!
In this study, the author discusses the sadhana presented by the Bhagavatapurana and this is essentially the bhaktimarga, the way of love. After some preliminary remarks about the Puranas in general and the Bhagavata-purana in particular, the author attempts to describe the sadhaka (man as a pilgrim), the sadhya (God as the Supreme Lover), and the sadhana (bhakti as the universal and the most effective way to attain God). The book then draws the attention of the reader to the possible obstacles he may encounter in his spiritual journey, while at the same time assuring him that the guidance of a good guide, the fellowship of other devotees and some other aids will assist him in his pilgrimage. Love is not only the way, but also the goal (prayojana), and hence the study concludes by presenting moksa as sa-prema-bhakti-yoga, that is a union of loving devotion, between God and man, Bhagavan and his bhakta. Printed Pages:248.
About the Author:
Subhash Anand (b. 1943) is professor of Hindu Philosophy and Religion at Jnanadeep Vidyapeeth, Pune. Besides two books: The Local Church and Inculturation (1985), and Major Hindu Festivals: A Christian Appreciation (1991, rep. 1993), he has published numerous articles in journals.
Description
Mahatma Gandhi needs no introduction. An icon revered by millions across the world, he led a country to freedom through methods and principles never used before. What was it about Gandhi that made him an icon? How did a frail, ordinary man bring about a revolution? And how did he manage to rope in the poor, the working class, the elite and the intelligentsia to work together?
In this one-of-a-kind self-help book, Virender Kapoor analyses Gandhi’s methods and derives leadership lessons from his life, explaining how readers can successfully employ these in their own lives. He reveals how Gandhi carefully analysed situations—the precursor of SWOT analyses—before formulating the best way to deal with them. It was thus that he formulated the idea of Satyagraha. He also shows that Gandhi understood the power of emotional appeal, and used sincerity rather than empty rhetoric to maximize on this. In other words, he ‘walked the talk’. These and other strategies by Gandhi provide important lessons for leaders of any era, in any capacity. The key, he reveals, is to adapt, rather than adopt, Gandhi’s philosophy in action.
Inspirational yet relatable, Leadership: the Gandhi Way is a unique take on the Mahatma.
AUTHOR OF THE BOOK
Virender Kapoor is a thinker, an educationist and an inspirational guru. An alumnus of IIT Bombay and the former director of a prestigious management institute under the Symbiosis umbrella, he is currently the founder-director, president and chief mentor of Management Institute for Leadership and Excellence (MILE), Pune. His books on emotional intelligence, leadership and self-help have been translated into several regional and foreign languages.
Specification
- Product Code : BK8716
- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- Edition : August 1, 2014
- Pages : 136
- Weight : 120 gm.
- Size : 5.1 x 0.3 x 7.8 inches
- Binding : Paperback
- Author : Virender Kapoor
- Language : English
- ISBN-10: 8129134578
ISBN-13: 978-8129134578
Description
Hinduism is such that no single Book can cover the whole gamut of its vastness. This Book, compact and precise makes an attempt to cover many little known areas of Hinduism.
The vastness of Hinduism and some aspects of Indian culture have been systematically put together in this compact book. It talks about the revered gods and goddesses of the Hindu pantheon. It tells us why Krishna is blue, why the cow is sacred, why have Hindu gods been depicted with several arms and so on.
Specification
- Product Code : BK8701
- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- Edition : January 1, 2003
- Pages : 154
- Weight : 630 gm.
- Size : 9.2 x 0.5 x 9.2 inches
- Product Code : Hardcover
- Author : Dharam Vir Singh
- Language : English
- ISBN-10: 8129100355
ISBN-13: 978-8129100351
Specification:
- Publisher : Indica Books
- By : James Mallinson
- Cover : Paperback
- Edition : January 1, 2001
- Pages : 80
- Weight : 100 g.
