Category: Hinduism

By Lyne Bansat-Boudon

The Paramārthasāra, or ‘Essence of final Reality’, is a piece of the Kashmirian polymath Abhinavagupta (tenth–eleventh centuries). it's a short treatise during which the writer outlines the doctrine of which he's a extraordinary exponent, specifically nondualistic Śaivism, which he designates in his works because the Trika, or ‘Triad’ of 3 rules: Śiva, Śakti and the embodied soul (nara).

The major curiosity of the Paramārthasāra is not just that it serves as an creation to the verified doctrine of a practice, but in addition advances the idea of jiv̄anmukti, ‘liberation during this life’, as its center subject. extra, it doesn't confine itself to an exposition of the doctrine as such yet from time to time tricks at a moment feel mendacity underneath the obvious feel, specifically esoteric options and practices which are on the center of the philosophical discourse. Its commentator, Yogarāja (eleventh century), excels in detecting and clarifying these quite a few degrees of that means. An advent to Tantric Philosophy provides, in addition to a seriously revised Sanskrit textual content, the 1st annotated English translation of either Abhinavagupta’s Paramārthasāra and Yogarāja’s commentary.

This ebook should be of curiosity to Indologists, in addition to to experts and scholars of faith, Tantric stories and Philosophy.

By Andrew J. Nicholson

By Stephen Jacobs

Understanding Hinduism this day calls for an figuring out of the way it's practised within the modern international. Stephen Jacob's new creation tackles those critical concerns, starting with case reports of the grassroots perform of Hinduism in India and in diaspora communities.
He covers problems with singular value within the sleek research of Hinduism, together with the significance and position of mass media to this basically orally transmitted faith. different significant components coated comprise the concept that of Hindu dharma, rather with regards to caste, gender and Hindu nationalism, key and infrequently arguable thoughts in Hinduism.

By Pratima Mitchell

This can be a really good new sequence of well-told, fantastically illustrated biographies with dramatic, evocative illustrations on each web page. every one ebook tells the tale of a impressive individual from the prior, whose identify and achievements have lived on a ways past their very own time. full of life, narrative textual content by way of expert storytellers, this vibrant, photo publication sort art will stimulate the mind's eye and linger within the reminiscence. It contains overseas variety of characters. every one has a timeline and index for simple reference. The biographies hyperlink in with nationwide Curriculum KS1 and KS2. teenagers love an outstanding tale. What larger solution to introduce them to the giants of our earlier than via those pleasant books? The titles within the sequence were selected to hide quite a lot of characters and to have either nationwide and overseas charm.

By Georg Feuerstein

This evaluation of the necessities of Yoga is intended to either expand and deepen the certainty of starting scholars. It covers all of the uncomplicated components of this historical self-discipline and philosophy of India—including Yoga poses, nutrition, breath keep watch over, meditation, mantras, Kundalini power, and extra. it's also newly translated excerpts from the scriptures and will pay particular recognition to branches of Yoga, reminiscent of Tantra, which are of serious curiosity to Western scholars yet are usually misunderstood.

By Sondra L. Hausner

In this relocating ethnographic portrait of Hindu renouncers―sadhus or ascetics―in northern India and Nepal, Sondra L. Hausner considers a paradox that shapes their lives: whereas ostensibly outlined via their solitary religious perform, the stripping away of social commitments, and their holiday with family members and neighborhood, renouncers in reality frequently engage with "householder" society. They shape a particular, replacement group with its personal inner constitution, yet person who isn't really situated in any unmarried position. hugely cellular and dispersed around the subcontinent, its contributors are usually introduced jointly via pilgrimage circuits on competition cycles. Drawing on a long time of fieldwork, Hausner provides intimate images of person sadhus as she examines the shared perspectives of house, time, and the physique that create the floor for daily event. Written with a rare mix of empathy, compassion, and anthropological perception, this research will attract students, scholars, and normal readers alike.

By Barbara Hand Clow

A nationally identified astrologer explores the relationship among non secular emergencies at age 30, forty, and 50 and key astrological passages of Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron.

• offers strategies for guiding the kundalini strength published in the course of planetary passages for optimum own and psychic improvement.

• contains charts for beginning years beginning in 1930 in order that readers can ensure the timing in their planetary passages.

• via Barbara Hand Clow, writer of the bestselling Pleiadian Agenda (60,000 copies sold).

Kundalini--the strength of eros that lies on the base of the spine--can be overwhelming as soon as activated. instances of activation coincide with the main astrological passages of Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron in one's delivery chart and are usually skilled as classes of non secular emergency, confusion, and imbalance.
In Liquid mild of Sex, Barbara Hand Clow opens up new dimensions for knowing what happens in the course of those key existence passages, which so much folks adventure thrice in our lives. within the author's phrases, "we form at age 30, we transform at age forty, and we transmute at age 50." concentrating on the transformation at age 40--the time of imbalance and non secular confusion also known as the "midlife crisis"--she explores how kundalini strength, the liquid mild of intercourse, should be creatively channeled via unblocking the chakras. providing potent equipment for reaching actual, emotional, and non secular development in this vital lifestyles passage, Liquid gentle of intercourse offers a roadmap for utilizing celestial cycles to navigate definitely and productively in instances of serious existence switch.

Book Description:

Fruit-Gathering by way of Rabindranath Tagore.

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; Fruit-gathering

About the Publisher:

Forgotten Books is a writer of old writings, equivalent to: Philosophy, Classics, technological know-how, faith, Esoteric and Mythology. www.forgottenbooks.org

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By Swami Bhaskarananda

This booklet offers basically written motives of the fundamental rules and practices of Hinduism and its tradition. It solutions such a lot of questions—Do the Hindus worship many gods? Are the Hindus idol worshippers? what's the function of existence? What are Hinduism's religious practices?—and so on, protecting the main mundane to the main profound principles and questions of Hinduism.

Here are the manager riches of greater than 3,000 years of Indian philosophical thought-the old Vedas, the Upanisads, the epics, the treatises of the heterodox and orthodox platforms, the commentaries of the scholastic interval, and the modern writings. Introductions and interpretive commentaries are provided.