Philosophy Books

Specification:

• 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
  

Description:

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!

Specification:

• Publisher : Zen Publications
  
• By : Ramesh S. Balsekar
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2000
  
• Pages : 125
  
• Weight : 270 gm.
  
• Size : 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches
  
• ISBN-10 : 8188071579
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8188071579
  

Description:

since retiring as president of the Bank of India, has been teaching Advaita (non-duality) for over twenty years to seekers from around the world. He has also written a number of books on Advaita. In the conversations in this book Ramesh points to the ‘intrinsic closeness’ between modern physics, Hinduism and Buddhism in their similar recognition of the ‘Unbroken Wholeness’ of the manifest universe. In the context of his concept of how life happens, Ramesh answers the question: “What is it that distinguishes a sage from an ordinary person?” His answer: “A sage enjoys the shanti (peace) of nirvana while living his life in the samsara of dukkha (misery).” In the conversations Ramesh opens the way to freedom from bondage to the conceptual universe.

Specification:

• Publisher : Zen Publications
  
• By : Ramesh S. Balsekar
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2010
  
• Pages : 215
  
• Weight : 270 gm.
  
• Size : 8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8188071609
  
• ISBN-10 : 8188071609

Description:

In this book Ramesh reveals himself as a spiritual Master for the modern age. His insightful commentary unlocks the beauty and the mystery in this ancient text. He points us to the Understanding that is the true nature of us all.

Specification:

• Publisher : Zen Publications
  
• By : Francis J Padinjarekara
  
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2009
• Pages : 316
  
• Weight : 500 gm.
• Size : 5.3 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8188071319
  
• ASIN : 8188071315
  

Description:

your life is running smoothly or you are in the midst of major changes -- this book is for you.

The deep understanding of human nature, the warmth and compassion of the author, Francis J. Padinjarekara, shine out from every page and every story he tells.

These stories are challenging. Intriguing, amusing and transforming. They show a path towards personal growth and self-realisation without judgments or do’s and don’ts.

Those who are familiar with the stories and writings of ANTHONY DE MELLO, will recognize in these pages, a depth wisdom and lightness that make THIS BOOK a continuation of his INSPIRATIONAL teachings. This could be a thoughtful gift for friends and a valuable beside companion.

One of the visitors asked: “How is it, that in the same circumstances of life, some people live a constricted existence limited mostly to their work and family, while others enjoy far richer lives?”

“Birds soar high and far in freedom as their wings make it possible,” the sage replied/ “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s awareness.”

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.

Specification:

• Publisher :  Indica Books
• By :  Stefano De Santis
• Cover : Hardcover
• Edition : 1 January 1995
• Pages : 485
• Weight : 500 gm.
• Size : 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186117040
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186117040
• Product Code: BK14210

Description:

The present work is an important contribution towards understanding the cultural environment in which the corrupts of man and nature were conceived in ancient India. This study has two principal objectives:
1. To provide to the intellectuals presently involved in the search for a new “ecological” ethics a set of information regarding the traditional Indian conceptions of man and nature.
2. To review the philosophical values on which Hinduism is based from a viewpoint which in has intense intellectual and emotional resonance in the understanding of the present generation of university students.
Since the author explains the ancient ideas from a perspective which has contemporary relevance, the book has the rare virtue of presenting the Hindu philosophical systems in a style which is clearly intelligible even for neophytes. At the same time his scholastic review of esoteric topics like the “Psychology of Samkhya” a and the “Cosmology of Shaivism” makes the book a significant reading also for authorities on Indology.

About Author:

Stefano De Santis was born in Rome in the year 1957. By profession a cultural anthropologist, he has worked in India for more than five years as a development consultant for projects which aim at preserving the cultural and natural heritage while improving the economic standard of the people. “At a certain point of my life I realized that I could not understand the cultural values of Indian tradition without a deep study of the Hindu philosophical schools.” So for five years he left his anthropological fieldwork in the rural areas and went to study at Banaras. There he took his second doctorate at the Banaras Hindu University with a research on “The Relationship Between Man and Nature”. He also directed the documentary film “Into Our Nature”, produced by SociecoS for the Indian Television, which was telecast in different countries and made his field of research popular to a wider international audience.

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 : Chetana Books
• By : Anthony Kirk
• Cover : Hardcover
• Language : English
• Edition : 1984
• Pages : 400 pages
• Weight : 800 gm.
• Size :  9 x 6 x 1 inches
• ISBN-10 : 8185300127
• ISBN-13 : 978-8185300122
• Product Code : BK14278

Description:

Though in the Preface to the first edition the author Anthony Kirk (Nina Kisch in real life)did not claim any credit for this work and was even a bit apologetic about it, there is not the least doubt that Rabboni is a unique addition to the existing Christian literature. In it the author ushers the reader in the presence of the most amazing being that ever walked the earth and acted as the Divine Potter to shape receptacles of glory out of the common clay of human nature. For this is what Jesus the Christ did.