- Size : 6.8 x 4.6 x 0.3 inches
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 8186569227
- ISBN-13 : 978-8186569221
- Product Code : BK14260
Description:
Where the Ganges and the Jamna meet people from many, many, different traditions of Hinduism come together. There will be many genuinely holy men, some charlatans, and some obscurantists. But the majority of those who come to bathe in the Sangam will be villagers. The Kumbh is an awe-inspiring demonstration of simple piety and a clear example of the power of myth.
Of course, the Kumbh Mela is a magnificent spectacle too. Millions of people gathered in one place, colourful holy men, naked sadhus, wondrous feats of asceticism, piety on a scale unparalleled anywhere else. But much more than a spectacle, the Kumbh Mela is an experience, an experience for which we have to shed our certainties and our self-confidence to be able to capture its meaning through the power of the imagination.
About Author:
Mark Tully was born in Calcutta and educated in England. He spent over twenty years of his life as BBC Delhi Correspondent and covered many of the major events in South Asia, including the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Indian Emergency, the trial and hanging of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Operation Blue Star, the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, the destruction of the Ayodhya Mosque, and the Bhopal gas disaster. After leaving the BBC he continued to live in Delhi with his partner Gillian Wright and work as a freelance broadcaster, journalist, and writer. He has now written four books on India.
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- Publisher : Indica Books
- By : James Mallinson
- Cover : Paperback
- Edition : 2017
- Pages : 399
- Weight : 350 g.
- Size :
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 8186569936
- ISBN-1 3: 978-8186569931
- Product Code : BK14259
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The Khecharividya of Adinatha, a Sanskrit text dated to pre-1400 ce, teaches khechari-mudra, one of the most important exercises of hatha-yoga, in which the tongue is inserted above the palate in order to drink the amrita or nectar of immortality dripping from the top of the skull. It is said to bestow immortality, the ability to remain in deep meditation for long periods and the power of flight upon its practitioners. The text has been edited for the first time and has never before been accessible to an English-speaking readership. It is accompanied by an introduction and an extensively annotated translation. The author has drawn on twenty-seven Sanskrit manuscripts and original fieldwork amongst yogins in India to demonstrate how earlier tantric yogic techniques developed and mutated into the practices of hatha-yoga. The work sheds new light on the development of hatha-yoga and explains its practices.
About Author:
James Mallinson has a BA and DPhil in Sanskrit from Oxford and an MA in South Asian ethnography from the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has spent several years living with sadhus and yogins in India, has translated five volumes of Sanskrit poetry for the Clay Sanskrit Library and two yoga texts for YogaVidya.com. He is currently teaching Sanskrit at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and preparing a monograph on the texts and practitioners of traditional hatha-yoga.
Specification:
- Publisher : Indica Books
- By : Rudrani Fakir
- Cover : Paperback
- Edition : May 30, 2005
- Pages : 534
- Weight : 750 gm.
- Size : 8.5 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 818656957X
- ISBN-13 : 978-8186569573
- Product Code : BK14258
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The reality of modernization and globalization has produced rapid and major changes on the physical and mental landscapes of everyone — often, those most affected see the most deleterious effects. The Goddess and the Slave stands amidst such a people, informed by their age-old wisdoms, and examines the reality of these changes from this grass-roots perspective.
Drawing upon the rich inter-connected levels of meaning within the Fakir culture, especially with respect to the living, breathing paradigmatic Mother — as Nature, as the Goddess to be worshipped and as the mother whose service is her identity — The Goddess and the Slave demonstrates the crisis faced by the unique Baul-Fakir sadhana, by the non-urban Bengali, and by Indian society itself. Standing within the Fakir knowledge paradigm, it examines the effects of development and modernization, of changing identities and realities, of the distortions caused by new needs and attitudes infused into traditional lifestyles and social structures. Rudrani Fakir, as an anthropologist and as a practitioner, uses the Fakir shadhona as a critical tool of understanding, and thereby gives an informed voice to a rich culture within a society in the throes of transition, presenting this objective study through her highly engaged subjective perspective. The result is a cohesive insight into the paradoxical roles of the Mother, and, thereby, into our societies and environments.
The first part of this book outlines the Fakir society and esoteric shadhona, and describes the reception of diverse modern influences into the lives and practices of Fakir men and women. The second part delves into the decline and decay of the eality of the Goddess, the changing status of women and of the true nature of wealth, and draws together the threads of the old knowledge paradigms — esoteric and modern, spoken and wordless, powerless and empowered. Finally, it offers heuristic paradigms, in the form of the Goddess herself, for a different type of thought, wherein the lethal results of fragmented discourse make way for a fruitful engagement — a utopia of realism — of humanity both of and within nature.
About Author:
Rudrani Fakir, born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1955, studied Medical Anthropology at the Bobigny School of Medicine (1997) and received her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology on intersecting economic-religious problems of gender in rural Bengal (EHESS, Paris, April 2004). Before engaging herself in a decade of fieldwork in rural Bengal and Bangladesh, she worked as a UN interpreter as well as a consultant for local development missions with the OECD. She has also been professionally active as a musician, as well as with the promotion of early musical traditions in Europe. Her previous publications include Fakir, la quite dun Baul musulman (Paris, 2000).
Specification:
- Publisher : Indica Books
- By : Panditaraja Jagannatha
- Cover : Paperback
- Edition : July 2, 2007
- Pages : 130
- Size : 6.9 x 4.8 x 0.3 inches
- Language : English
- Weight : 120 gm.
- ISBN-10 : 8186569626
- ISBN-13 : 978-8186569627
- Product Code : BK14256
Description:
Ganga signifies not just a mere stream of water but it stands for the numerous streams of Indian culture, the evolution and the eternal continuity of Indian civilization and the power to redeem the fallen. The visible Ganga is a flow of water, from the point of view of faith and philosophy she is the Goddess Makarasanastha, and at the transcendental level she is considered to be Saccidananda-svarupa Brahmadravarupini
Ganga Lahari is the most known poem in praise of Ganga. Panditaraja Jagannatha, displaying his immense scholarship and mastery of Sanskrit, wrote this stotra, presented here in Sanskrit, English and Hindi, which has become a symbol of the love of Indian culture for this river-goddess.
Specification:
- Publisher : Indica Books
- By : Selina Thielemann
- Cover : Paperback
- Edition : 1 January 1997
- Pages : 290
- Weight : 600 gm.
- Size : 8.7 x 5.8 x 1 inches
- Language : English
- ISBN-13 : 978-8186569016
- ISBN-10 : 8186569014
- Product Code : BK14255
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Dhrupada is the oldest genre of north Indian vocal music, referred to by Indian musicians and music scholars with high respect as the fundamental style, the ancient and most sacred genre — the quintessence of north Indian art music. Despite its key function in the music history, dhrupada has assumed the role of a museum piece within the rich and colourful tradition of Hindustani classical music. Having been the predominant style at the Mughal court of Akbar in the second half of the sixteenth century, dhrupada suffered continuous decline from the seventeenth century onwards. The tendency started changing only by the middle of the present century when musicians, music scholars and other responsible individuals in India and abroad initiated various activities for the revival of the dhrupada genre. One of the few family traditions who maintained the art of dhrupada singing to the present day is the Mallik tradition associated with the royal court of Darbhanga in northern Bihar. It was founded by two brothers named Radhakrisna and Karttarama around the middle of the eighteenth century. Being among the main exponents of dhrupada of the present, along with the Dagars, the Darbhanga tradition is continued today in two lineages. The most senior living musician of the Darbhanga gharana is Pandit Vidur Mallik of Vrindaban.