The author has projected distinct images of Jesus and his Apostles,described their day-to-day life, their trials and tribulations and has shown how they remained totally uncorrupted in the midst of falsehood and tyranny all round. The spiritual development of the Apostles in the hallowed association of the Master is beautifully delineated in this work.

The story of Jesus is charmingly narrated in a manner almost Biblical in its simplicity and grandeur

Specification:

• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : S. Durai Raja Sigam
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition :  2001
• Pages : 170
• Weight : 250 gm.
• Size : 7.1 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569214
• ISBN-10 : 8186569219
• Product Code : BK14269

Description:

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1947-76) was one of the best minds that India has produced in the twentieth century. Son of a Tamil father and an English mother, his life was a living example on how to build bridges between Eastern and Western cultures.
By profession an art critic and a museum curator, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy was also a masterful exponent of metaphysics. As much at home with Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas as with Shankara and the other Vedic commentators, familiar with the Scriptures of all the main religions and proficient in many languages, he used to teach metaphysical principles by explaining the symbolism of traditional works. In his writings Coomaraswamy never displays his vast knowledge for the sake of mere erudition, but rather uses his amazing scholarship for a well-crafted plan: to show that below the endless variety of art forms and traditional beliefs a common thread runs deep — the acceptance of the sacred as the ultimate means to validate the multiplicity of everyday experience.
This book is a compilation of quotations from his works and letters, and it constitutes a good introduction to his thought. His theories are here applied to concrete situations, related to the problems of modern India, and could still suggest a third way to avoid both the traps of modern technocracy and the temptation of fundamentalism. It should not surprise us that his views are still relevant to the present situation: his opinions are rooted in truths that are neither political nor historical, neither ideological, or simply religious, nor even merely intellectual. They are rather related to that inner wisdom that embraces, without crushing it, all the distinctiveness of human experience.

Specification:

• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Frithjof Schuon
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : December 1, 2010
• Pages : 173
• Weight : 300 g.
• Size : 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569535
• ISBN-10 : 8186569537
• Product Code : BK14268

 

Description:

Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) is acclaimed as the greatest authority of the twentieth century on the subject of comparative religions. The Transcendent Unity of Religions is a testimony to life as a holistic and sacred phenomenon. Every religion can be likened to a ray of light, emanating from the Divine Source. To transcend religious differences, Schuon explains, we must explore the esoteric nature of the inward-turned spiritual path. On this journey, we can trace the brilliant ray of illumination back to the Divine Oneness that is the basis of all religions. "Superlative ... the most powerful statement of the grand, or better, primordial, tradition. It is original in incorporating what our age for the first time demands: that religion be treated in global terms."--Huston Smith

Specification:

• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Osborne
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : 1 December 2011
• Pages : 164
• Weight : 200 g.
• Size : 6.9 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13: 978-9381120002
• ISBN-10: 9381120005
• Product Code: BK14264

Description:

Arthur Osborne found that while academics investigated the causes of historical incidents, their research was limited, for the most part, to obvious physical causes, but they failed to clarify the overarching but hidden principles that, in his eyes, governed actions and made history. In this book he suggests a different approach to history, giving its due importance to spiritual ideas and teachers, and proposing that ideas shape the physical conditions of society more than the other way round. In his own words:
“The purpose of the present book is not so much to suggest any new philosophy or interpretation of history as to draw attention to a rhythm that runs through it, establishing parallels and coincidences large and obvious enough not to be open to dispute. These will be sufficient at least to show that history is not purely haphazard and yet is also not simple progress.”
Arthur Osborne observed that so-called progress was not what it appeared to be and that modern civilization is not necessarily an advance on the discoveries and understanding that ancient civilizations had garnered and demonstrated in their development. He outlined the parallels — not be confused with uniformity — in the different phases through which the great civilizations of mankind passed. In the eighteenth century there was a radical divergence between the West and East, which is being overcome by the surging of a single world civilization.

About Author:

Arthur Osborne (1906-70) is best known for his book Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge, one of the first books to make known to the world the south Indian sage Sri Ramana Maharshi, to whom Arthur Osborne devoted the last part of his life. 