The present book offers insights into a variety of aspects of dhrupada performance in Darbhanga style, with focus on the branch of Pandit Vidur Mallik, and including research papers, interviews, and transcriptions of both traditional and modern dhrupada compositions of this tradition. After Indurama Srivastava’s book Dhrupada: A Study of Its Origin, Historical Development, Structure and Present State (published in 1980), the present account is the second book on the subject of dhrupada to be published in English, and it is at the same time the first comprehensive account of dhrupada in the Darbhanga tradition. With the publication of this book, the author wishes to pay tribute to her musical teacher Pt. Vidur Mallik, and to pay her respects to Shri Shrivatsa Goswami, the academic director of Sri Caitanya Prema Sansthana in Vrindaban, for his tireless support for the promotion of dhrupada.
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- Publisher : Indica Books
- By : Anuradha Banarji
- Cover : Paperback
- Edition : 2010
- Pages : 138
- Weight : 200 gm.
- Size :
- Language : Hindi
- ISBN-10 : 8186569979
- ISBN-13 : 978-8186569979
- Product Code : BK14249
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- Publisher : Indica Books
- By : Kesava Misra
- Cover : Paperback
- Edition : January 1, 2006
- Pages : 114
- Weight : 150 gm.
- Size : 7 x 4.6 x 0.3 inches
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 8186569588
- ISBN-13 : 978-8186569580
- Product Code : BK14248
Description:
The Tarkabhasa or “Exposition of Reasoning” of Keshava Mishra is an elementary treatise on the Nyaya system. It explains, in brief, the main tenets peculiar to that system, along with certain other details which that system subsequently borrowed from the sister system of the Vaisheshikas. Pt. Ganganatha Jha chose this work for translation because of its freedom from the intricate polemics that make many Nyaya works repellent to the ordinary student. This translation will serve as an introduction to the study of more abstruse works: the Bhashya of Vatsyayana and the Varttika of Udyotakara, which constitute the chief and original authority for the Nyaya.
About Author:
Keshava Mishra, the writer of this work, is believed to have lived between ce 1344 and 1419 in Mithila (north Bihar).
Specification:
- Publisher : Indica Books
- By : John Grimes
- Cover : Paperback
- Edition : January 1, 2007
- Pages : 182
- Weight : 270 gm.
- Size : 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
- Language : English
- ISBN-13 : 978-8186569658
- ISBN-10 : 8186569650
- Product Code : BK14230
Description:
Is there a truth, somewhere, which is so certain that no .reasonable individual could doubt its veracity? The excitement of this quest comes from the scent of freedom. Both Shankara and Heidegger erect a “metaphysics of experience” upon the pillars of Being, Truth, and Freedom. “Metaphysics is concerned with a theory of reality while a “metaphysics of experience” is a quest for Being qua Being. The comparative study of religion and philosophy will find that these two unique thinkers resonate together in an uncanny way even if they eventually come to different conclusions.
Shankara is the Indian master of this quest par excellence. His elucidation and insight into Being is unparalleled. As well, Heidegger is the Western philosopher who has come the closest to thinking Being in terms other than the terms of the “categories of beings”. In fact, he may be the first Western philosopher to do so since the pre-Socratics.
About Author:
John A. Grimes received his B.A. in Religion from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Madras in Indian philosophy. He has taught at universities in India, Canada, Singapore, and the United States. His book publications include: The Vivekacudamani: Sankaras Crown Jewel of Discrimination; A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy; Ganapati: Song of the Self; Problems and Perspectives in Religious Discourse: Advaita Vedanta Implications; Sapta Vidha Anupapatti: The Seven Great Untenables; and The Naiskarmyasiddhi of Suresvara: A Monograph. He currently spends his time between California and Chennai.
Specification:
- Publisher : Indica Books
- Edition : 30 May 2008
- Pages : 454
- Weight : 800.
- Size : 22.3 x 2.7 x 14.8 cm
- Cover : Hardcover
- Auther : John Grimes
- Language : English
- ISBN-10: 8186569804
ISBN-13: 978-8186569801 - SKU: BK14175
Description:
"This new and revised third edition presents a comprehensive dictionary of Indian philosophical terms, providing the terms in both Devanagari and Roman transliteration along with an English translation. It offers special meanings of words used as technical terms within particular philosophical systems. It contains etymological roots and the meanings of terms fundamental to epistemology, metaphysics, and practical teachings of the heterodox and orthodox schools of Indian philosophy. Cross-referencing has been provided and various charts are included that provide information regarding relationships, categories, and sourcebooks relevant to the individual schools.
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- Publisher : Indica Books
- Edition : 30 May 2008
- Pages : 454
- Weight : 800.
- Size : 22.3 x 2.7 x 14.8 cm
- Cover : Hardcover
- Auther : John Grimes
- Language : English
- ISBN-10: 8186569804
ISBN-13: 978-8186569801 - SKU: BK14175
Description:
"This new and revised third edition presents a comprehensive dictionary of Indian philosophical terms, providing the terms in both Devanagari and Roman transliteration along with an English translation. It offers special meanings of words used as technical terms within particular philosophical systems. It contains etymological roots and the meanings of terms fundamental to epistemology, metaphysics, and practical teachings of the heterodox and orthodox schools of Indian philosophy. Cross-referencing has been provided and various charts are included that provide information regarding relationships, categories, and sourcebooks relevant to the individual schools.
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Specification:
- Publisher : Indica Books
- Edition : 30 May 2008
- Pages : 454
- Weight : 800.
- Size : 22.3 x 2.7 x 14.8 cm
- Cover : Hardcover
- Auther : John Grimes
- Language : English
- ISBN-10: 8186569804
ISBN-13: 978-8186569801 - SKU: BK14175
Description:
"This new and revised third edition presents a comprehensive dictionary of Indian philosophical terms, providing the terms in both Devanagari and Roman transliteration along with an English translation. It offers special meanings of words used as technical terms within particular philosophical systems. It contains etymological roots and the meanings of terms fundamental to epistemology, metaphysics, and practical teachings of the heterodox and orthodox schools of Indian philosophy. Cross-referencing has been provided and various charts are included that provide information regarding relationships, categories, and sourcebooks relevant to the individual schools.
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Specification:
- Product Code: Book665
- Edition : 2012
- Pages : 289
- Weight : 350
- Size : 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
- Cover : Paperback
- Author : T.R. Srinivasa Ayyangar, Pandit Subrahmanya Sastri
- Language : English
- ISBN : 8170591929, 978-8170591924
- Publisher : Theosophical Publishing House
Description:
About the Book
Saundarya-lahari is a beautiful poem with spiritual, mythical and tantric principle intricately women into it. It consists of a hundred and three hymns in praise of the Goddess Tripurasundari. The first forty-one stanzas are referred to generally as the Ananda-lahari (the Ocean of Spiritual Bliss), while the second part gives its name to the whole book. The highest forms of worship envisaged by the Vedic seers are far above the level of many. Therefore, other suitable forms of worship have been formulated. One such is the Sri Vidya, worship of the Supreme in its feminine aspect. In this text, Sri Samkaracarya expounds that worship in its pristine purity.