Specification:

• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : R. Torella 
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : 1 December 2011
• Pages : 267
• Weight : 500 g.
• Size : 21.6 x 14.2 x 2.3 cm
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186569960
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569962
• Product Code : BK14263

Description:

India’s progressive emergence on the world stage, in terms unimaginable just a few decades ago, obliges us to reconsider its image as nurtured by the West for over two thousand years: a prestigious image maybe, but also greatly reductive, as the privileged home of occult knowledge, ecstasy and asceticism, or — quite the opposite — of fabulous riches and voluptuous pleasures. Rather than getting to know India, the West has preferred to dream of it: one result has been that Indian thought, albeit unanimously celebrated as the seat of the highest wisdom, has not been granted even the smallest place on the great stage of the history of philosophy.
This book presents the thought of pre-modern India first and foremost by outlining the cultural parameters within which it arose and developed, and should be read; often associated with religious experience, but also essentially independent of it; sometimes differing in form and outcome, but more often very close to Western thought, and certainly never “alien”.
“This is a marvellous piece of compact insight in all respects: a summary as well as a fresh view of the whole area, always sound and based on first hand experience with the material. I really mean it when I would like to call it the best modern survey of our field at an extraordinary high level of penetration.”
—Prof. Ernst Steinkellner, University of Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences

About Author:

Raffaele Torella is professor of Sanskrit at University of Rome “Sapienza”, where he has also taught for long Indian Philosophy and Religion, and Indology. His preferred fields of research are Kashmir Shaivism, linguistic speculation, Buddhist epistemology and manuscriptology. Among his main publications, there is the first critical edition and annotated English translation of Utpaladeva’s Ishvarapratyabhijna-karika and Vritti, the fundamental theoretical work of Pratyabhijna philosophy and of Hindu Tantrism as a whole (MLBD, Delhi 2002); the Italian translation of the Shivasutra with Kshemaraja’s commentary (Milan 1999); Eros and Emotions in India and Tibet (Einaudi, Turin 2007; in Italian). He has been the scientific responsible and co-author of the section “Science in India” in the multivolume work History of Science (Rome 2002; in Italian). Along with Bettina Bäumer, he has recently organized the first International Workshop on Utpaladeva at Indian Institute for Advanced study in Shimla (2010).

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.

Specification:

• 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

Description:

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

Description:

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 : Mahaprabhu Aghoreshwar Baba Bhagwan Ram
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : January 1, 2012
• Pages : 413
• Weight : 450 gm.
• Size : 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186569669
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569665
• Product Code : BK14253

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The Aghoris believe that their tradition was started by Shiva himself, and was propounded further by Jagadguru Dattatreya. Baba Kinaram (1563-1714), a very renowned saint in Banaras, revived the tradition.
The followers of the Aghora path try to cultivate a state of mind and social practice totally non-discriminatory. Seeing the Divine in everything and everybody, they transcend all category distinctions, all prescriptions and proscriptions of the “normal” social structure such as high and low, purity and pollution, pure and impure, or male and female.
In the twentieth century, Aghoreshwar Mahaprabhu Baba Bhagwan Ram (1937-92) was the greatest avadhut in the Aghora tradition. He had an overwhelming spiritual quest ever since his infancy, and attained enlightenment at the age of fourteen or fifteen. He thus became an Aghoreshwar, the highest of all spiritually realized saints in the Aghora tradition, a walking, talking deity, Shiva incarnate. People felt that Baba truly loved everyone who went to him. His life was no longer for his own self; he lived for those who came to him. Hundreds of thousands of devotees, simple villagers, spiritual seekers and high dignitaries would flock around him.
In the holy city of Banaras Baba laid the foundation of Shri Sarveshwari Samooh in 1961, an organization to fight social evils like leprosy, dowry and illiteracy. To fulfil hese goals, Baba started an ashram and a leprosy hospital by the name of Awadhut Bhagwan Ram Kusht Sewa Ashram (The Awadhut Bhagwan Ram Leprosy Service Ashram) at Parao, Varanasi.
Baba’s teachings were imparted more through everyday conversations rather than through sermons. On his advice, his words were compiled into a book that will have the essence of all his messages. Thus was written Aghor Vachan Shastra in Hindi and the present book, its English translation.
Baba Bhagwan Ram is credited to have changed the place that Aughar ascetics occupy in society. While earlier they were regarded as being, literally, on the social fringe, inhabiting cremation grounds, today they have become a part of the mainstream of religious life in Banaras and elsewhere, using the powers of their spiritual practices for social benefit.

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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

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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.

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Keshava Mishra, the writer of this work, is believed to have lived between ce 1344 and 1419 in Mithila (north Bihar).

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• 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

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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.