Introduction
THE Saundarya-lahari, 'the Ocean of Beauty', eminently shares the characteristics of (i) a poem displaying the finest touches of poetical fancy, (ii) a Stotra, hymn, in praise of the Goddess Tripurasundari, (iii) a series of Mantra-s, mystic formulae, to be used by the Upasaka along with the corresponding Yantra-s, diagrams, wherein the Devi is to be conceived as abiding, and (iv) an exposition of the Agama-s and Tantra-s, bearing on the worship of the Supreme Being in Its aspect of the Sakti, Creative Energy, known as the Sri- vidya, embodying the underlying principles of Vaidika-dharma and as such having the sanction of the Veda-s. In its first forty-one stanzas it encompasses the Ananda-lahari, the Ocean of the Blissfully Sublime. AS the very names and the design of the two parts indicate, it points, on the one hand, to the way of approach to the Paramatman, attainable only through true spiritual devotion and knowledge of the real nature of the Paramatman, supplemented by the successful accomplishment of the highest Yoga of Nirvikalpa-samadhi; on the other hand, it leads in effect to the merging of the Jivatman of the Upasaka into the non-differentiated Brahman, so exquisitely expounded in the Upanisad-s and other authoritative works dealing with the Monistic ideal of the Vedanta, through the worship of the qualified Brahman, so well portrayed in Stotra-s, Agama-s, Tantra-s, Purana-s and the Karma-kanda, thus typifying Nirgunopasana through Sagunopasana in essence. A unique feature or the Sanatana-dharma of the ancient Rsi-s of this Punya-bhumi of ours, which has enabled this time-hallowed system of theirs to endure through the ages, consists in the fact that it is elastic and comprehends systems adapted to the capacity, idiosyncrasy and stage of development attained by the various classes of persons owing allegiance to it, from individuals on the highest to the lowest rungs of the ladder of spiritual evolution. The highest forms of worship envisaged by the Vedic Seers of yore stand far above the ken of the vast majority, for whose delectation suitable forms of worship of Visnu, Siva, the Sakti and other Vedic deities have been elaborated by the large number of Agama-s, Tantra-s, Purana-s, Itihasa-s, etc., all within the ambit of the Vedic ideal. and these have cap- tured the imagination of these classes and continue to hold sway over their minds even to the present day. One of such forms of worship is the Sri-vidya, the worship of the Supreme Being in Its feminine aspect of the Sakti. Creative Energy. which embraces two forms: (i) the Internal. meant for the more advanced. assuming the character of worship of the Supreme Being in the aspect of Siva conjoint with the Sakti, at the various centres of energy of the human body. passing through various stages on to the highest. eschewing all rituals and ceremonies; and (ii) the External. intended for the less evolved. assuming the form of worshipping Yantra-s inscribed on the Bhurja leaf. gold and other metallic plates. coloured linen or slabs. to the accompaniment of the repetition of particular Mantra-s made up of the Matrka-s. with appropriate gestures. postures. facing of particular cardinal points. offerings of Dhupa, Dipa, Naivedya, etc. - all with a view to acquiring special psychic powers. gratification of specific desires. etc. of the Upasaka, The former. known as the Samaya-marga, is based on the Samhita-s of the Subhagama-pancaka, the works of five great Seers, and does not in any way, run counter to Vedic principles. The latter, known as the Kaula-marga and dealt with in the sixty-four Tantra-s, although primarily intended for the worship of the Devi, has in course of time afforded scope for the inclusion of vulgar practices (Vamacara) smacking of Kapalika and Ksapanaka usages, appealing to the venal side of human nature and exercising a demoralizing influence on the votaries to an extent not countenanced by the Veda-s, These unwholesome features of the Sakta cult began to weigh on the minds of high-souled reformers of the type of Samkara-bhagavatpada, who soon opened a crusade against such practices by expounding the sublime truths of the Samaya-marga in their writings and preachings, with a view to uphold the beautiful methods of the Samaya doctrine and supplant the ugly features of the Kaula-marga, Hence this work is appropriately called the Saundarya-lahari, the Ocean of Beauty, washing out in its torrent the filth accumulated in the Kaula-marga and restoring the purity of the Sri- vidya in relation to its external forms and ceremonies. In this laudable attempt he seems to have been ably served, in a later generation, by Laksmidhara and Bhaskararaya, two celebrated scholars and stalwart mystics acquainted with the inner working of the worship of the Sri-vidya, in their commentaries on several works relating to it. Laksmidhara's zeal for the preservation of the Samaya-marga in all its purity and for the reform of the Kaula-marga is so great that he even steps beyond the province of a mere commentator and differs from the author of the original work in matters of detail, where he thinks his own personal experience of the recondite practices warrants him to do so.